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COLONEL  SAMUEL  C.  LAWRENCE 


THE 

FIFTH    REGIMENT 

MASSACHUSETTS 
VOLUNTEER  INFANTRY 

IN    ITS  THREE   TOURS   OF   DUTY 

1861, 

MIM?**' 

By    ALFRED    S.  ' 

A  veteran  of  the 


REGIMENTAL  COMMITTEE  ON  HISTORY 

WILLIAM   C.  BATES,   Chairman          GEORGE   E.    MITCHELL,  Secy,  and  Treat. 

EDWIN   F.    WYER  JAMES   H.    GRIGGS 

EPHRAIM   A.    HOWE 


Published   by  the 

Fifth  Regiment  Veteran  Association 
Boston,  Massachusetts 


JOHN  B.  FROTHINGHAM   (K) 

IN  THE  PARADE,  APRIL  19,   1911,  BOSTON 

WITH  UNIFORM  AND'EQUIPMENTS 

OF  FIFTY  YEARS  BEFORE 


The  Blanchard  Press 

Worcester,   Mass. 


PREFACE. 

Next  to  his  Bible,  the  average  veteran  of  the  Civil  War 
prizes  the  record  of  his  services  in  behalf  of  the  Union  and  in 
freeing  the  slave.  Massachusetts,  recognizing  this  very  nat 
ural  trait,  has  generously  proclaimed  her  willingness  to  assist 
in  the  publication  of  histories  of  the  several  organizations  that 
contributed  to  the  salvation  of  the  nation  and  thereby  the  good 
of  humanity,  so  that  already  considerably  more  than  one  half 
of  her  regiments  have  histories  more  or  less  complete.  When 
the  call  of  President  Lincoln  came  in  April,  '61,  it  found  the 
Fifth  Regiment  as  anxious  to  respond  as  those  which  were  first 
notified;  the  members  of  the  Fifth  accounted  themselves  true 
minute-men,  and  the  alacrity  with  which  they  repaired  to  Bos 
ton  when  the  bugle  was  sounded  for  them  was  ample  proof  of 
their  devotion  and  preparedness;  the  firing  upon  Sumter  found 
Colonel  Lawrence  and  his  men  eager  for  the  ordeal.  Those  dis 
posed  to  examine  the  three  rosters  of  the  regiment  in  its  several 
tours  of  duty  will  find  that  very  few  names  appear  in  each  one 
of  these  lists,  hence  the  obvious  fact  that,  while  bearing  the 
same  regimental  name,  in  reality  there  were  three  different 
organizations,  though  the  continuance  of  officers,  both  field 
and  line,  along  with  a  very  few  enlisted  men,  together  with  the 
nominal  connection  with  the  military  arm  of  the  Common 
wealth,  amply  warrants  the  application  of  the  numeral  5 
to  each  organization. 

In  telling  the  several  stories,  care  is  taken  to  keep  close  to  the 
regiment;  only  as  much  is  told  of  other  bodies  and  events  as  may 
be  necessary  to  make  clear  the  services  of  those  who  called 
themselves  "  The  Fifth."  As  a  rule,  the  nearer  we  keep  to  the 
individual  the  more  entertaining  is  found  the  narrative.  The 
Roster  becomes  a  series  of  brief  biographies  of  all  those  who 
constituted  the  rank  and  file  of  the  regiment,  thus  assuming 
somewhat  the  form  and  character  of  a  roll  of  honor.  Probably 
less  than  a  fifth  part  of  all  the  men  belonging  can  ever  see  their 
names  in  these  lists,  but  the  same  may  be  a  source  of  satisfac 
tion  to  descendants  and  friends  as  well  as  to  the  general  public 
that  will  ever  revert  to  this  period  of  the  nation's  life  as  one 
of  its  exhibition  of  true  chivalry. 

In  sending  forth  this  record  of  soldierly  life,  thanks  are  due 
to  very  many  people  who  have  been  exceedingly  helpful  in 
every  stage  of  its  preparation.  Much  information  was  gleaned 
from  the  histories  of  some  of  the  cities  and  towns  represented 
in  the  regiment,  also  from  the  brief  recital  of  the  Fifth's  career, 
put  forth  in  1879  by  Frank  T.  Robinson,  and  the  History  of  the 
Richardson  Light  Guard,  besides  the  Report  of  the  Adjutant- 


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general  for  the  year  1861.  In  addition  to  these  printed  sources 
of  knowledge,  the  writer  has  received  great  help  from  the  sev 
eral  members  of  the  Publication  Committee,  the  sudden  death  of 
whose  chairman,  Comrade  Bates,  was  a  serious  loss  to  the  work; 
Edwin  F.  Wyer  as  a  member  of  the  three  bodies  has  been  able 
to  furnish  invaluable  aid  through  his  recollections  of  men  and 
events;  George  E.  Mitchell,  in  securing  data  from  others  and  in 
narrating  his  visit  to  North  Carolina,  has  contributed  greatly 
to  the  success  of  the  history;  while  E.  A.  Howe,  Esq.,  through 
his  long  service  as  Secretary  of  the  Veteran  Association  of  Co. 
I,  has  been  able  to  make  the  vital  records  of  the  three  compa 
nies  thus  designated  more  complete  than  any  other  in  the 
book.  Also,  the  same  connection  rendered  it  possible  for  him 
to  secure  a  larger  number  of  subscriptions  than  are  credited  to 
any  other  company,  nor  should  this  enumeration  close  without 
an  expression  of  gratitude  to  Gen.  S.  C.  Lawrence,  the  late 
Fred  A.  Newell  (G,  100  days),  James  C.  Melvin,  brother  of  Asa 
Melvin  (G,  3  mos.),  Fred  B.  Rice,  son  of  Lieut.  Wm.  B.  Rice 
(E,  100  days),  Geo.  E.  Marsh  (C,  9  mos.),  G.  H.  Sampson  (F, 
9  mos.),  H.  E.  Marion  (G,  9  mos.),  C.  W.  Bartlett  (A,  100 
days),  Chas.  Brigham,  H.  W.  and  Ward  M.  Otis  (all  of  K,  9 
mos.),  John  Brown  (C,  3  mos.),  whose  generosity  set  the  pro 
ject  of  a  history  on  a  solid  foundation.  The  kindness  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  Massachusetts  Veteran  Association  is  appre 
ciated  in  the  loan  of  certain  North  Carolina  cuts.  While  obli 
gation  is  felt  towards  all  who  helped  in  any  way,  this  is  partic 
ularly  true  of  those  who  furnished  letters  recalling  their  expe 
riences  in  the  long  ago;  thus  in  the  Three  Months'  Service, 
Lieut.  H.  P.  Williams  (F),  Jos.  J.  Giles  (I)  ;and  the  friends  of 
Lieut.  Chas.  Bowers  and  the  Bros.  E.  S.  and  E.  L.  Wheeler,  all 
of  G,  contributed  freely,  while  Geo.  W.  Nason  (I)  kindly  loaned 
many  of  the  cuts  that  adorn  the  book. 

Nine  Months'  Service. — Valuable  aid  was  rendered  by  E.  C. 
Mann  and  Jos.  Sinclair,  both  of  "  B  ";  Geo.  E.  Marsh  of  "  C  "; 
V.  Wallberg  and  Wm.  A.  Hardy,  both  of  "  D";  Darius  Baker, 
A.  B.  Comey  and  B.  F.  Wyman,  all  of  "  E";  H.  G.  Wesson,  war 
letter  of  C.M.  Kimball,  the  diaries  of  E.  G.  Champney  and  Mil 
ton  Moore,  all  of  "  G  ";  and  the  extended  account  of  his  expe 
rience  furnished  the  Hudson  Enterprise  by  E.  A.  Perry  (I) . 

One  Hundred  Days'  Service. — For  letters,  data  and  recol 
lections,  thanks  are  due  C.  S.  Clerke  (A);  A.  H.  Drown,  C.  W. 
Libby  and  H.  W.  Woodbury,  all  of  "  D  ";  J.  F.  Whiting  (E), 
E.  A.  Clapp  (F);  Clarence  Littlefield,  T.  V.  Sullivan,  H.  E. 
Marion,  all  of  "G";  W.  W.  Wood,  J.  H.  Sawyer  (I);  M.  J. 
Ferrin  and  F.  M.  Sweetser,  both  of  "  K." 

ALFRED  S.  ROE. 


THREE  iMONTHS'  SERVICE. 
Preliminary. 

"  The  rising  of  a  people  is  one  of  the  rarest  and  most  mar 
velous  prodigies  presented  in  the  annals  of  humanity." 
These  words  of  Count  Agenor  de  Gasparin  in  his  "  Uprising 
of  a  Great  People,"  published  just  as  the  war-clouds  were 
bursting,  had  their  full  realization  when  Abraham  Lincoln 
sent  forth  his  call  for  75,000  troops  for  the  purpose  of  sup 
pressing  armed  rebellion.  The  demand  upon  Massachusetts 
for  soldiers  was  met  with  the  utmost  enthusiasm,  since  the 
militia  of  the  Commonwealth  for  months  had  been  waiting 
anxiously  to  march  towards  the  theatre  of  action.  Obedient 
to  that  message  from  U.  S.  Senator  Henry  Wilson,  "  Send 
on  1,500  men  at  once,"  received  on  the  loth  of  April,  1861, 
men  of  the  Third,  Fourth,  Sixth  and  Eighth  regiments  came 
pouring  into  Boston  with  the  utmost  speed.  Each  day  marked 
a  forward  step  towards  the  foe;  the  16th  saw  the  ranks  com 
plete,  the  17th  witnessed  their  departure,  the  18th  the  con 
tinued  advance,  and  the  19th  the  shedding  of  the  first  blood 
in  Baltimore.  It  was  while  their  brothers  were  battling  in 
Maryland's  Monument  City  that  orders  came  for  the  mem 
bers  of  the  Fifth  Regiment  to  report  in  Boston.  So  ready  were 
they  to  comply  that  by  the  next  day,  the  20th,  the  organi 
zation  was  prepared  to  depart.  The  same  orders  directed 
the  assembling  of  the  Third  Battalion  and  of  the  First  Bat 
tery,  so  that  the  eventual  numbers  from  Massachusetts,  in 
response  to  the  first  call  of  the  President,  amounted  to  more 
than  3,700  men,  far  in  advance  of  the  original  demand.  Large 
as  the  number  appears,  it  was  only  a  fraction  of  the  militia 
strength  of  the  Commonwealth.  That  very  efficient  branch 
of  the  public  service,  under  the  wise  direction  of  Governor 
Nathaniel  P.  Banks,  Jr.,  had  grown  to  15,000  effective  men, 
a  very  small  part,  it  is  true,  of  the  immense  aggregate  fur- 


8  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

nished  by  the  Bay  State  for  the  war,  less  than  one  tenth,  yet 
a  considerable  force  for  people  devoted  to  mechanical  and 
commercial  pursuits  to  maintain  in  times  of  peace. 

That  war  was  imminent,  nearly  every  thoughtful  American 
believed;  the  length  of  its  continuance  extended  from  the 
"  sixty  days  "  of  Secretary  Seward's  opinion  to  the  years 
which  others  assigned  to  its  duration.  Earth  and  air  seemed 
to  be  inflammable,  so  much  so  that  the  merest  spark  were 
enough  to  start  a  conflagration.  April  16th,  the  bark  "  Man 
hattan,"  from  Savannah,  Georgia,  Captain  Davis,  reached 
her  Boston  wharf,  573  Commercial  Street;  hearing  the  news, 
Captain  Davis  hoisted  a  flag  bearing  fifteeji  stars  and  a 
rattlesnake.  It  was  not  long  before  the  emblem  was  dis 
covered  and  the  people  began  to  gather,  and  the  cry  soon  arose, 
"  Who  put  it  there?"  "  I  did,"  said  the  Captain,  who  was 
walking  the  deck,  "  and  I  mean  to  keep  it  there."  As  the 
throng  continued  to  increase,  the  officer  retreated  below  and 
the  crew  hauled  down  the  obnoxious  ensign,  fearing  that 
the  multitude  might  harm  the  vessel.  No  sooner  did  the  flag- 
touch  the  deck  than  the  crowd  jumped  aboard  and  in  a  mo 
ment  tore  the  "  rattlesnake  rag  "  into  a  hundred  pieces. 
That  Captain  Davis  soon  learned  discretion  was  evident  in 
a  letter  from  him  to  Governor  Andrew,  dated  April  18, 
wherein  he  disavowed  any  disaffection,  "  in  consequence  of 
the  unfortunate  use  of  a  southern  flag  as  a  private  signal. 
I  desire  as  an  earnest  of  my  loyalty  to  tender  my  ship  as  a 
transport  to  convey  men  or  munitions  of  war  to  any  port 
within  the  United  States."  To  this  contrite  note  he  affixed 
his  name  and  office,  "  Francis  B.  Rice,  Master  and  Owner 
of  the  Bark  'Manhattan.'" 

The  same  day  in  which  Bostonians  objected  to  the  public 
display  of  emblematic  rattlesnakes,  the  steamer  "  South  Caro 
lina,"  that  had  left  Boston  for  Charleston,  April  6th,  came 
back  unexpectedly.  She  had  put  into  Norfolk,  Va.,  on  account 
of  stress  of  weather,  and  there  learning  the  condition  of  pub 
lic  affairs,  landed  her  passengers  and  steamed  north  again. 


APRIL,  '61.  PRELIMINARY.  9 

It  was  in  these  fiery  times  that  Major,  afterwards  Major 
General,  Burnside,  being  in  New  York  city,  being  asked 
how  much  time  he  needed  for  preparation,  replied  instantly, 
11  One  minute,"  and  the  world  knows  that  he  led  the  First 
R.  I.  V.  M.  to  Washington.  "  My  son,"  said  another  New 
Yorker,  to  his  son  and  namesake,  "  I  would  rather  give  a 
thousand  dollars  than  have  you  go  to  Washington  soldier 
ing."  The  boy  replied  kindly  but  decidedly,  "Father,  if  you 
could  make  it  $100,000  it  would  be  of  no  use,  for  where  the 
Seventh  Regiment  goes,  I  go." 

It  was  a  time  when  men  as  well  as  vessels  had  to  show 
their  colors,  and  many  who  had  gained  a  reputation  for 
southern  sympathies  hastened  to  set  themselves  right  with 
the  public.  George  Lunt,  associate  editor  of  the  Boston 
Courier,  certainly  not  conspicuous  for  devotion  to  military 
measures,  on  the  17th  of  April  found  room  in  his  columns 
for  a  noted  poem  of  his  own  writing,  though  not  written  for 
the  occasion.  The  stanzas  were  those  of  "  My  Country, 
Right  or  Wrong."  Originally  uttered  by  the  brave  Decatur, 
the  poet  had  made  them  the  burden  of  his  ringing  words. 
Notwithstanding  the  hardship  attending  separation,  would- 
be  soldiers  were  given  fervent  "  Godspeeds  "  by  their  loving 
wives,  though  one  man,  rushing  in  and  bidding  his  helpmeet 
prepare  for  him  his  shirts  and  undergarments,  along  with  a 
lunch,  that  he  might  be  off  at  once,  was  told  that  she  would 
do  nothing  of  the  kind,  thinking  thus  to  deter  his  going  alto 
gether.  "  Well,  then,  I'll  go  without  them,"  shouted  the 
excited  militiaman;  and  go  he  did,  intentionally  or  other 
wise  omitting  to  kiss  his  loving  other  half  his  accustomed 
"  goodbye."  She  was  heartbroken,  and  he  was  not  out  of 
sight  before  she  set  to  work  to  collect  his  needed  apparel 
and  to  prepare  the  best  she  was  capable  of  making  as  a  peace- 
offering  on  the  following  day.  Burdened  with  her  load  of 
food  and  clothing,  she  appeared  at  the  entrance  of  Faneuil 
Hall  and,  making  known  her  errand,  was  soon  enfolded  in 


10  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

the  embrace  of  her  forgiving  spouse  and  became  quite  the 
heroine  of  the  hour  as  her  deeds  became  known. 

Banks,  business  firms  and  individuals  were  constantly 
tendering  the  loan  of  money  for  the  public  weal,  and  the  legis 
latures  of  all  loyal  states  made  large  appropriations  that 
their  citizen  soldiers  might  go  forth  adequately  equipped. 
So  far  from  there  being  any  shrinking  from  the  duty  that 
impending  war  imposed,  there  was  a  friendly  rivalry  on  every 
hand  as  to  who  should  first  reach  the  recruiting  office.  The 
uniform  and  place  of  the  militiaman  commanded  a  premium 
with  very  few  ready  to  accept  the  offer.  In  the  single  case 
where  a  captain  had  declined  to  order  out  his  company,  an 
immediate  disbanding  was  the  penalty,  the  men  proceeding 
at  once  to  reorganize  and  to  proffer  their  services  in  their 
new  capacities.  Though  they  were  not  accepted  then,  nearly 
or  quite  all  soon  found  their  way  into  the  service  of  their 
country. 

While  not  included  in  the  summons  which  had  sent  their 
fellows  forward,  the  soldiers  of  the  other  organizations  in  the 
Commonwealth  were  confident  that  they  would  soon  be 
called  for,  and  in  a  veritable  sense  were  all  of  them  in  a  state 
of  feverish  expectation.  Consciously  or  not,  each  man  seemed 
to  have  the  Latin  words,  Semper  Paratus,  graven  deep 
upon  his  mind  and  he  literally  slept  upon  his  arms.  Nor 
were  his  promptings  vain,  for  the  19th  of  April  carried  from 
the  State  House  General  Schouler's  order  for  Colonel  Samuel 
C.  Lawrence  to  report  with  his  Fifth  Regiment  for  duty. 
This  was  the  welcome  call  for  which  hundreds  of  ears  had 
been  listening  eagerly.  So  far  as  their  presence  in  Boston 
was  concerned,  the  men  were  ready  to  march  the  day  follow 
ing,  but  were  detained  till  the  21st  for  a  supply  of  clothing, 
etc.  To  the  authorities,  in  view  of  the  lack  of  equipment 
sufficient  for  all,  it  seemed  best  to  separate  the  regiment  and 
to  send  the  second  section  when  prepared.  The  thought  was 
to  send  forward  the  left  wing  under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Dur- 
rell  Greene,  and  Colonel  Lawrence  with  the  right  would  fol- 


APRIL,  '61.  PRELIMINARY.  11 

low  when  ready.  The  young  Colonel  hastened  to  head 
quarters  to  protest  against  such  division  of  his  command. 
"  No  provision  has  been  made  for  so  many  men  at  supper,  " 
he  was  told.  "  My  men  would  prefer  to  stay  together  and 
live  on  crackers  and  water  than  be  separated,"  was  his 
earnest  reply.  Taken  at  his  word,  he  went  back  to  the  hall 
and,  on  reporting  his  errand,  \vas  enthusiastically  endorsed 
by  the  men  while  the  band  played,  "  Hail  to  the  Chief." 
The  order  for  separation  was  countermanded  by  the 
Governor. 

|£f All  of  the  ten  companies  which  constituted  the  Fifth  Regi 
ment  in  this  first  service  were  not  originally  of  that  organi 
zation.  To  the  companies  of  the  Fifth  from  Concord,  Somer- 
ville,  Medford  and  the  two  from  Charlestown.  were  added 
two  from  Salem,  one  each  from  South  Reading  and  Haver- 
hill  (all  of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  M.  V.  M.),  and  the  single 
company  from  Boston  which  Captain  Wardwell  had  raised 
to  take  the  place  of  the  disbanded  company  in  Chelsea.  While 
the  several  companies  had  numbers  sufficient  from  various 
cities  and  towns  to  warrant  calling  the  organizations  by  such 
town  or  city  name,  men  came  from  all  parts  of  eastern  Massa 
chusetts,  though  principally  from  Essex,  Middlesex  and  Suf 
folk  counties.  While  the  same  spirit  actuated  all  parts  of 
the  Commonwealth,  the  scenes  in  the  several  localities  merit 
their  own  special  descriptions.  For  convenience,  the  follow 
ing  tabulation  is  given,  stating  regiment,  company,  locality, 
and  commander  in  every  case: 

The  Fifth  Regiment. 

Company  A,  Concord,  Capt.  Prescott. 
Company  B,  Somerville,  Capt.  Brastow. 
Company  D,  Charlestown,  Capt.  Swan. 
Company  E,  Medford,  Capt.  Hutchins. 
Company  H,  Charlestown,  Capt.  Boyd. 


12  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

The  Seventh  Regiment. 

Company  B,  Salem,  Capt.  Peirson. 
Company  E,  So.  Reading,  Capt.  Locke. 
Company  H,  Salem,  Capt.  Danforth. 
Company  G,  Haverhill,  Capt.  Messer. 
Company  — ,  Boston,  Capt.  Wardwell. 

In  the  merging  of  the  Fifth,  Seventh  and  the  newly  organ 
ized  company,  the  new  designations  of  letters  mingled  the 
respective  bodies  in  a  manner  entirely  regardless  of  former 
regimental  relation. 

COMPANY  A. 
(Salem.) 

The  first  letter  of  the  alphabet  fell  to  that  Salem  company 
(Co.  B  of  the  7th)  long  known  as  the  Mechanic  Light  In 
fantry.  With  a  single  exception,  it  had  been  continuously 
organized  longer  than  any  other  company  in  the  regiment. 
Formed  Feb.  26,  1807,  it  first  paraded  July  4th  of  that  year, 
under  the  command  of  Capt.  Perley  Putnam,  a  family  name 
well  remembered  in  New  England.  The  gallant  officer  sur 
vived  until  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  and  he  was  privileged  to 
make  the  address  in  presenting  to  the  company  a  beautiful 
silk  flag  on  the  day  of  its  departure,  the  20th,  for  Boston. 
Eighty-four  years  of  age,  his  life  linked  the  War  of  the  Revo 
lution  with  that  of  the  Rebellion.  As  there  were  more  men 
in  the  company  than  the  regulations  allowed,  some  had  to 
drop  out,  much  to  their  regret.  Assembling  at  their  armory 
at  7  a.m.  on  the  20th,  they  reported  for  duty  at  Faneuil 
Hall  at  10  o'clock. 

COMPANY  B. 
(South  Reading,  now  Wakefield.) 

Organized  October,  1851,  the  charter  of  the  Richardson 
Light  Guard  bears  date  the  2d  day  of  the  month  and  is 


APRIL,  '61.  COMPANY  C.  13 

signed  by  George  S.  Boutwell,  Governor  and  •Comimuider- 
in-Chief.  When  the  noon-day  orders  of  the  19th  of  April 
were  received,  the  company  was  lettered  "  E  "  in  the  Seventh 
Regiment,  but  here,  as  often  elsewhere,  a  change  of  name 
made  no  difference  with  the  object  itself.  As  early  as  Jan. 
18,  1861,  in  response  to  a  letter  of  inquiry  from  the  Governor 
as  to  how  many  were  ready  to  respond  to  a  call  to  arms,  the 
twenty-three  men  present  were  unanimous  in  their  answer, 
"  Yes."  From  that  date  onward,  there  was  a  constant  look 
ing  forward  to  the  summons,  which  came  at  12.30  of  the  19th, 
the  day  made  famous  in  1775,  Colonel  Lawrence  directing 
Captain  Locke  to  report  with  his  company  in  Boston  forth 
with.  To  the  music  of  ringing  bells  and  the  firing  of  guns, 
the  men  responded  with  such  alacrity  that,  at  2.30  o'clock, 
eighty-seven  men,  rank  and  file,  marched  from  the  armory  to 
the  Common.  With  equal  zeal  and  haste,  the  citizens  had 
there  prepared  a  collation,  of  which  the  soldiers  partook 
hurriedly,  and  then  proceeded  to  the  railroad  station  for 
addresses  and  good-byes.  The  speakers  were  Edward  Mans 
field,  Hon.  Lilley  Eaton,  P.  C.  Wheeler,  the  Rev.  E.  A. 
Eaton  and  others,  prayer  being  offered  by  the  Rev.  D.  W. 
Phillips.  It  was  about  4  o'clock  when  the  company  boarded 
the  cars  and  was  off  for  Boston,  through  whose  streets, 
escorted  by  the  Maiden  Brass  Band,  and  accompanied  by 
many  South  Reading  citizens,  the  men  marched  to  Faneuil 
Hall,  spending  the  night  in  the  drill-hall  of  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company. 

COMPANY  C. 
(Charlestown.) 

The';  Charlestown  Artillery  (Co.  D  of  the  Fifth  until 
this  reorganization)  was  first  chartered  in  1786,  but,  suffer 
ing  a  lapse,  was  begun  again  in  1831,  and  was  known  as  one 
of  the  famous  military  bodies  of  the  State.  So  near  does 
the  Bunker  Hill  City  lie  to  Boston,  quite  as  near  then  as  now, 


14  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

that  whatever  is  current  in  one  place  is  equally  common  in 
the  other,  so  that  the  going  away  of  earlier  regiments  had 
given  an  unusual  degree  of  expectancy  to  the  Charlestown 
"  boys."  For  more  than  twenty-four  hours  the  company 
had  been  ready  to  march  on  the  tap  of  the  drum,  and  on  the 
19th  it  did  cross  over  the  Mystic  and  take  its  place  with 
others  in  the  Cradle  of  Liberty. 

COMPANY  D. 
(Haverhill.) 

The  Haverhill  Light  Infantry  (Co.  G'  of  the  7th),  gener 
ally  known  as  the  Hale  Guards,  was  organized  in  1853,  re 
ceiving  its  name  from  the  Hon.  E.  J.  M.  Hale,  a  very  prom 
inent  business  man  of  the  city.  Orders  for  the  march  of 
the  company  found  the  men  drilling,  hence  there  was  little 
wonder  that  its  four  score  men  were  in  readiness  to  march 
at  once.  They  were  accompanied  to  the  station  by  a  large 
number  of  citizens  and  were  addressed  before  going  by  the 
Rev.  R.  H.  Seeley.  One  of  the  most  interesting  items  in 
connection  with  the  leaving  of  the  company  was  the  manner 
in  which  it  was  supplied  with  a  flag.  In  those  days  every 
company  thought  it  should  be  thus  supplied,  forgetting 
that  it  was  the  regimental  colors  on  which  the  companies 
formed  and  behind  which  they  marched.  In  those  times, 
too,  bunting  was  scarce  and  starry  banners  were  not  so  com 
mon  as  they  have  become  since  the  war.  In  this  plight,  E. 
K.  Davis,  a  former  Guardsman,  one  of  the  original  company, 
though  he  had  been  transferred  to  a  Charlestown  company 
(K)  and  was  now  infusing  his  zeal  into  the  hearts  of  his  old 
Haverhill  associates,  remarked  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Daniel 
Buswell,  "  Nancy,  we  have  no  flag  and  no  war  clothes  to 
wear."  This  good  woman,  a  patriotic  seamstress,  replied, 
"  You  shall  have  a  flag,  if  I  have  to  make  one."  The  anxious 
yet  doubting  brother  said,  "  You  can't  do  it,  Nancy;  you 
haven't  time,  for  it  is  now  Wednesday,  and  we  shall  have  to 


APRIL.  '01. 


COMPANY  D. 


15 


start  Friday."  "  I'll  find  time,  if  I  have  to  work  day  and 
night;"  and  this  she  did  literally,  working  continuously  fifty-six 
hours,  with  only  two  hours  for  sleep  in  that  long  interval.  It 
was  "Stitch,  stitch,  stitch,  "  but  not  in  "poverty,  hunger 
and  dirt,"  for  in  her  own  comfortable  home  she  was  not 
repeating  the  sad  lines  of  Hood,  but  rather,  from  ribbons  of 
red,  white  and  blue,  she  was  fashioning  the  stars  and  stripes 
of  her  country's  flag  with  her  needle,  that  most  delicate  of 
weapons,  proving  it  the  fit  companion  of  sword  and  bayonet, 
and  herself  a  Haverhill  heroine,  unequaled  since  the  days 
of  Hannah  Dustin.  The  wonder  is  that  Whittier,  with  his 


16  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

rare  eye  and  ear  for  patriotic  incident,  did  not  make  Nancy 
Buswell  and  her  flag  a  companion  picture  to  "  Dame  Bar 
bara  "  and  her  "  silken  scarf  "  which  she  shakes  forth  with 
such  royal  will.* 

COMPANY  E. 
(Medford.) 

In  this  single  instance  the  letter  for  the  Medford  company, 
in  the  new  Fifth,  coincided  with  that  employed  in  the  old 
regiment.  It  was  still  Co.  E  and,  as  the  Lawrence  Light 
Guards,  carried  along  with  it  the  name  of  the  Colonel  who 
formerly  had  been  its  beloved  captain.  Organized  on  Oct.  1, 
1854,  it  had  always  been  a  popular  corps  in  the  home  town. 
Anxiously  expectant,  they  were  not  surprised  ears  on  which 
fell  the  words  of  Daniel  W.  Lawrence,  brother  of  the  Colonel, 
as  on  the  night  before  the  19th  of  April  he  rode  over  the 
precise  route  of  Paul  Revere,  eighty-six  years  before,  when 
were  heard — 

"  A  voice  in  the  darkness,  a  knock  at  the  door, 
And  a  word  that  shall  echo  for  evermore." 

The  people  of  Medford  apparently  appreciated  the  situa 
tion,  as  in  great  numbers  they  thronged  the  centre  of  the 
town  to  witness  the  departure  of  their  sons  and  brothers. 
The  gathering  soon  took  upon  itself  the  form  of  a  meeting 
in  the  Town  Hall,  and  the  Rev.  Jarvis  A.  Ames,  a  local  Meth 
odist  minister,  prayed,  "and  never  was  a  more  devout,  earnest, 
patriotic  and  Christian  prayer  sent  up  to  the  throne  of  God, 
than  fell  from  the  lips  of  that  noble  man."  This  company 

*After  many  years  of  wandering,  having  been  lost  in  the  hurly-burly 
of  war,  the  flag  came  back  to  Mrs.  Buswell,  and  she,  realizing  the  public 
nature  of  her  handiwork,  in  1894  gave  it  into  the  care  and  keeping  of  the 
local  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  in  whose  Post-hall,  its  most  interesting  souvenir,  care 
fully  preserved  under  a  locked  glass  case,  the  priceless  emblem  receives 
the  admiring  glances  of  hundreds  of  visitors  who  climb  the  stairs  for  this 
express  purpose.  The  devoted  maker  of  the  flag,  after  spending  her  de 
clining  years  in  the  Home  for  Aged  Women  in  Haverhill,  being  about  90 
years  of  age,  passed  away  Sept.  19,  1910. 


APRIL,  '61.  COMPANY  F.  17 

was  the  very  first  of  the  Fifth  to  report  on  Boston  Common 
in  the  afternoon  of  the  19th,  accompanied  by  nearly  500 
Medford  citizens  and  led  by  a  brass  band.  The  impromptu 
meeting  in  the  Town  Hall  had  resulted  in  the  subscribing  of 
more  than  $5000  for  the  aid  of  the  bereft  families,  the  Hon. 
Thatcher  Magoon  giving  $500  towards  this  meritorious  cause. 
First-Lieut.  John  G.  Chambers,  later  Adjutant,  and  who, 
later  still,  as  Lieut.-Col.  of  the  23d  Mass.,  was  to  fall  at 
Drewry's  Bluff,  received  many  tokens  of  regard  and  respect 
from  his  fellow  journalists,  among  them  a  sum  of  money 
and  a  full  equipment,  besides  a  certificate  of  a  $2000  life 
insurance  issued  upon  his  life  in  favor  of  his  wife.  Lieut. 
Wm.  H.  Pattee  had  a  month's  extra  pay  from  his  employers 
and  $80  from  others,  also  a  revolver.  "  You'll  see  me  back 
when  the  fighting  is  over,"  he  said,  "  or  not  at  all." 

COMPANY  F. 

(Boston.) 

Sometimes  called  "  Wardwell's  Tigers,"  this  was  the  only 
company  enlisted  purposely  for  the  Fifth,  taking  the  place 
of  the  Chelsea  corps  which  had  been  disbanded  through  the 
disobedience  of  its  captain;  also  it  was  said  to  be  the  first 
company  of  volunteers  to  leave  Massachusetts  raised  after 
April  15.  David  K.  Wardwell,  who  had  been  a  soldier  in 
the  Mexican  War,  received  permission  from  the  Governor, 
on  the  16th,  to  raise  a  company  of  men.  So  earnestly  did 
he  prosecute  his  task,  so  brimming  full  were  the  people  with 
patriotism,  in  less  than  two  days  his  object  was  attained, 
and  at  the  meeting  for  election  of  officers  Colonel  Robert 
Cowdin  of  the  First  Regiment  presided.  '  The  Boston 
Volunteers  "  had  become  a  reality.  During  this  period  the 
"  Hub  "  was  receiving  a  real  baptism  of  Union  fervor.  Cars, 
cabs  and  omnibuses  were  bedecked  with  flags;  the  great 
area  of  the  Boston  Theatre  had  become  a  drill-room  for 
would-be  soldiers;  Hogg,  Brown  &  Taylor  offered  to  out- 


18  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

fit  clerks  who  would  enlist,  pay  them  salaries  while  away 
and  retain  their  positions  for  them  on  their  return,  an  offer 
which  thirteen  clerks,  unnaturalized  Nova  Scotians,  accepted. 
One  of  Boston's  ladies'  schools  takes  a  vacation  for  a  week 
and  the  girls  vote  to  give  their  entire  time  to  the  making  of 
garments  for  the  soldiers;  Oliver  Ditson  &  Co.  offered  out 
fits  and  retention  of  situations  to  their  clerks,  and  when  the 
Sixth  Regiment  went  away  from  the  old  Boston  &  Wor 
cester  station,  the  newsdealer  there  gave  to  the  soldiers  his 
entire  stock  of  papers,  and  on  the  18th  the  newsmen  in  the 
Old  Colony  station  did  the  same  thing  for  the  soldiers  depart 
ing  thence.  Leopold  Morse,  Dock  Square,  offered  the  Gov 
ernor  200  pairs  of  pantaloons  for  the  men,  and  his  offer  was 
accepted.  When  the  girls  employed  in  a  book-bindery  learned 
that  one  of  the  men  laboring  with  them  had  enlisted,  they 
made  up  a  purse  of  fifty  dollars  for  his  wife.  Never  had  there 
been  such  sales  of  war  music,  though  the  call  for  "  Dixie  " 
disappeared  completely.  A  reader  of  the  Transcript  calls 
attention  to  the  following  distich  from  Mrs.  Barbauld,  the 

poet: 

"  Man  is  the  noblest  growth  our  realms  supply, 
And  souls  are  ripened  in  our  Northern  Sky." 

The  enlistment  story  of  Co.  F,  as  told  by  3d  Lieut. 
Horace  P.  Williams: 

On  the  morning  of  April  15th,  1861,  when  going  into  town, 
on  the  train  from  Brookline,  I  read  the  President's  procla 
mation  calling  for  75,000  men,  and  going  to  my  office,  16 
Congress  St.,  my  business  that  as  agent  of  the  "  Cow  Bay 
Coal  Co."  of  C.  B.  and  reading  my  mail,  I  decided  at  about 
10  a.m.  to  go  to  the  State  House  and  see  General  Schouler. 
I  found  him  in  and  said,  "  General,  I  see  the  President  has 
called;  what  can  I  do?  "  He  said,  "  Wait  a  minute;  Captain 
Wardwell  has  gone  up  to  see  the  Governor."  Soon  Wardwell 
came  in  with  an  order,  the  first  the  Governor  has  given,  after 
the  call,  to  raise  a  Company.  General  Schouler  introduced 
me  and  said,  "  Take  hold  and  help  him  to  recruit  his  Com 
pany,"  and  handed  us  a  five-year  U.  S.  Army  recruiting  blank 
and  Wardwell  and  I  started  down  town.  I  knew  of  a  vacant 


APRIL,  '61.  COMPANY  (1.  19 

office  on  Congress  Sq.,  in  the  rear  of  my  office,  and 
I  asked  Mr.  Way  for  the  use  of  it  which  he  granted. 
We  then  wrote  off  a  hand  bill:  "  Recruits  wanted 
for  the  war  at  office  in  Congress  Square/'  and  I  took  it  to 
my  friend  Dutton,  of  the  Transcript,  and  he  at  once  had 
printed  300  copies  of  it.  These  Stoddard  and  I  took  in  our 
arms  and  walked  down  and  through  the  crowds  in  State 
Street,  which  was  a  jam  of  people,  and  scattered  them  to  the 
people.  The  Captain  had  been  left  in  the  office,  and  when 
we  got  back  found  he  was  getting  signatures  rapidly  so  that 
by  1  o'clock  the  roll  had  107  names.  We  organized,  elected 
officers,  and  the  Captain  took  the  roll  to  the  State  House. 
When  lie  came  back  he  had  orders  to  dismiss  the  men  and  to 
assemble  next  morning  at  the  hall  over  the  Fitchbur^,  R.  R. 
depot. 

I  declined  being  first  or  second  Lt.,  not  being  sure  if  I 
could  arrange  my  business,  but  I  had  to  give  it  up  and  lose 
14  cargoes  of  coal  I  had  sold  to  arrive.  On  the  16th  the  Cap 
tain  and  I  drilled  these  men  all  day  in  the  school  of  the  com 
pany  and  the  first  and  second  Lts.  attended  to  raising  the 
funds  and  in  ordering  a  uniform.  The  17th  the  company  was 
ordered  to  march  to  the  State  House  and  he  and  the  Adj. 
General  inspected  and  mustered  the  men.  Andrew  made  a 
speech  and  the  men  were  furnished  with  blankets,  haver 
sacks  and  canteens  and  then  ordered  to  match  to  Faneuil 
Hall 'and  report  to  Col.  Lawrence,  as  a  part  of  his  5th  Regi 
ment.  We  reported  and  were  armed  with  Springfield  rifles  and  a 
good  uniform.  George  Lane,  the  clothier  in  Dock  Square, 
gave  each  man  a  blue  flannel  shirt;  in  the  pocket  of  each  were 
a  pocket  Testament  and  pocket  handkerchief. 

COMPANY  G. 
(Concord.) 

•  The  Concord  Artillery"  (Co.  A  of  the  old  Fifth),  organ 
ized  1804,  parading  the  first  time  July  4  of  that  year,  was 
the  oldest  body  in  the  regiment,  though  there  had  been  a 
change  in  its  drill  from  artillery  to  infantry  about  1848.  The 
name  of  this  corps  is  connected  with  the  State  House  in  an 
interesting  manner.  When  chartered,  it  was  ordered  that 
two  small  brass  field  pieces,  consecrated  to  the  memory  of 


20  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Major  John  Butt-rick  and  Captain  Isaac  Davis  and  thus 
engraved,  should  be  presented  to  the  company.  In  1846  the 
old  pair  was  exchanged  for  new  guns  similarly  engraved  and 
the  old  ones  were  placed  on  exhibition  in  Doric  Hall  at  the 
Capitol.  The  same  spirit  which  drew  the  farmers  of  75  to 
the  "  rude  bridge  which  arched  the  flood  "  compelled  their 
grandsons  to  leave  the  plough  and  workshop  and  swiftly 
form  themselves  in  ranks  of  war,  leaving  Concord  for 
Boston  at  noon  of  the  19th.  The  town  contributed  $4500 
for  soldiers'  families.  The  three  Buttricks  in  the  company 
were  said  to  be  descendants  of  the  famous  Major  who  gave 
the  first  command  for  Americans  to  fire  on  British  troops. 

COMPANY  H. 
(Salem.) 

u  Salem  City  Guard  "  (Co.  H  of  the  Seventh  in  the  old 
order)  was  formed  Nov.  14,  1846,  and  shared  with  the 
Mechanic  Light  Infantry  the  enthusiasm  which  sent  the  other 
company  out  under  the  command  of  Captain  Peirson. 
April  17th  there  was  a  great  meeting  in  the  City  Hall,  over 
which  Mayor  S.  P.  Webb  presided  and  in  which  several  thou- 
ands  of  dollars  were  subscribed  for  the  care  and  relief  of 
families  distressed  by  enlistments.  Spirited  addresses  were 
made  by  the  Mayor  and  others.  The  officers  of  the  City 
Guards  were  presented  with  handsome  revolvers  through  the 
agency  of  Geo.  -W.  Williams  of  Salem.  Leaving  their  home 
city  at  9  a.m.  of  the  20th,  the  Guards  were  soon  mingling 
with  their  fellows  in  Faneuil  Hall. 

COMPANY  I. 
(Somerville.) 

"  Somerville  Light  Infantry"*  (Co.  B  of  the  old  Fifth) 
was  organized,  October,  1853,  under  the  command  of  Captain 

*An  interesting  fact  pertains  to  the  history  of  the  Light  Infantry,  that 
from  an  unused  sum,  raised  for  the  care  of  families  dependent  on  memhers 


APRIL.  JoT. 


COMPANY  1. 


George  ().  Brastow.  In  1859,  returning  to  the  coinniand  of 
the  company,  it  was  his  good  fortune  to  be  at  the  head  of 
the  same  when  the  great  storm  began.  Premonitions  of  the 
outbreak  had  resulted  in  the  enlistment  and  retention  of  men 
who  would  be  likely  to  stick  when  the  moment  of  trial  came. 
The  call  for  the  earlier  regiments  only  made  these  men  the 
more  anxious  for  their  own  summoning  which  duly  came. 
On  the  17th  of  April  a  meeting  was  held  for  the  purpose  of 


MASSACHUSETTS 

E  MEN  1861 


.MASSACHUSETTS    MK 
HONOK-FRON'l 


UNIFORM  OF  GO'S 
B  AND   I. 


devising  means  of  properly  caring  for  the  families  of  the  men 
who  wen1  about  to  leave,  resulting  in  the  raising  of  nearly 
$5000.  of  which  $700  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  Cap- 

of  the  company,  in  the  fall  of  '63  there  was  erected  in  Somerville  the  very 
first  Soldiers'  Monument  in  Massachusetts.  Intended  at  first  as  a  memo 
rial  of  the  Infantry,  its  scope  was  extended  to  cover  all  of  the  deceased 
soldiers  from  Somerville  and,  until  the  dedication  of  the  later  monument 
in  1909.  it  was  the  city's  onlv  monumental  memorial. 


22  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

tain  Brastow,  who  with  his  company  marched  into  the 
meeting.  The  remainder  was  voted  to  be  placed  in  the 
Lechmere  Bank,  subject  to  call  as  needed.  On  Saturday, 
the  20th,  the  company  wras  drawn  up  around  the  flag-staff 
in  Union  Square,  where  the  flag  was  saluted  and  prayer  was 
offered  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Fairbanks;  next  the  men  marched  to 
the  Congregational  Church  in  Franklin  Square,  where  each 
man  was  presented  with  a  Testament  by  M.  H.  Sargent, 
who  had  already  subscribed  $100  to  the  general  fund.  Thence 
escorted  by  fully  2000  citizens  of  Somerville,  including  a 
company  of  horse,  the  march  was  made  to  Faneuil  Hall.  Manx- 
personal  tributes  were  made,  as  when  Sergeant  J.  C.  Watson, 
by  the  Boston  Board  of  Brokers,  was  given  a  fine  set  of  equip 
ments,  including  a  sword  and  revolver;  Geo.  W.  Xason,  Jr., 
a  Franklin  man,  still  a  member  of  the  company,  delivery 
clerk  for  the  Fiske  &  Co.'s  Express,  was  presented  with  a 
silver-mounted  Colts  revolver;  his  position  was  retained  for 
him  and  his  salary  was  paid  to  his  wife  during  his  absence. 
He  was  able  to  turn  in  $8000  towards  the  Government  loan, 
which,  when  the  war  was  ended,  he  received  back  again  with 
interest  at  7%.  Though  he  found  his  position  awaiting 
him,  he  held  it  only  twelve  days,  for  the  war  spirit  was  still 
on  and  he  soon  enlisted  again.  Geo.  F.  Whitcomb  was  given 
a  finely  mounted  revolver,  a  bowie-knife,  a  dressing-case 
and  a  purse  of  $50  by  his  friends. 

COMPANY  K. 
(Charles  town.) 

Alphabetically,  "  The  Charlestown  City  Guards  '"  came 
last  in  the  list.  Organized  in  1851,  it  had  been  Co.  H  in  the 
old  Fifth,  but  as  newly  constituted  it  had  the  same  men  and 
officers.  There  was  no  doubt  as  to  its  being  one  of  the  most 
popular  military  bodies  that  the  city  opposite  Boston  had 
ever  known.  Lying  so  near  Faneuil  Hall  there  was  no  diffi 
culty  in  Captain  Boyd's  being  one  of  the  early  officers  to  re- 


APRIL  19,  '61.  FANEUIL  HALL.  23 

port  there  with  a  loyal  following.  Company  Ivs  personal 
story  is  quite  as  extended  as  that  of  any  of  the  corps  consti 
tuting  the  regiment.  Wellington,  Goss  &  Co.,  Devonshire 
Street,  gave  to  one  of  their  clerks  who  had  volunteered  a 
soldier's  suit  and  a  complete  outfit,  guaranteed  his  salary 
during  his  absence  and  his  old  place,  if  he  returned,  while 
his  fellow  clerks  gave  him  a  silver-mounted  revolver.  To  both 
Charlestown  companies  the  Rev.  Abbott  E.  Kittridge  of  the 
Winthrop  Congregational  Church  gave  a  pocket  Bible  for 
every  member.  Two  men  in  the  office  of  the  Boston  Journal 
had  determined  to  go  with  their  company,  whereupon  the 
Journal  remarks,  "  A.  W.  Tibbitts  and  C.  F.  Richards  have 
concluded  to  exchange  the  '  shooting-stick  '  for  the  '  shoot 
ing-iron,'  and  may  God  preserve  them,"  to  which  pious 
prayer  the  Transcript  appends  "  Amen."  Sergt.  D.  W.  Davis 
was  presented  with  a  revolver  by  his  fellow  boarders  at  the 
National  House.  Lieut.  Walter  Everett  and  Private  B.  S. 
Drew  were  similarly  served  by  clubs  to  which  they  belonged, 
and  Eben  White  was  given  a  sum  of  money  and  an  outfit 
by  his  employers,  March  Brothers.  History  does  not  record 
the  name  of  the  young  man,  but  one  of  the  Guards  was  about 
to  be  married  and,  on  this  account,  considered  the  propriety 
of  staying  at  home,  but  he  got  his  "  right  about  face!"  from 
his  inamorata  when  she  emphatically  said,  "If  you  do, 
I'll  never  marry  you  in  the  world."  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
'  When  the  Cruel  War  was  Over,"  fulfilled  vows  led  to  years 
of  happiness.  Finally,  no  man  of  the  company  went  without 
his  revolver,  for  the  "fine"  or  honorary  members  took  care 
that  every  one  was  supplied. 

FANEUIL  HALL. 

It  was  a  happy  fate  that  had  preserved  "  The  Cradle  of 
Liberty  "  for  the  rocking  of  Liberty's  children  of  a  generation, 
far  away  from  that  which,  in  Revolutionary  days,  was  cradled 
here.  Never  did  it  seem  to  answer  better  the  purposes  for 


24  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

which  it  had  been  reserved  than  when  it  was  crowded  with  the 
vigorous  sons  of  Massachusetts,  impatiently  awaiting  the  hour 
when  they  were  to  march  hence  to  do  the  duties  of  true  sol 
diers.  The  19th  of  April,  which  saw  the  gathering  in  Boston 
of  the  several  companies  henceforth  to  be  welded  into  a  com 
pact  history  under  the  name  of  the  Fifth  M.  V.  M.,  already 
was  fragrant  with  the  memories  of  an  earlier  19th,  just 
eighty-six  years  before,  and  even  while  these  untried  soldiers 
of  the  new  regiment  are  assembling,  their  brothers  who 
departed  from  the  same  hall,  just  two  days  before,  are  fighting 
and  dying  in  the  streets  of  Baltimore,  thus,  as  it  were,  burn 
ing  yet  deeper  into  the  hearts  and  minds  of  men  the  signifi 
cance  of  April's  19th  day.  Though  the  hall  itself  and  the 
rooms  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery,  on  the  floor 
above,  are  at  the  disposal  of  the  men,  there  is  little  or  no 
room  for  drill.  Rather  is  the  time  taken  for  the  distribution 
of  uniforms  and  other  articles  of  apparel,  getting  acquainted 
with  each  other,  and  in  saying  "  good-bye  "  to  the  many 
friends  who  come  in  great  numbers,  anxious  to  see  once  more 
the  loved  one  whom,  it  is  possible,  they  may  never  meet 
again. 

Undoubtedly  there  are  men  here  who  would  quite  as  well 
have  served  their  country  by  remaining  at  home  and  caring 
for  families  dependent  upon  them.  One  Charlestown  soldier, 
in  his  early  twenties,  but  yet  a  husband  and  father,  was  with 
his  company  very  much  against  the  will  of  his  mother,  a  vig 
orous  dame  who  had  begun  life  on  the  Isle  of  Erin,  she  insist 
ing  that  it  was  his  duty  to  stay  at  home  and  look  after  "  Kitty 
and  the  baby."  "  Jim,"  however,  did  not  see  his  obligation 
in  the  same  light  and  determined  to  go  the  length  with  the 
"  boys/'  Once  within  the  sacred  walls  of  Faneuil  Hall, 
cradled  there,  as  it  were,  he  thought  himself  quite  safe  from 
maternal  interference;  not  so,  however,  reasoned  that  irate 
mother,  and  ere  long  the  young  soldier  heard  a  comrade 
shout,  "  Look  out,  Jim!  your  mother's  coming  up  the  stairs." 
What  was  a  valorous  militiaman  to  do  under  such  circum- 


APRIL  21,  761.  DEPARTURE.  25 

stances?  He  had  never  dared  disobey  her  before  and,  armed 
and  uniformed  soldier  though  he  was,  he  did  not  wish  to  begin 
then,  yet  go  he  would  with  his  company.  The  result  was  a  sur 
render  to  his  fear  of  meeting  her  who  had  rocked  his  cradle, 
and  a  masterly  retreat  was  made  through  a  quickly  opened 
window,  whence  he  could  reach  a  water  conductor  from  the 
roof  and,  sliding  down  the  same,  he  was  able  to  defy  petti 
coat  government  until  his  observing  friends  signaled  that 
the  amiable  enemy  had  herself  retreated  and  he  could  return 
to  the  hall  in  safety.  In  later  years  he  was  wont  to  remark 
that  subsequent  emotions,  when  under  fire  at  Bull  Hun,  were 
not  so  provocative  of  flight  as  were  his  when  he  heard  that 
his  mother  was  after  him  in  Faneuil  Hall. 

The  galleries  held  a  goodly  array  of  people  day  and  night, 
ever  interested  in  what  was  doing  in  the  arena  below.  Sleep 
was  quite  out  of  the  question,  for,  coming  together  with  the4 
intention  of  departing  early  in  the  evening  of  the  20th,  it 
was  evident  that  every  moment  must  be  devoted  to  the 
journey  impending.  Not  even  the  time  extended  to  the 
morning  of  the  21st  sensibly  abated  the  hum  of  preparation. 
That  final  night  made  a  lasting  impression  on  those  who  passed 
through  it.  The  Brigade  Band  furnished  music,  Governor 
Andrew  was  present  until  a  late  hour,  and  his  gayly  bedecked 
aides  were  in  evidence  throughout  the  entire  ordeal.  Once, 
at  least,  there  was  work  in  plenty  for  those  gorgeously  equipped 
officers.  Muskets  and  haversacks  were  given  out  to  the  men, 
and  as  blankets  and  knapsacks  had  not  yet  been  received, 
they  were  to  be  forwarded  in  boxes.  An  early  breakfast  was 
served  at  4:  o'clock  in  the  morning,  an  edifying  sight  to  the 
hundreds  of  people  who,  from  the  galleries,  were  determined 
to  see  their  boys  off,  not  infrequently  breaking  out  into  cheers 
at  some  unexpected  demonstration  on  the  floor  below. 

DEPARTURE. 

Daylight  was  streaming  into  the  windows  of  the  ancient 
edifice  as  line  was  formed  for  departure,  the  regiment  march- 


26  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.    THREE  MONTHS. 

ing  in  two  divisions.  The  line  itself  was  formed  011  S,quth 
Market  Street  and  with  the  1st  Division  went  the  Brigade 
Band,  while  Hall's  accompanied  the  2d.  Starting  at  5  a.m., 
the  line  proceeded  into  State  Street,  a  vast  throng  of  eager 
humanity  accompanying,  even  at  this  early  hour.  Thence 
the  regiment  marched  through  Court,  Tremont,  West,  Wash 
ington,  Beach,  Albany  and  Oak  streets  to  the  Boston  &  Wor 
cester  freight  station.  There  also  was  the  Boston  Light 
Artillery,  Captain  Asa  M.  Cook,  to  be  fellow  excursionists 
southward.  There  too,  seemingly,  was  a  large  part  of  the 
population  of  Boston,  who  had  either  stayed  up  all  night  or 
had  made  a  phenomenally  early  rising  record  for  Sunday 
morning.  The  train,  apparently  in  two  sections,  consisted 
of  nineteen  cars,  two  occupied  by  the  artillery.  There  had  been 
many  changes  in  the  original  make-up  of  the  Fifth;  for  all  sorts 
of  reasons,  men  had  been  discharged,  but  for  their  places  there 
were  many  in  waiting,  so  that  the  maximum  numbers  .were 
easily  maintained,  and  805  men  were  in  the  array  that  at 
6.50  on  this  Sunday  morning,  amidst  the  strains  of 
brass  bands  and  the  shouts  of  thousands  of  oil-lookers,  rolled 
out  of  Boston  and  took  their  course  westward.  After,  de 
scribing  the  departure,  the  Transcript  says  this  of  the  Com 
mander  of  the  Fifth:  "  Commanded  by  Colonel  Lawrence,  an 
experienced  officer  and  a  noble-hearted  man,  this  regiment 
will  shed  glory  on  the  Commonwealth  whose  honor  she  is 
ready  to  sustain." 

The  first  stop  was  at  South  Framingham,  and  early  though 
it  was,  the  people  were  earlier  out ,  open-armed  and  open- 
handed,  with  proffers  of  food  and  other  comforts  to  all  who 
would  partake.  At  Worcester  the  record  was  much  the 
same,  though  the  night  before  the  Heart  of  the  Common 
wealth  had  witnessed  the  departure  of  her  own  Third,  Bat 
talion,  under  the  command  of  Major  Charles  Devens,  for  Bal 
timore.  Palmer  gave  the  "boys'"  an  ovation,  with  hot 
coffee,  cake  and  other  substantiate,  for,  evidently,,  the,  men 
were  thought  to  be  constantly  -hungry.  Springfield  s 


APRIL  21,  Mil.  DEPARTURE.  27 

much  more  like  a  Fourth  of  July  celebration  than  a  peace 
ful  city  in  the  quiet  hour  of  church  attendance.  Even  a  pass 
ing  funeral  could  not  resist  the  temptation  to  applaud,  and 
thus  down  through  Hartford,  Meriden,  New  Haven,  Bridge 
port,  Norwalk  to  New  York  the  entire  way  was  glorious. 
The  Boston  Transcript  of  the  23d  had  a  letter  from  one  of 
the  boys  in  Company  B,  who  thus  described  his  impressions 
of  the  journey: 

We  arrived  in  Springfield  at  1  p.m.  on  the  21st,  in  the  best 
of  spirits.  Our  journey  was  a  complete  ovation.  You  would 
not  have  thought  it  possible  that  it  could  be  the  Sabbath,  to 
see  the  people  in  the  places  we  passed  through,  as  they 
gathered  at  the  depots,  and  to  hear  the  roaring  of  cannon, 
the  ringing  of  bells,  the  bands  of  music,  the  cheering,  etc. 
Old  men  grasped  us  in  their  arms  as  we  halted  for  a  brief 
time  at  the  R.R.  stations,  while  their  streaming  eyes  and  their 
fervent  "  God  bless  you  "  told  of  the  intensity  of  their  feel 
ings.  At  Springfield,  the  people  completely  overwhelmed  the 
regiment  with  acts  of  kindness.  They  spread  for  the  men  a 
substantial  and  a  bountiful  repast  and  when  the  troops 
reached  Hartford,  scenes  occurred  that  will  never  be  erased 
from  the  memories  of  those  witnessing  them.  One  little 
personal  incident  I  cannot  help  mentioning.  A  charming 
young  lady  asked  for  my  address,  tied  the  tri-colors  in  my 
button-hole  and  told  me  to  wear  them  even  unto  death  if 
need  bo,  which  you  know  I  will  do. 

Had  a  certain  Concord  boy  returned  from  his  brief  leave  of 
absence,  the  train  had  carried  800  men  instead  of  the  number 
recorded.  It  seems  that  he  had  been  permitted  to  visit 
friends  ten  miles  away,  thinking  that  the  regiment  would 
not  get  away  until  Monday.  The  feelings  of  the  poor  fellow 
can  be  imagined  when  he  got  back  and  found  the  hall  empty 
and  his  comrades  missing.  But  he  was  no  deserter,  what 
ever  may  have  been  the  thought  of  his  officers.  Friends 
quickly  rallied,  raised  the  money  necessary  to  take  him  to 
Annapolis,  and  he  started  after  as  rapidly  as  steam  cars  could 
take  him.  Alas,  however,  for  the  good  intentions  of  his  friends 
and  his  own  as  well,  for  he  was  arrested  as  a  spy,  was  tried 


28  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

and  was  sentenced  to  be  hanged,  his  story  being  unbelieved. 
However,  before  the  sentence  could  be  executed,  confirma 
tion  of  his  tale  was  received  and  he  wras  restored  to  his  com 
pany  and  comrades,  by  no  means  the  coward  and  poltroon 
that  his  absence  some  had  thought  to  indicate. 

NEW    YORK. 

While  the  reception  of  the  regiment  to  New  York  was 
grand,  the  edge  of  popular  enthusiasm  had  been  taken  off  by 
the  Sixth  on  its  march  down  Broadway.  Of  that  memorable 
event,  descriptions  many  and  vivid  still  exist.  As  the  men 
passed  by  a  certain  office,  the  cheering  was  noticeably  loud 
even  where  every  one  was  seemingly  filled  with  acclaim. 
The  shouters  were  exclusively  Bay  Staters  afar  from  home, 
and  they  received  with  averted  faces  a  New  Yorker  who 
essayed  to  join  them,  telling  him  that  he  could  have  no  part 
there,  since  he  was  not  a  native  of  Massachusetts.  Where 
upon  he  exclaimed,  "  It  is  true  that  I  am  a  New  York  man, 
but  I  married  a  Boston  lady  and  made  a  first  rate  bargain." 
This  let  him  into  the  "  True  Blue  "  throng  and  his  shout 
was  considered  as  good  as  the  best.  Massachusetts  was 
cheered  over  and  over  in  the  Brokers'  Board  and  in  all  public 
places.  The  late  hour  of  arrival  may  have  had  a  lessening- 
effect  also,  though  those  who  had  not  witnessed  the  earlier 
reception  could  have  missed  nothing  in  the  eager  manner  of 
these  thronging  masses. 

The  New  York  Tribune  of  the  22d  had  this  to  say  con 
cerning  the  arrival  and  speedy  departure  of  the  Fifth: 

The  Fifth  Massachusetts  Infantry  arrived  in  this  city  last 
night  at  8  o'clock,  1000  picked  men  from  Boston  and  vicinity, 
as  fine  looking  a  bcdy  of  men  as  can  be  found.  They  were 
met  at  the  Depot  by  Captain  Bryan  of  the  19th  Ward  Police 
and  escorted  down  Broadway.  The  men  appeared  to  be  in 
excellent  spirits  and  eager  to  reach  the  scene  of  action.  The 
Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  was  a  center  of  tumultuous  cheering  and 
here  Captain  Speight  of  the  21st  WTard  with  a  platoon  of 


APRIL  22,  '61.  NEW   YORK.  29 

policemen  joined  the  escort,  the  prospect  being  that  the 
crowds  would  be  great  and,  thereby,  the  inarch  might  bo 
impeded.  This  was  true,  each  street  contributing  its  quota 
as  the  force  proceeded.  Arrangement  had  been  made  for 
supper  at  some  of  the  large  hotels,  past  or  near  which  the 
route  was  to  be,  and  thus  companies  filed  out  of  line  as  they 
reached  the  Metropolitan,  Lefarge,  Astor  and  St.  Nicholas. 
At  a  late  hour  the  regiment  marched  to  Pier  No.  4,  North 
River,  and  went  aboard  the  steamers  Ariel  and  DeSoto. 
Massachusetts  has,  within  six  days,  responded  to  the  Presi 
dent's  proclamation  with  five  full  regiments  of  Infantry,  a 
Battalion  of  Rifles  and  a  splendid  corps  of  Flying  Artillery. 

In  these  early  days  of  the  war,  the  city  of  New  York  had 
not  acquired  the  habit  of  caring  for  regiments  on  their  way 
through  the  Empire  City  to  the  seat  of  hostilities.  Later 
such  visitors  would  have  gone,  quite  unheralded,  to  City 
Hall  Barracks  and  there  have  partaken  of  the  coarsest  of 
soldiers'  fare;  now  they  go  to  the  finest  hotels  on  the  conti 
nent  and  are  fed  with  the  best  the  cuisine  affords.  While 
halls  and  corridors  may  have  afforded  improvised  couches 
for  tired  men,  there  are  records  of  guests  giving  up  their  rooms 
that  these  militiamen,  on  their  way  to  save  Washington  from 
the  foe,  might  rest  in  comfort  and  quiet.  Some,  we  are  told, 
bivouacked  on  the  sidewalk,  and  years  later  (me  of  such 
sleepers  told  the  Astor  House  clerk  that  he  much  preferred 
his  bed  of  the  night  before  to  that  of  1861.  For  the  first  time 
Adjutant  Barri  made  his  appearance  here,  for  though  ho  had 
formerly  resided  in  Cambridge,  his  residence  in  1861  was 
New  York. 

The  Boston  Artillery  had  accompanied  the  Fifth  all  the 
way,  and  in  New  York  the  Third  Battalion  was  also  joined, 
so  together  the  three  bodies  made  their  way  to  the  landing 
and  four  companies,  under  Major  Keyes  with  Major  Charles 
Devens's  Battalion  of  Rifles,  went  on  board  the  Ariel.  The 
other  six  companies  with  Colonel  Lawrence  and  Cook's 
Light  Battery  boarded  the  DeSoto  and,  at  3  o'clock  in  the 
morning  of  the  22d.  started  for  Fortress  Monroe.  The  food 


30  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

given  the  men  on  this  trip  was  a  most  decided  contrast  to 
that  almost  thrust  upon  them  on  their  way  down  from  their 
homes  through  Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  to  New 
York.  Then  there  was  more  than  they  could  eat,  now  they 
begin  to  realize  some  of  the  privations  of  a  soldier's  active 
life.  Colonel  Lawrence  wrote  back  to  the  authorities  in  Bos 
ton  that  the  three  days'  rations  supplied  his  men  were  a  total 
failure:  the  corned  beef  was  mouldy,  decomposed,  and  had 
to  be  thrown  away.  Thus  early  began  one  of  the  crying  evils 
of  the  wrar,  indeed  the  chief  cause  of  complaint  in  all  wars. 

NOOB  of  the  23d  saw  the  vessels  at  Fortress  Monroe,  then 
very  often  mentioned  in  popular  speech,  and  that  the  regi 
ment  was  now  within  rebel  reach  was  evident  when  the 
men  were  enjoined  to  keep  their  guns  near  at  hand  as  the 
steamers  went  cautiously  up  the  Chesapeake,  the  eastern 
shores  of  Virginia  and  Maryland  being  considered,  at  the 
best,  debatable  territory.  As  the  ships  rounded  into  the 
mouth  of  the  Severn,  in  the  morning  of  the  24th,  and  neared 
the  docks  of  Annapolis,  every  eager  soldier  noted  the  presence 
of  many  great  steamers,  for  the  most  part  filled  with  troops, 
and  several  national  vessels,  a  warlike  showing  never  seen 
by  them  before1.  Here  had  been  planted  the  U. .  S.  Naval 
Academy  while  George  Bancroft  of  Massachusetts  was  Sec 
retary  of  the  Navy,  but  owing  to  the  nearness  of  the  prospec 
tive  war,  to  be  moved,  i.  e.,the  students  and  teachers,  in  Ma}' 
to  Newport,  R.  I.  The  frigate  Constitution  launched  in 
Boston  October,  1797,  had  long  been  here,  serving  as  a  school- 
ship  for  the  "  middies  "  of  the  Naval  Academy,  and  was 
deemed  very  much  in  danger  of  capture  or  destruction  by 
the  rebels.  Thirty  tons  of  powder  were  in  her  magazine 
and  a  sailor  had  been  stationed  with  a  slow  match  to  be  used 
in  case  of  need,  but  happily  Massachusetts  men  had  rendered 
the  ignition  of  the  match  unnecessary,  since,  under  orders 
from  General  Butler,  soldiers  of  the  Eighth  Regiment  boarded 
her  and  on  the  26th  were  to  sail  away  to  safety  in  New  York, 
later  to  resume,  in  Newport,  her  old-time  office  of  training- 


APRIL  24,  '01.  ANNAPOLIS.  31 

ship.      Men   of   the   Fifth   got    hardly   more   than   a   parting 
glance  at  Old  Ironsides  as  they  steamed  by. 

ANNAPOLIS. 

The  men  were  landed  in  the  afternoon  of  the  24th,  and  at 
first  temporary  lodgment  was  found  within  the  grounds  of 
the  Academy.  Indeed  when  (TOY.  Thomas  H.  Hicks  had 
protested  against  the  presence  of  armed  soldiers  from  other 
states  in  Maryland  at  all,  the  ever  ready  General  Butler  assured 
him  that  there  could  be  no  possible  objection  to  the  use  of 
U.  S.  territory,  which  that  of  the  Xaval  Academy  surely  was. 
During  this  halt  within  the  grounds  of  the  Academy,  at  least 
a  portion  of  the  regiment  was  quartered  within  a  church,  pos 
sibly  that  in  which  the  cadets  worshipped.  Two  youngsters, 
taking  up  their  beds  in  the  gallery,  were  amused  at  the  variety 
of  snores  that  the  church  floor  afforded.  One  of  the  gallery- 
gods  conceived  the  brilliant  idea  of  snoring  also,  terminating 
each  effort  with  a  prolonged  whistle,  thus  startling  a  Quincy 
Irishman,  down  on  the  floor,  who  affirmed  that  there  was  a 
Banshee  in  their  midst.  Direful  threats'had  been  made  as  to 
what  would  happen  if  any  of  the  northern  men  ventured  out 
side  of  the  enclosure,  but  the  General  called  for  a  detail  of 
printers,  with  them  took  possession  of  a  printing  establish 
ment,  soon  set  up  and  struck  off  -some  posters  so  large  that 
the  .poorest  vision  could  read  their  terms,  and  put  them  up  in 
prominent  places.  The  wording  was  to  the  effect  that  if  a 
single  hair  of  a  soldier's  head  was  injured,  he  would  level 
the  city  to  the  ground.  Whereupon  the  gates  were  thrown 
open  and  men  came  and  went,  quite  safe  from  rebel  molesta 
tion.  Rebel  sympathizers  had  torn  up  a  considerable  part 
of  the  railroad  track  to  Annapolis  Junction,  and  the  only 
locomotive  had  been  put  out  of  commission,  but  the  men  of 
the  Eighth  Regiment  had  righted  these  defects  before  the  Fifth 
was  ready  for  action. 

Our  regiment  had  not  gone  all  this  distance  to  stay  in  An 
napolis.  The  ultimate  destination  was  Washington,  and  on 


32  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

the  next  day,  the  25th,  orders  were  received  that  at  mid 
night  the  start  should  be  made,  but  the  train  could  accommo 
date  only  four  companies,  the  other  six  under  Lieut. -col. 
Greene  being  obliged  to  foot  it,  making  thus  their  first  real 
military  march.  Starting  thus  early  on  the  26th,  to  this 
day  it  is  a  question  which  division  fared  the  worse,  for  while 
one  was  nominally  riding,  it  was  over  a  road  never  any  too 
well-equipped,  so  that  the  passengers  thought  themselves  in 
danger  of  being  pitched  down  the  embankment  at  any 
moment.*  It  also  was  a  case  of  working  one's  way,  since 
again  and  again  the  train  was  stopped  that  the  track  might 
be  made  safer.  It  was  on  this  day  that  the  DeSoto  passengers 
had  cartridges  given  to  them,  and  it  is  told  that  one  of  the 
men,  doubtless  a  recruit,  in  his  ignorance  turned  to  his  comrade 
as  he  prepared  to  load  his  gun,  saying,  "  Which  end  of  this 
thing  goes  in  first?"  Those  arriving  in  the  Ariel  had  been 
supplied  on  shipboard.  The  Massachusetts  Eighth  and  the 
New  York  Seventh  had  been  the  forlorn  hope  in  this  plan  of 
getting  to  Washington;  they  had  already  traversed  the 
twenty-one  miles  between  Annapolis,  the  capital  of  Maryland, 
and  the  Junction,  whence  they  were  to  take  the  main  line  of 
the  road  from  Baltimore  to  Washington.  The  story  of  that 
early  induction  into  marching  through  a  hostile  country, 
Theodore  Winthrop  of  the  New  York  Seventh,  so  soon  to  fall 
at  Big  Bethel,  in  an  article  published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly 
about  the  time  of  his  death,  .told  in  such  graphic  terms  that 
his  reputation  as  a  literary  man  was  firmly  fixed,  but  all  of 
this  was  preliminary  to  the  labors  of  the  Fifth  Regiment. 


*Great  diversity  of  statement  is  found  as  to  when  the  regiment  left  An 
napolis,  and  equally  wide  are  the  opinions  as  to  when  the  men  arrived  at 
the  Junction,  also  in  Washington.  One  of  Lieut.  Bowers'  letters,  written 
at  the  Junction  immediately  on  arriving,  states  that  Co.  G  started  at  8  p.m. 
of  the  25th  and  reached  the  Junction  at  11  a.m.  of  the  26th.  As  it  was 
the  first  march  of  all  of  the  men  and  extremely  exacting,  it  is  best  to  con 
clude  that  there  was  some  "  go  as  you  please  "  inarching,  and  the  men  got 
there  when  they  arrived,  hence  the  all  sorts  of  hours  reported.  A  writer 
of  Co.  F  says,  in  so  many  words,  "On  Saturday,  a.m.  (27)  a  train  was 
taken  for  Washington  which  reached  that  city  about  7  o'clock." 


APRIL  25,  '61.  WASHINGTON.  33 

In  what  way  the  idea  gained  circulation  that  it  was  only 
nine  miles  to  the  Junction  may  never  be  known,  but  such  was 
the  report,  and  when  that  distance  had  been  accomplished, 
the  men  began  to  think  that  "  lying  signboards  "  were  not 
confined  to  New  England.  If  the  expression  "  nine  miles 
to  the  Junction  "  wTas  heard  once,  it  was  a  hundred  and  more 
times  as  the  men  plodded  their  weary  way  onward.  The 
phrase  became  a  stock  expression  for  all  of  the  coming  weeks 
of  their  service.  Whatever  the  scheduled  distance  those  who 
walked  were  sure  the  half  had  never  been  told.  While  men 
enough,  on  foot  and  horseback,  were  seen  in  the  distance,  the 
Junction  was  reached  with  much  less  adventure  than  had 
been  expected.  As  one  of  the  men  expressed  it,  "  We  lay 
on  our  arms  till  the  next  morning."  A  letter  of  those  times 
says,  "  So  thoroughly  tired  were  we  that  nature  demanded  a 
good  rest  and  I  camped  on  the  bare  earth  beside  Major  Keyes, 
and  was  so  exhausted  that  I  did  not  awake  until  long  after 
sunrise  and  then  found  one  cheek  blistered  as  I  was  called  to 
a  '  snatch  '  breakfast."  From  the  arrival  of  the  Sixth  Regi 
ment  in  Washington  on  the  19th,  owing  to  the  suspension  of 
trains  and  the  cutting  of  telegraph  wires,  the  capital  was 
entirely  cut  off  from  communication  with  the  northern  world, 
except  as  a  special  messenger  broke  in  on  the  24th,  until  the 
arrival  of  the  Seventh  New  York  at  noon  of  the  25th,  at  which 
time  the  Fifth  was  waiting  in  Annapolis.  Some  of  the  Eighth 
Regiment,  which  had  blazed  the  way  from  Annapolis  to  the 
main  line,  had  not  shared  the  facilities  of  transportation 
afforded  the  New  Yorkers  and  were  ready  to  advance  with 
their  later  arrived  friends  of  the  Fifth. 


WASHINGTON. 

Beyond  the  Junction,  there  were  yet  twenty-one  miles  to 
the  capital,   and  though  the  Sixth  and  a  part  of  the  Eighth 
Massachusetts  and  the  Seventh  New  York  were  there,  the 
3 


34  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

force  seemed  small  compared  with  what  the  enemy  could 
easily  concentrate  against  it.  While  feet  were  blistered  from 
the  experience  of  the  day  before,  a  considerable  portion  of 
the  men  started  on,  encountering  similar  obstacles  to  those 
of  the  26th,  but  a  long  train  of  empty  cars  had  been  making 
its  way  slowly  and  cautiously  from  Washington,  very  likely 
the  same  vehicles  that  had  conveyed  the  soldiers  of  the  day 
before  to  the  rescue  of  the  isolated  city.  As  quickly  as 
possible,  the  train  was  started  back  again.  Chroniclers  of 
this  progress  of  the  Fifth  Regiment  vary  in  their  accounts, 
one  authority  stating  that  the  six  companies  which  marched 
from  Annapolis  did  not  reach  Washington  until  about  8  a.m. 
of  the  27th.  Evidently  the  careful  keeper  of  a  diary  was 
absent  in  those  days.  Some  of  the  men  who  rode  claim  that 
their  party  reached  the  capital  Friday,  the  hour  varying  from 
noon  to  2  o'clock  p.m.  and  later;  not  improbable,  since  they 
rode  the  most  of  the  way.  The  cars  are  described  as  open, 
platform  vehicles,  rickety,  and  exposed  to  smoke  and  cinders. 
Of  those  marching,  one  writes,  "  The  dawn  of  Friday  finds 
the  marchers  twelve  miles  on  their  way,  and  at  9  a.m.  they  are 
at  the  Junction,  i.  e.,  some  of  them;  the  officers  have  disap 
peared  and  the  men  are  advancing  in  squads,  one  of  which 
gets  in  as  stated;  the  rest  not  arriving  until  two  hours  later. 
The  record  of  eleven  hours  had  beaten  that  of  the  Seventh  N.  Y. 
by  fourteen  hours.  At  3  a.m.  Saturday,  the  27th,  a  start  is 
made  towards  Washington  on  foot,  but  at  6  o'clock  they 
board  a  freight  train  and  ride  the  remaining  distance.  Nor 
is  it  probable  that  all  went  even  then,  since  the  Official 
Records  of  the  Rebellion  make  Colonel  Corcoran  of  the  69th 
N.  Y.  reporting  on  the  29th,  and  state  that  he  found  near  the 
Junction  Lieut.  K.  Stark  (H)  with  a  detail  of  thirty-seven 
men  on  guard.  Whatever  the  precise  hour  and  manner  of 
their  arrival,  the  men  were  quartered  in  the  U.  S.  Treasury 
building,  and  there  they  remained  until  sent  across  the  Poto 
mac  towards  the  end  of  May.  A  double  purpose  was  thus 
accomplished :  the  Treasury  was  well  guarded  and  the  troops 


APRIL  29,  '<>!. 


WASHINGTON. 


35 


were  properly  housed,  though  it  is  claimed  that  certain  of 
the  men  contracted  here  coughs  and  colds  that  hung  on  for 
many  a  day.  The  baggage  that  was  to  follow  the  regiment 
did  not  appear  until  the  29th  of  April,  on  which  day  also  the 
regiment  was  honored  by  a  visit  from  the  President. 

The  routine  of  work  consisted  in  patrol  and  sentry  duty, 
not  very  hard  of  itself,  but  liable  to  become  irksome  if  too 
often  repeated.  One  seventeen  years  old  youth  records 
that  lie  had  been  posted  several  times  at  an  iron  door  that 
opened  towards  his  station.  Never  having  seen  any  one  go 


KK(;iMK.\TAI.    KITCHEN—  AN    AN(iLK   IN    TRKASl'RV   INCLOSURE 


through  that  passage  and,  being  tired  and  sleepy,  he  closed 
the  door,  proceeded  to  lie  down  against  it  and  went  to  sleep. 
Ere  long  his  infraction  of  regulations  w^as  discovered,  but 
instead  of  the  outcry  such  an  act  might  have  occasioned,  the 
judicious  officer  had  a  strong  decoction  of  tea  made  and 
compelled  the  lad  to  drink  about  a  quart  of  it,  effectually 


36  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

banishing  all  tendency  to  sleep,  not  only  for  the  rest  of  the 
night,  but  for  the  next  forty-eight  hours.  May  1st,  the 
regiment  marched  to  Jackson  Square,  where  it  was  formally 
mustered  into  the  service  of  the  national  Government  by 
General  Irvin  McDowell,  and  also  marched  in  review  before 
the  President  at  the  White  House.  Officers  recall  seeing 
General  Scott  at  a  White  House  reception.  It  was  while 
quartered  in  the  Treasury  building  that  the  companies  were 
relettered,  thus  acquiring  the  nomenclature  by  which  they 
must  go  down  through  the  ages.  Of  these  days,  Adam 
Gurowski  in  his  famous  Diary  says:  "  Regiments  pour  in; 
the  Massachusetts  men,  of  course,  leading  the  van,  as  in  the 
days  of  the  tea-party.  My  admiration  for  the  Yankees  is 
justified  at  every  step,  as  are  my  scorn,  my  contempt,  etc.,  etc., 
of  the  southern  chivalrous  slaver."  Lieut.  Bowers  (Gj, 
writing  to  his  son,  said:  "I  wish  you  could  have  been  with 
me  last  night  at  Mr.  Seward's.  I  should  like  to  have  had  you 
shake  the  strong,  honest  hand  of  the  President.  I  did,  and 
never  did  I  have  a  heartier  shake.  He  is  all  and  more  than  I 
expected.  Instead  of  being  so  homely  (the  accounts  we  have 
had  had  of  his  being  so),  he  is  one  of  the  finest  looking  men 
I  have  met  in  Washington." 

Everywhere  in  Washington  was  apparent  the  fact  that  in 
laying  out  and  building  the  city,  no  provision  had  been  made 
for  war.  Though  the  Capitol  had  been  burned  during  the 
War  of  1812  by  the  British,  the  happy  Americans  had  made 
no  further  attempt  at  defense,  hence  the  evidence  on  every 
hand  that  the  paths  of  peace  must  become  those  of  possible 
hostilities.  As  early  as  the  18th  of  April,  when  the  unarmed 
Pennsylvanians  made  their  appearance  in  the  city,  "  a  new 
kind  of  deposit  was  made  in  the  basement  rooms  of  the  Treas 
ury  building,  in  the  shape  of  several  hundred  casks  of  middlings, 
barrels  of  white  beans,  sugar,  sacks  of  coffee,  etc.,  to  supply  the 
troops  which  were  concentrating  in  Washington.  It  is  not 
often  that  such  commodities  have  storage  in  buildings  of 
such  elegant  and  costly  architecture.  In  and  around  the 


MAY  11,  '(51.  WASHINGTON.  37 

General  Post  Office  and  public  buildings  also  were 
stored  hundreds  of  barrels  of  pork,  and  other  army  supplies 
from  Baltimore  and  other  points."  Later  the  gorgeous  Cap 
itol  itself,  or  certain  portions  of  it,  under  the  directions  of  a 
Massachusetts  man,*  was  to  be  transformed  into  a  monstrous 
bakery  for  the  benefit  of  the  teeming  array  of  soldiers  who 
had  come  to  defend  the  honor  of  the  nation. 

Nor  were  the  provisions  given  out  to  these  soldiers  from 
Massachusetts  altogether  those  described  above,  for  friends 
at  home  took  good  care,  when  the  lines  of  communication 
were  again  opened,  to  send  to  the  boys,  not  exactly  in  camp, 
but  engaged  in  guarding  the  Treasury  of  the  United  States, 
specimens  of  what  they  were  wont  to  enjoy  when  under  the 
ancestral  roof.  Record  is  found  of  the  receipt  of  provisions 
by  the  steamer  Cambridge  on  the  llth  of  May,  sent  by 
the  marketmen  of  Boston.  What  visions  of  Faneuil  Hall 
and  Quincy  Market  their  coming  must  have  excited.  Then, 
too,  when  a  package  of  papers  from  the  home  village  came, 
what  eagerness  to  secure  a  copy.  The  larger  dailies  of  New 
York  and  Philadelphia  were  not  in  the  running  at  all  with  the 
country  weekly.  There  seemed  to  be  ample  space  for  lodging, 
as  soldiers  are  wont  to  rest,  since  a  room  sixty  feet  long  and 
twenty  wide,  for  two  companies,  gave  liberal  expanse  in  which 
to  turn  over;  and  what  more  could  any  one  ask? 

It  was  while  camping  in  the  nation's  financial  storehouse  that 
the  universal  "  Passday  "  came.  In  those  times  permits  to 
be  away  from  quarters  were  issued  on  certain  colored  cards, 
and  not  with  the  care  and  precision  of  later  times  when 
experience,  as  a  teacher,  had  got  in  its  work.  Private  Pierce 
of  Company  E,  to  be  known  through  the  later  years  of  his 
life  as  "  Farmer  "  Pierce,  with  his  quick  and  observing  eye 
had  discovered  where  the  officers  had  procured  the  cards  thus 
employed.  He  at  once  bought  enough  to  serve  the  company 
and  coming  back  proceeded  to  pass  out  every  man  in  said 

*  Lieut.  T.  J.  Gate,  Co.  F,  Sixth  Muss.,   Lowell. 


38  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

company.  Naturally,  the  cry  soon  arose,  "  What  has  become 
of  the  men  of  E?"  and  it  seemed  that  not  one  was  in  sight. 
On  their  return  the  passes  appeared  to  be  0.  K.,  but  a  new 
system  of  issuing  these  privileges  ensued  at  once.  The  subse 
quent  efficient  member  of  the  Signal  Corps  escaped  un 
punished  for  his  liberal  distribution  of  "  tickets  of  leave.  " 

All  of  the  possible  activities  of  military  life  were  resorted  to, 
that  the  men  might  not  grow  homesick  through  inaction; 
a  picture,  still  extant,  with  all  of  the  stiffness  of  a  wood-cut, 
portrays  the  regiment  charging  up  a  steep  incline  of  the 
Capitol  grounds  just  to  show  the  men  what  they  might  have 
to  do  under  possible  circumstances.  The  drills  to  which 
the  men  were  subjected,  directed  as  they  were  by  such  skillful 
officers  as  Colonels  Lawrence  and  Greene,  were  training- 
hundreds  of  them,  not  so  much  for  immediate  service  as  for 
that  of  the -coming  years,  when  a  very  large  number  were  to 
reappear  in  all  parts  of  the  country  and  in  all  branches  of 
military  duty  amply  equipped,  through  this  severe  regimen, 
to  serve  as  commissioned  officers.  There  were  many  churches 
in  Washington,  and  the  most  of  the  men  proved  their  proper 
rearing  by  seeking  the  sanctuaries  individually  and  sometimes 
in  squads  and  .  companies.  Target  practice  was  another 
useful  manner  of  employing  the  soldier's  time,  extra  effort 
at  precision  being  secured  by  the  offering  of  prizes. 

A  letter,  written  May  19th,  gives  this  comprehensive 
scheme  of  daily  life  in  camp:  "  A.  M.,  reveille,  o  o'clock; 
company-drill,  6  to  7;  breakfast,  7;  guard  mount,  8;  surgeon's 
call,  8.15;  company  drill,  8.30;  squad  drill,  10  to  11;  target- 
practice,  11  to  12  M.;  dinner,  1  P.  M.;  company  drill,  2  to 
3;  battalion  drill,  3.30  to  6;  supper,  7,  with  tattoo  at  9  o'clock. 
We  are  marched  over  rough,  stony  and  muddy  ground,  over 
ditches  and  up  steep  banks  thirty  feet  high,  at  double-quick 
time,  that  we  may  become  accustomed  to  maneuvering  upon 
uneven  ground;  Friday  (17)  we  marched  down  Pennsylvania 
Avenue,  formed  in  line  in  front  of  the  National  Hotel  and  were 


40 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


reviewed  by  General  Butler,  who  appeared  highly  pleased  with 
our  promptness." 

While  Washington  was  filling  up  with  soldiery  from  all 
parts  of  the  north,  the  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac  was  in 
rebel  hands.  Within  plain  sight  of  the  Capitol,  enemies 
of  the  nation  were  disporting  themselves  at  their  own  will, 
and  Alexandria,  once  a  part  of  the  District  of  Columbia, 
was  a  hotbed  of  secession.  If  there  were  any  loyal  people 
there,  they  had  to  be  exceedingly  careful  not  to  let  their 
feelings  be  known.  From  the  roof  of  the  Marshall  House 
floated  a  banner  of  the  foe,  and  had  the  secessionists  possessed 
as  much  real  determination  as  they  constantly  asserted,  there 
would  have  been  a  movement  of  their  soldiery  across  the  Long 


Bridge  weeks  before  the  Union  forces  anticipated  any  such 
act  on  their  part.  How  far  they  might  have  gone  in  their 
effort  to  enter  Washington  can  never  be  known,  though  the 
probability  is  that  their  advance  would  have  been  vigorously 
opposed.  In  brag  and  bluster  the  North  was  a  very  poor- 
second  to  the  South,  whose  press,  from  Richmond  to  New 
Orleans,  demanded  the  immediate  capture  of  the  Federal 
City.  On  the  part  of  the  North,  possibly  the  most  graphic- 
reply  was  the  "  war-time  "  envelope  bearing  in  its  upper 
left  corner  the  figure  of  a  largo  dog  having  unmistakably  the 


MAY  19,  '61.  WASHINGTON.  41 

well-known  face  of  General  Scott,  his  paw  upon  a  large  bone, 
labeled  Washington,  regarding  a  lean  and  evidently  hungry 
canine,  while  from  his  mouth  stream  the  words,  "  Why 
don't  you  take  it?" 

Of   these    days,    Lieut.    Williams    (F)    tells   the   following: 

(  -o.  F  drilled  each  morning  on  the  green  back  of  the  White 
House  in  Company  movements  and  skirmish  drill  and  the 
regiment  on  the  land  where  the  "  Smithsonian  "  building 
is  now.  From  the  upper  windows  in  the  back  of  our  house 
opposite  the  National  Hotel,  we  could  see  the  rebel  flag 
flying  on  the  Marshall  House  at  Alexandria,  and  Charles  E. 
Fuller,  who  was  waiting  for  his  commission  as  Captain  and 
Quartermaster  U.  S.  A.  to  be  made  out,  said,  "  Boys,  if  you 
will  meet  me  tomorrow  night  off  the  upper  wharf  in  Alexan 
dria  I  will  go  down  there  in  the  morning  and  get  that  flag 
and  meet  you  there  after  dark."  This  we  agreed  to  do,  and 
after  roll-call  four  of  us  officers  and  four  of  the  men  of  our 
Company  took  a  boat  from  below  the  long  bridge  and  rowed 
down  to  the  appointed  place.  Awaiting  some  time,  one  of 
the  men  attempted  to  change  places  with  another  and  made 
such  a  noise  as  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  Quartermaster 
of  the  U.  S.  Ship,  Harriet  Lane,  and  we  were  ordered  aboard 
much  to  our  disgust.  The  Captain  kept  us  until  almost 
morning  and  we  had  a  hard  time  to  get  back  to  quarters 
before  roll-call  in  the  morning.  Fuller  got  his  flag  all  right, 
but  some  one  informed  Jackson  that  his  flag  was  down  and 
he  rushed  out  of  the  office,  and  met  Fuller  coming  down  the 
stairs  with  the  flag  buttoned  up  in  his  coat.  Jackson  took 
the  flag  away  and  also  Fuller's  pistols  and  said,  "  The  next 
man  that  takes  down  that  flag  is  a  dead  man;"  and  that  man 
w-as  Col.  Ellsworth. 

It  was  impossible,  even  if  desirable,  that  active  young  men 
would  always  be  absolutely  within  the  bounds  of  decorum, 
military  or  otherwise.  Tradition  has  it  that  on  one  of 
these  days  of  waiting  and  preparation  a  party  of  five  men 
from  Company  B  went  over  Long  Bridge.  One  of  the  party, 
H.  W.  Eustis.  shot  a  small  hawk  on  the  wing  with  his  pistol; 
obtaining  a  boat  the  bird  was  secured.  The  incident  evi 
dently  aroused  the  curiosity  of  two  rebel  pickets  who 


42  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

were  stationed  near  the  Virginia  end  of  the  bridge.  One  of 
the  pickets  asked  who  had  fired  so  excellent  a  shot,  saying 
that  it  was  a  remarkable  one;  whereupon  Corporal  Sweetser 
replied,  pointing  to  Private  Eustis,  "  That's  the  man  and 
he's  the  poorest  shot  in  the  company." 

Whatever  part  of  a  company  might  be  allowed  out  at  night, 
every  one  was  expected  in  at  "  taps  "  or  before,  all  delinquents 
being  subject  to  arrest.  However,  few  soldiers  of  actual 
service  failed,  at  some  time  in  their  career,  to  "  run  the  guard," 
or  at  least  try  to.  Three  privates  came  up  Pennsylvania  Avenue 
under  the  light  of  a  glorious  full  moon,  not  in  the  least  disposed 
to  "  turn  in,  "  even  if  it  was  time  for  "  lights  out.  "  "  Let's 
stay  out  beyond  time,"  says  one  of  the  mischievous  boys. 
"  The  guard  will  let  us  in  when  we  come  back.  "  All  agreeing, 
they  set  off  for  a  two  hours'  stroll  through  parts  of  the  city, 
not  on  the  avenue.  When  they  finally  came  back,  it  was 
to  find  Captain  Peirson,  Officer  of  the  Day,  making  his  rounds. 
The  guard  kindly  "  put  them  wise  "  and  they  ran  around  to 
the  White  House  side  of  the  building,  jumped  the  fence  and 
sought  to  use  the  rear  entrance  of  the  corridor,  but  the  Captain 
was  vigilant  and  their  gray  uniforms  with  three  rows  of  buttons 
were  very  conspicuous.  They  were  still  thirty  feet  away 
when  the  Captain  called  out,  asking  if  they  were  of  the  Fifth, 
to  which  one  of  the  lads  promptly  replied  "Yes."  To  the 
further  order  to  come  in  the  boys  declared  their  willingness 
if  they  could  be  assured  of  not  being  put  in  the  guard-house. 
Of  course  the  officer  would  make  no  such  promise1,  so  one  of 
the  soldiers  shouting,  "Come  on,  boys,"  they  ran  to  the 
horse-sheds,  filled  with  the  greenest  of  new  steeds,  where  they 
were  in  imminent  danger  of  being  kicked  into  "  smithereens," 
the  Captain,  however,  valorously  following.  Fairly  caught, 
the  lads  gave  up,  and  two  of  them  were  collared  and  walked 
along  towards  the  building,  the  third  scamp  following.  On 
the  way  up  the  stairs  one  of  the  boys  in  leading  suddenly 
dropped  out  of  the  clutches  of  his  captor.  The  latter  made 
sure  of  the  bird  in  hand  and  deposited  him  in  the  uunder-the- 


44  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

roof7'  guard-house  and  then  sought  the  others,  who  had  hurried 
to  their  quarters.  One  freeing  himself  of  his  uniform  was  too 
much  like  his  fellows  to  be  identified,  while  the  other,  pausing 
to  talk  to  the  boy  on  guard,  lost  time,  so  was  still  in  his  full 
dress  when  the  Captain  tried  to  waken  him  from  his  simulated 
sleep.  At  this  moment  someone  sang  out,  "  Put  out  the 
lights,"  and  in  the  ensuing  darkness  there  was  another  escape, 
and  the  culprit,  finding  a  fellow  soldier  willing  to  let  him  take 
his  place  on  guard,  effectually  evaded  the  pursuing  officer. 
Later  all  three  of  these  mischievous  fellows  served  their 
country  well,  all  of  them  wearing  shoulder  straps,  all  the 
better  officers  through  their  own  experience  as  privates.  As 
a  guest  of  the  subsequent  General  Peirson,  many  years  after 
wards,  the  leader  of  the  escapade  was  told  by  the  quondam 
Captain,  "  You  came  near  having  me  kicked  to  death  by 
those  animals." 

It  was  of  these  Treasury-building  days  that  Dr.  S.  G.  Howe, 
the  famous  philanthropist,  wrote  to  friends  at  home,  bearing 
particularly  on  Captain  Prescott  of  Co.  G,  saying,  "  There 
will  be  many  captains  (referring  to  Massachusetts  troops, 
generally)  like  the  one  I  could  name  in  the  Massachusetts 
Fifth,  the  stalwart  man,  every  inch  of  whose  six  feet  is  of  the 
soldier  stamp,  the  captain  who  eschews  hotel  dinners  and 
takes  every  meal  with  his  men,  eating  only  what  they  eat  : 
who  is  their  resolute  and  rigid  commander  when  on  duty, 
but  their  kind  and  faithful  companion  when  off  duty;  who 
lies  down  with  them  upon  the  bare  ground  or  floor  and,  if 
there  be  not  blankets  enough  for  all,  refuses  to  use  one  himself; 
who  often  gets  up  in  the  night  and  draws  the  blanket  over  any 
half-covered  sleeper  and  carries  water  to  the  feverish  and 
thirsty;  the  man  who  is  like  a  father  as  well  as  a  captain  of 
his  soldiers."  Captain  Prescott  also  obtained  a  deal  of 
praise  from  his  men  for  the  successful  manner  in  which  lie 
reproved  a  young  West  Pointer  for  his  profanity  when 
drilling  these  Concord  boys.  The  Captain  knew  the  rules 


MAY  24,  '61.  WASHINGTON.  45 

of  propriety  and  duly  told  the  youngster  where  his  duty  lay. 
The  lesson  was  salutary  for  both  officer  and  men. 

For  more  than  a  month  Union  troops  had  been  assembling 
in  Washington,  and  they  had  done  nothing  towards  driving 
the  rebellious  people  across  the  Potomac  to  a  more  respectful 
distance.  It  was  becoming  apparent  that  if  the  Federal 
forces  did  not  cross  the  stream  and  fortify  the  several  heights 
on  the  Virginia  side,  the  enemy  would.  It  is  recorded  that 
( leneral  Butler  had  told  General  Scott  that  Manassas  ought 
to  be  seized  and  held,  that  the  capital  could  be  defended 
bettor  from  that  point  than  from  the  near-by  ranges  of  hills 
opposite  the  city.  To  this  suggestion,  however,  the  aged 
officer  turned  a  deaf  ear.  As  time  advanced  and  the  people 
began  to  wonder  why  no  blow  was  struck,  it  became  necessary 
for  something  to  be  done,  hence  came,  on  the  early  morning 
of  the  24th  of  May,  the  general  advance  into  rebellious 
territory,  the  intention  being  to  have  simultaneous  movements 
across  the  Chain,  Aqueduct  and  Long  bridges  with  a  crossing 
of  the  river  by  steamer  and  transport  to  Alexandria.  Between 
four  and  five  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  24th,  the  Baltimore 
and  Mt.  Vernon,  having  on  board  the  New  York  Fire  Zouaves 
(Eleventh  N.  Y.  Infantry),  Colonel  E.  E.  Ellsworth,  drew 
up  at  the  wharves  of  Alexandria. 

The  tragedy  of  the  Marshall  House,  where  the  young 
Colonel  of  the  Fire  Zouaves  went  to  his  early  death  at  the 
hands  of  the  landlord,  J.  W.  Jackson,  it  is  no  part  of  this 
history  to  portray  save  as  it  serves  as  a  preface  to  the  intro 
duction  of  our  regiment  to  Virginia.  It  was  yet  early  morning 
when  the  flag  was  secured  from  the  roof  of  the  hotel  and  its 
captor  met  his  death,  and  consternation  reigned  in  all  directions, 
though  the  extent  of  the  misfortune  was  carefully  withheld 
from  the  men  of  Colonel  Ellsworth's  regiment;  indeed,  they 
were  in  the  main  confined  to  their  transport  in  mid-stream 
lest  they,  in  their  grief,  might  pillage  and  fire  the  city  through 
revenge.  The  body  of  the  fallen  officer  was  carried  to  Wash 
ington  and,  at  the  request  of  President  Lincoln,  who  had 


46  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

formed  a  warm  attachment  for  the  Colonel,  lay  in  state  in 
the  East  Room  of  the  White  House,  where  immense  throngs 
of  people  gazed  upon  the  features  of  the  deceased.  The 
funeral  was  at  noon  of  the  25th,  the  first  of  hundreds  of  a 
military  character  to  follow  in  Washington. 

Several  men  of  the  Fifth  attended  the  funeral,  including 
Colonel  Lawrence,  who  was  present  as  one  of  the  pall-bearers. 
As  the  funeral  cortege,  on  its  way  to  the  depot,  passed  the 
Treasury  building,  there  was  an  opportunity  for  all  not  on 
duty  to  behold  the  scene.  Rumor,  ever  active,  was  particu 
larly  so  in  those  days,  and  the  report  came  that  an  attack 
from  the  direction  of  Alexandria  was  imminent.  Orders  are 
said  to  have  come  very  early  from  General  J.  K.  F.  Mansfield 
for  the  regiment  to  be  ready  to  march  in  "  fighting  rig  "  at 
a  moment's  warning. 

While  in  the  procession,  accompany  ing  the  remains  of  the 
Alexandria  martyr  to  the  station,  the  President  was  informed 
by  a  courier,  riding  in  great  haste,  of  "  stirring  hostilities  "  on 
the  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac.  General  Mansfield,  com 
manding  the  Department  of  Washington,  had  been  similarly 
informed,  and  very  likely  his  alarming  earlier  message  to  the 
regiment  was  one  of  the  results.  Dense  smoke  was  seen  and 
cannonading  was  heard.  The  latter  proved  to  be  funeral 
minute  guns,  and  the  smoke  came  from  not  over  brisk  camp- 
fires.  But  this  solution  of  indications  was  not  known  until 
the  command  "  Fall-in!"  resounded  through  the  camp. 
With  the  utmost  enthusiasm  the  men  responded  to  the  orders, 
including  several  who  had  been  excused  from  duty  by  the 
surgeon.  All  grasped  their  muskets  with  alacrity  and  zeal, 
and  in  fifteen  minutes'  time  the  regiment  was  moving  at  a 
double  quick  to  meet  the  foe.  The  commander  was  Major 
Keyes,  the  Colonel  being  still  detained  as  a  bearer. 

Says  a  participant:  'We  double-quicked  down  Pennsyl 
vania  Avenue,  and  so  on  to  Long  Bridge,  which  we  struck 
with  a  swing  that  I  shall  always  remember.  We  were  full 
of  enthusiasm,  and  we  hit  that  old  bridge  with  a  cadence  step 


MAY  2").  '61  ALEXANDRIA.  47 

which  wo  maintained  until  near  the  middle  of  its  length.  We 
were  new  to  such  experience,  were  entirely  ignorant  of  the 
effect  of  rhythmic  motion  on  suspended  structures,  but  if 
we  had  not  held  up  about  the  time  we  did,  there  would  have 
been  a  fall  of  the  bridge  and  a  sudden  plunge  bath  for  a  large 
part  of  the  Fifth  Regiment." 

ALEXANDRIA. 

Notwithstanding  the  haste  of  the  departure  from  the  camp, 
the  traditional  halt  and  wait  occurred  on  the  bridge,  where  for 
two  long  hours  men  wondered  what  it  was  all  about.  Some 
said  the  "  draw  "  was  up,  others  just  guessed.  Though  the 
regiment  did  touch  the  "  sacred  soil  "  of  Old  Virginny,  it- 
was  not  for  long,  since  the  orders  to  countermarch  were  soon 
heard,  and  the  Long  Bridge  was  recrossed,  with  the  Treasury 
building  as  the  terminus  of  the  trip.  Our  army  in  Flanders 
that  marched  up  the  hill  and  then  marched  down  again  was 
perfectly  imitated  by  these  Bay  State  boys  and,  for  that 
matter,  by  the  sons  of  other  states  as  well,  since  the  return 
was  made  by  several  organizations,  those  in  command  appar 
ently  being  quite  uncertain  of  their  own  minds.  It  was  on 
this  day,  and  when  the  hurried  departure  was  had,  that 
General  Winfield  Scott,  that  famous  relic  of  the  days  of  more 
than  half  a  century  before,  yet  still  in  command  of  the  armies, 
was  seen  by  some  of  these  young  soldiers  whose  fathers  had 
voted  for  him  in  1852  when  he  was  the  Whig  candidate  for 
the  Presidency.  They  gazed  admiringly  on  his  gigantic 
stature  and  his  kindly  face,  and  possibly  some  of  them  won 
dered  whether,  had  he  been  elected  instead  of  Franklin  Pierce, 
the  national  outlook  would  have  been  altered.  There  were 
disappointed  men  among  those  who  stacked  their  guns  once 
more  within  the  walls  of  the  Treasury  building;  they  had 
expected  a  sight  of  the  enemy. 

Still  their  stay  was  not  so  very  long,  since  that  very  evening- 
there  came  the  summons  to  the  Virginia  shore  again,  and 


- 


MAY  25,  '61.  ALEXANDRIA.  49 

this  time  it  was  to  stay.  The  orders  were  not  so  hurried 
nor  peremptory  as  those  of  mid-day,  and  under  the  command 
of  Colonel  Lawrence  the  Fifth  once  more  set  its  front  towards 
the  foe.  One  chronicler  writes  that  it  was  10.30  in  the 
evening  that  the  regiment,  obedient  to  orders,  filed  out  of 
its  quarters,  occupied  for  about  one  month,  and  with  the 
welcome  plaudit  of  "  Well  done  "  from  General  Mansfield, 
the  Long  Bridge  was  approached  for  the  third  time  within 
twelve  hours.  These  novices  in  military  matters  were  to 
learn  most  thoroughly,  in  their  ensuing  two  months  of  service, 
that  "  orders  "  are  not  always  what  they  seem. 

It  was  while  crossing  the  bridge  this  third  time  that 
ensued  a  memorable  incident  in  the  history  of  the  regiment. 
When  the  soldiers  filed  out  of  the  Treasury  building  and  quick 
ly  formed  in  line,  certain  Massachusetts  men,  interested 
observers  of  their  militant  fellow  citizens,  discovered  that 
the  organization  had  only  the  State  color,  the  national  ensign 
not  having  been  presented  on  leaving  Boston.  These  gentle 
men,  the  Hon.  G.  W.  McClelland,  A.  W.  Fletcher,  Captain 
Perkins  and  J.  Wesley  Jones,  began  a  search  for  "  Stars  and 
Stripes."  Happily  their  search  was  shortened  by  the  kindness 
of  Mr.  J.  D.  Hammack,  who  consented  to  sell  to  them  a  new 
cashmere  flag  of  the  finest  quality  which  the  ladies  had  made 
for  his  hotel.  Securing  a  carriage,  the  benefactors  overtook 
the  regiment  midway  of  the  bridge.  Colonel  Lawrence,  who 
was  at  the  right  of  the  regiment,  naturally  hastened  back  to 
find  what  was  occasioning  confusion  in  the  line. 

The  surprise  of  the  officer  may  be  imagined  when  the 
committee  stepped  forward  and  unfurled  to  the  breezes  of 
the  Potomac  a  beautiful  banner,  which  they  presented  to  him 
and  through  him  to  the  men  whom  he  commanded,  the 
presentation  being  made  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Jones  in  these  words:— 

Soldiers  of  Massachusetts!  A  title  rendered  illustrious  in 
the  early  struggle  for  freedom  on  this  continent,  and  now 
established  by  your  prompt  and  heroic  inauguration  of  the 


50  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

present  war  for  the  l^nion,  is  the  proudest  title  any  citizen 
of  the  world  can  bear. 

Soldiers  of  Massachusetts!  With  honor  you  have  borne 
the  beautiful  ensign  of  your  native  state,  even  within  the 
confines  of  the  enemies  of  human  freedom.  Having  rendered 
the  capital  of  our  beloved  country  safe,  you  now  march  towards 
the  Gulf! — ready  "  to  do  and  to  dare  "  for  the  true  and  the 
right,  which  is  your  country's  cause  and  that  of  liberty.  And 
we  bring  you  now  and  here,  on  this  dividing  line  between 
loyalty  and  treason,  the  flag  of  our  common  country — the 
flag  of  the  forever  United  States. 

Soldiers!  Thus  far  your  deeds  are  matters  of  history,  and 
noble  acts.  But  we  come  to  give  expression  to  the  feeling 
of  pride  which  we  have  as  Massachusetts  men,  at  the  uni 
versal  praise  accorded,  by  all  the  citizens  of  Washington,  for 
your  gentlemanly  bearing  and  noble  conduct  while  quar 
tered  in  the  capital.  Not  a  single  complaint  has  been  made 
by  any  citizen  of  Washington,  friend  or  foe,  of  any  uncivil 
act  by  any  Massachusetts  volunteer.  Bearing  this  high  rep 
utation,  you  now  advance,  not  as  a  conquering  army  to 
subjugate  and  enslave,  but  as  the  advance  guard  of  the  grand 
liberating  army  of  deliverances,  bearing  the  "  Stars  "  of  hope 
to  the  oppressed  lovers  of  liberty  in  the  South  and  the 
"  Stripes  "  of  justice  to  all  their  traitorous  oppressors.  For, 
bear  in  mind  that  though  ycu  will  contend  with  desperate 
villains  of  the  darkest  hue,  assassins  and  poisoners,  and  per 
jured  traitors,  there  are  yet  millions  of  the  white  race  in  the 
South  who,  like  good  old  Daniel,  daily,  with  their  hands 
outstretched  towards  the  heavens,  and  their  faces  eastward, 
pray  God  for  a  sight  of  your  advancing  columns  as  their  only 
salvation  from  a  bondage1  worse  than  death,  an  oppression 
more  terrible  than  Siberian  convict  rule.  As  soon  as  these 
noble  men  shall  dare  to  speak,  your  hands  will  be  strengthened 
and  your  hearts  cheered.  Go  on,  then,  ye  heralds  of  civiliza 
tion,  establishing  in  your  march  the  church,  the  school-house, 
the  Bible  and  the  Constitution  as  the  only  sure  foundation 
of  human  liberty.  In  your  veins  flows  the  blood  which  en 
sanguined  the  plains  of  Lexington  and  Concord,  and  ren 
dered  immortal  the  heights  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  which  has 
rebaptized  the  cause  of  human  liberty  in  the  streets  of  Balti 
more.  With  you,  we  can  trust  this  glorious  flag,  assured 
that  it  will  be  borne  to  higher  places  of  honor,  and  will  never 
cease  its  triumphant  march  until  every  secession  symbol 


MAY  26,  ?61.  ALEXANDRIA.  51 

shall  have  been  trampled  in  the  dust,  and  every  traitorous  en 
emy  shall  have  been  hung  in  mid-heaven,  or  be  forever  exiled 
from  the  land  which  he  has  cursed.  Bear  this  flag  on  every 
battle-field  for  liberty,  guard  it  well  and  long,  until  it  shall 
forever  wave  u  o'er  the  land  of  the  free  "  and  no  home  of  a 
dare ! 

To  this  eloquent  address  the  Colonel  responded  briefly 
though  feelingly,  receiving  the  flag  from  the  hands  of  his 
friends  and  thanking  them  both  for  himself  and  for  the  men 
whom  lie  led.  The  men  themselves  gave  three  rousing 
cheers  and,  with  the  heartiest  of  God's  blessings  for  the 
generous  donors,  there  was  soon  heard  again  the  command 
"  Forward!"  "  The  night  was  perfect;  a  full  moon  just- 
mounting  the  eastern  sky  cast  its  silvery  sheen  over  the 
rippling  waters  of  the  majestic  Potomac,  and  sparkled  on 
the  bayonets  of  a  thousand  muskets.  Campfires  and  signal 
lights  dotted  the  hills  on  both  sides,  making  a  picture  of  quiet 
beauty  never  to  be  forgotten." 

For  all  northern  soldiers,  the  Potomac  was  the  Rubicon, 
and  that  stream  surely  was  passed  when,  with  their  new  stand 
of  colors,  the  men  of  the  Fifth  entered  Virginia.  Reports 
differ  as  to  the  distance  covered  that  night,  but  evidently  they 
were  near  enough  to  Alexandria  to  warrant  the  curious  lads 
from  Massachusetts  to  inspect  whatever  part  of  the  city  they 
could  reach.  The  26th  was  Sunday,  and  the  regiment,  for 
greater  convenience  in  cam]),  moved  back  about  half  a  mile, 
filling  a  gap,  General  Sandford  said,  between  the  Twelfth  N.  Y. 
and  Alexandria,  near  a  muddy  stream  which  the  boys  on 
bathing  bent  discovered  to  be  filled  with  water-snakes,  the 
camp  receiving  the  appellation  of  u  Camp  Andrew/'  in  honor 
of  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth.  Some  antiquarian 
of  the  force  discovered  that  the  ground  had  been  occupied  in 
Revolutionary  days  by  General  Washington  and  that  careful 
search  revealed  traces  of  his  fortifications.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  the  distinguished  leader  saw  very  little  of  this  particular 
section  in  those  times.  His  pew  in  the  Alexandria  church 


52  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

the  soldiers  saw  and  occupied.  It  was  here  that  a  detach 
ment  of  men,  left  in  Washington  to  look  after  baggage,  etc., 
came  up  and  rejoined  the  regiment.  An  immediate  detail 
was  sent  into  the  city  for  guard  duty,  and  in  some  way  the 
Fifth  was  represented  there  as  long  as  it  stayed  in  the  vicinity. 
It  was  of  this  first  stop  that  Lieut.  Williams  (F)  states:  "  I  was 
detailed  with  a  guard  to  take  an  advanced  post  where  the 
railroad  crossed  the  road.  The  next  morning  early  I  could 
see  a  carriage  coming  down  the  road  with  an  officer  in  uniform, 
so  I  turned  out  the  guard  and  presented  arms  to  a  Major 
General,  who  proved  to  be  N.  P.  Banks,  Jr.,  our  Ex-Governor. 
When  informed  that  the  guard  was  of  the  Fifth  Massachusetts, 
he  said,  '  That  is  good.'  On  my  advising  him  not  to  go 
further,  he  turned  back  to  Washington." 

Work  upon  the  extensive  fortifications,  in  a  few  months  to 
completely  surround  the  District  of  Columbia,  was  early 
begun  and,  on  the  28th,  details  of  men  wended  their  way  to 
the  top  of  Shuter's  Hill  to  commence  the  erection  of  one  of 
the  most  extensive  of  all  the  forts  that  eventually  crowned  the 
summit  of  every  prominence  near  the  capital.  Covering- 
several  acres  of  area,  commanding  the  entire  vicinity,  the 
superintending  engineer  in  its  construction  was  Lieut.  Geo  W. 
Snyder  of  the  Corps  of  Engineers,  regular  army.  He  had 
been  with  Major  Anderson  in  the  defense  of  Fort  Sumter 
and  was  bre vetted  Captain  for  bravery  there.  He  was  No. 
1  in  the  Class  of  1856,  West  Point,  in  which  General  Geo.  D. 
Bayard,  k.  at  Fredericksburg,  Dec.  14,  '62,  was  No.  11  and 
Fitzhugh  Lee,  of  subsequent  fame,  was  No.  45,  there  being 
forty-nine  in  the  class.  Lieut.  Snyder  was  brevetted  Major  for 
gallantry  and  merit  during  the  Manassas  campaign,  from  whose 
exposures  he  was  furloughed  until  Nov.  17,  '61,  when  he  died  in 
Washington  at  the  early  age  of  28  years.  Started  so  soon 
after  the  melancholy  ending  of  Colonel  Ellsworth,  what  more 
natural  than  that  the  new  defense  should  bear  his  name  ? 
Working  with  the  Fifth  in  this  unwonted  occupation  of 
digging,  were  regular  details  from  the  First  Michigan,  which 


MAY  29,  '61.  ALEXANDRIA.  ")3 

was  camped  nearer  Alexandria;  Fourth  and  Fifth  Pennsylvania 
and  the  Eleventh  New  York,  Ellsworth's  regiment.  It  is  said 
that  men  of  the  1st  Minnesota  also  shoveled  dirt  in  this  impor 
tant  earthwork.  The  New  Yorkers  were  camped,  practically, 
on  the  hill  itself,  and  the  Fire  Zouaves  ought  to  have  worked 
with  a  will  on  the  commemorative  fort  whose  trenches  and 
embankments,  angles  and  complete  outlines  are  in  this  1910 
still  in  admirable  preservation,  a  magnificent  relic  of  fifty 
years  ago.  The  level  area  between  the  fort  and  the  brow  of 
the  hill  looking  towards  Washington  is  now  used  by  a  golf 
club,  and  the  Free  Masons  of  Alexandria  have  secured  a  por 
tion  as  the  site  for  another  monument  to  the  memory  of 
Washington,  the  corner-stone  already  being  in  place. 

A  map  of  the  period  places  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  rela 
tively  near  Alexandria,  with  the  camp  between  the  railroad 
and  the  Chesapeake  canal,  thus  accounting  perhaps  for  the 
sluggishness  of  the  stream  which  one  of  the  scribes  of  the  regi 
ment  noted.  The1  camp  of  William  Tecumseh  Sherman's  bat 
tery  was  a  little  south  of  a  direct  line  from  Camp  Andrew  to 
Shuter's  Hill,  where  were  had  the  daily  digging  stunts  and  whence 
in  the  westward  distance  could  be  plainly  seen  the  steeple  of 
Fairfax  Seminary,  then  in  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  Three 
hundred  men  with  three  hours'  work  each  day,  along  with 
similar  application  on  the  part  of  other  regiments,  told  rapidly 
and  the  frowning  ramparts  speedily  took  form  and  shape. 
Though,  in  the  main,  novices  in  the  use  of  pick  and  shovel, 
like  Massachusetts  men,  wherever  placed,  these  adapted 
themselves  to  the  situation  and  more  than  earned  their  limited 
wages.  May  27th  General  Irvin  McDowell  of  the  regular 
army  was  put  in  command  of  all  the  Union  forces  in  Virginia, 
and  Colonel  Charles  P.  Stone  was  ordered  from  Washington 
to  Alexandria  to  succeed  Colonel  ().  B.  Wilcox  of  the  First 
Michigan,  though  Stone  was  soon  relieved  by  Colonel  S.  P. 
Heinzelman  of  the  regulars  and  whom  it  w^as  the  fortune  of 
the  Fifth  to  follow  later  at  Bull  Run.  On  the  29th  came 
orders  to  be  ready  to  move  at  a  moment's  warning. 


54  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Though  the  call  was  not  immediate,  it  came  on  the  3d  of 
June,  when  the  regiment  moved  up  a  little  nearer  to  the  city 
and  planted  itself  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  to  the  southward 
of  the  fort  on  which  the  men  had  expended  so  much  strength. 
Reaching  this  point  at  (>  o'clock  p.m.,  the  new  camp  was 
dubbed  "  Massachusetts  "  for  obvious  reasons,  and  this  was 
the  Virginia  home  of  the  men  until  the  march  was  taken 
which  led  to  Bull  Run.  Incessant  rains  made  duty  of  every 
sort  extremely  difficult,  and  men  on  guard  were  subjected 
to  constant  annoyance  over  the  frequency  of  alarms.  June 
6th  a  detail  of  a  hundred  men  was  sent  into  Alexandria,  under 
the  command  of  Lieutenant  Shepard,  Co.  B,  the  latter  receiv 
ing  the  appointment  of  Provost  Marshal.  For  some  time, 
a  company  was  sent  each  day  into  the  city  to  act  as  guards, 
being  stationed  at  street  corners  to  examine  passes  and  main 
tain  a  general  supervision  of  the  city's  well  being.  Picket 
duty  called  the  men  to  the  outlying  country,  Falls  Church 
being  the  limit  in  that  direction,  and  here  one  night  the  man  on 
post  had  a  distinguished  visitor  in  the  person  of  Vice  President 
Hannibal  Hamlin,  the  gentleman  being  anxious  to  see  how  a 
rebel  looked  at  short  range1. 

On  one  dark,  stormy  night  a  private  found  himself  posted 
at  the  jail  steps  with  no  visible  communication  with  other 
posts,  but  his  remonstrance  availed  him  nothing.  He  had  been 
instructed,  if  attacked,  to  discharge  his  gun  and  run  for  quar 
ters.  Having,  besides  his  rifle,  a  five-chambered  revolver,  the 
sentry  made  up  his  mind  not  to  run.  The  situation  was  lonely 
enough  to  the  boy,  the  hour  past  midnight;  every  bush  was 
surely  an  enemy,  until  lightning  revealed  the  contrary.  Said 
lightning  also  suddenly  changed  a  seeming  man,  approaching, 
into  an  overgrown  dog  that  the  sentinel  was  about  to  challenge. 
Coaxing  the  animal  to  him,  he  was  forcibly  retained  by  the 
sentry's  suspenders,  temporarily  detached  for  such  purpose, 
and  with  this  canine  society,  the  darkness  seemed  more  toler 
able.  Between  1  and  2  a.  m.  came  a  very  smart  officer  with 
the  grand  round,  who,  to  the  guardsman's  challenge,  returned 


JUNE  3,  '(il.  ALEXANDRIA.  55 

the  wrong  word,  evidently  to  try  the  knowledge  and  nerve  of 
the  boy.  The  latter  was  behind  a  telegraph  pole  and  his 
response  was  for  the  officer  not  to  stir  a  step  from  his  tracks 
or  he  would  be  shot.  Once  more  a  lightning-flash  revealed 
the  soldier  with  leveled  musket  ready  to  fire,  whereupon  the 
officer  said  he  would  like  to  approach  and  give  the  true  word, 
but  he  was  told  that  if  he  moved,  he  did  so  at  his  peril,  and 
there  he  had  to  stay  until  the  "  relief,  "  certainly  so  in  his 
case,  came  around  and  released  him,  but  the  sentinel  was 
complimented  on  dress-parade  for  his  faithfulness. 

The  slave-pen  of  Price  and  Birch,  made  famous  throughout 
the  entire  North  through  the  "Life  of  Solomon  Northrup/'  was 
within  the  points  covered  by  the  men  of  the  Fifth,  and  the 
most  of  them  carried  away  with  them  memories  of  their  impres 
sions  when  they  first  saw  the  hateful  sign.  Though  they  may 
not  have  seen  the  sale  of  human  beings  from  the  auction-block, 
they  did  see  where  such  iniquity  was  practiced,  and  they  were 
only  too  glad  to  act  in  any  way  which  should  enhance  the  con 
dition  of  the  black  man  and  thereby  trouble  the  slave  holder. 
From  this  place  the  boys  took  a  colored  man,  for  whom  only 
one  name  had  been  found  up  to  this  time,  and  that  was  ''John.'1 
The  man  became  a  great  favorite  with  the  members  of  the  regi 
ment,  and  attaching  himself  to  the  person  of  Captain  Brastow 
of  Co.  I  as  a  body  servant  he  returned  to  Massachusetts  with 
the  latter  and  remained  in  Somerville  until,  hearing  from  his 
wife  in  the  South,  he  joined  her  there.  In  the  regiment  the 
negro  was  almost  as  well  known  as  the  Captain.  On  the  13th 
of  June,  when  on  battalion-drill,  Colonel  Lawrence  greatly 
pleased  his  men  by  telling  them  of  the  engagement  at  Big 
Bethel,  where  the  Fourth  Massachusetts  had  exhibited  distin 
guished  bravery.  Three  cheers  were  given  with  a  will  and 
then,  closed  in  mass  by  companies,  the  regiment  charged  upon 
an  imaginary  enemy. 

It  was  while  the  Fifth  was  in  Camp  Massachusetts  that 
Colonel  Lawrence  and  Lieut.-colonel  Greene  were  presented 
with  handsome  steeds,  duly  caparisoned  for  war  for  their  use 


56  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

during  the  approaching  campaign.  The  New  York  Express 
thus  tells  the  story:  "Elias  Howe,  Jr.,  of  New  York,  the  sewing- 
machine  millionaire,  presented  each  field  and  staff  officer  of 
the  Massachusetts  Fifth  Regiment  a  stallion,  fully  equipped 
for  service."  Evidently  the  number  was  a  little  in  excess  of 
the  truth,  but  the  latter  was  good  indeed.  The  inventor  of 
that  most  useful  machine,  himself  a  native  of  Spencer,  Mass., 
had  not  forgotten  his  native  State,  and  feats  of  generosity  were 
as  characteristic  of  him  then  as  when  later  himself  a  member 
(private)  of  the  Seventeenth  Connecticut  Infantry,  he  ad 
vanced  money  to  pay  off  the  entire  regiment. 

Venus,  Cupid  and  Mars  are  alike  of  celestial  origin,  hence 
it  would  be  impossible  for  a  regiment  of  men  to  camp  long  in 
the  Virginia  regions  without  some  incident  introducing  the 
winged  god  and  those  at  whom  his  arrows  fly.  A  certain 
maiden  from  the  direction  of  Leesburg  brought  milk  to  the 
camp  of  the  Fifth.  She  was  not  exactly  handsome,  being  too 
large  and  freckled,  but  she  was  a  woman,  and  that  was  enough 
for  at  least  two  impressionable  youths  from  the  Bay  State. 
One  of  the  boys  professed  to  be  deeply  smitten  and  was  invited 
to  call  with  his  friend.  She  said  she  had  a  piano  and  that  she 
could  sing  and  play.  The  young  men  went,  found  the  piano, 
the  thinnest  specimen  of  its  kind  they  had  ever  seen,  placed 
under  the  front  stairs  and  altogether  lacking  in  music,  but  the 
girl  thought  to  the  contrary  and  hammered  away,  to  the  dis 
traction  of  her  callers.  Neither  of  the  boys  was  a  very  good 
singer,  but  they  essayed  to  sing  "  Oh,  how  could  a  poor  gypsy 
countess  like  me,"  going  through  the  motions  of  laying  their 
fortunes  at  her  feet.  The  discord  was  terrible,  but  the  maiden 
thought  she  had  made  a  Yankee  conquest  sure.  How  long 
she  sighed  for  her  faithless  lovers,  they  never  knew. 

Friday,  June  14th,  brought  distinguished  visitors  to  the 
camp  in  the  persons  of  President  Lincoln  and  his  Secretaries 
of  War  and  the  Treasury,  Messrs.  Simon  Cameron  and  Salmon 
P.  Chase.  Of  this  visit,  a  letter  written  the  day  following  has 
this  description : 


JUNE  16,  'HI.  ALEXANDRIA.  57 

We  have  had  two  quite  exciting  clays.  Yesterday,  Presi 
dent  Lincoln  and  Secretaries  Chase  and  Cameron  honored 
Camp  Massachusetts  with  their  presence,  and  the  President 
reviewed  the  regiment.  He  expressed  himself  as  highly  grat 
ified  at  the  splendid  appearance  and  drill  of  the  Fifth,  and 
said  that  Massachusetts  might  well  be  proud  of  it  and  its 
efficient  Commander.  And,  by  the  way,  in  speaking  of  Colonel 
Lawrence  as  a  drill  officer,  one  of  our  best  colonels  in  the  regu 
lar  army,  after  witnessing  the  drill  yesterday,  declared  it 
the  most  perfect  and  effective  drill  he  had  seen  in  the  volun 
teer  militia,  with  especial  reference  to  the  double-quick  move 
ments  and  the  change  of  column  in  mass.  To-day  the  Alex 
andria  brigade;  with  the  Massachusetts  Fifth  on  the  right, 
paraded  through  the  city,  greatly  to  the  dismay  of  the  seces 
sionists  at  the  grand  display.  Sonic  of  the  more1  timid  re 
tired  to  their  homes,  and  tremblingly  averred  they  never  saw 
so  many  soldiers  before.  The  Fifth  was  praised  at  every 
point,  and  even  citizens  at  heart  secessionists  smile  upon 
the  Fifth;  for,  by  their  gentlemanly  conduct  and  soldierly 
bearing,  they  have  won  respect  and  are  called  by  them,  "  The 
Steady  Fifth."  The  boys  are  fully  equipped,  every  man 
having  forty  rounds  of  cartridges,  and  the  regiment  daily 
expects  orders  to  advance  farther  into  Virginia.  The  Colonel 
and  his  entire  command  are  in  fine  health  and  excellent 
spirits,  and  the  people  of  Massachusetts  may  rest  assured 
that  the  Fifth  will  give  a  good  account  of  itself  in  the  approach 
ing  conflict. 


Writing  on  the  16th  day  of  June,  Lieut.  Bowers  (G)  had 
this  to  offer  concerning  events  in  Camp  Massachusetts: 

Yesterday,  the  brigade  paraded  for  the  first  time  and 
marched  through  Alexandria.  It  made  a  very  imposing 
demonstration.  The  effect  upon  the  few  secessionists  left 
there  was  salutary  It  was  entirely  unexpected  to  them  and 
they  thought  we  were  on  the  march  to  Manassas.  Many  of 
the  women  who  have  brother;-,  sons  and  husbands  in  the 
southern  army  were  in  tears.  It  was  a  solemn  sight  and 
made  a  deep  impression.  I  send  you  the  latest  speech  made 
by  our  orator,  Asa  Melvin.  He  gave  it  last  Friday  evening, 
and  it  is  as  follows: 


58  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

"  Davis  is  a  traitor,  Davis  is  a  thief  ! 

Davis  steals  from  Uncle  Sam, 
Hut  soon  he'll  come  to  grief. 

Abe  will  go  to  Davis'  house, 
And  if  he  hasn't  fled, 

One  of  the  Concord  butcher  boys 
Will  chop  off  Davis's  head." 

This,  spoken  in  Asa's  inimitable  style,  made  a  good  deal  of 
sport. 

June  17th!  While  the  date  may  awaken  some  quickening 
thoughts  in  every  Massachusetts  man's  mind,  it  means 
almost  all  the  other  patriotic  days  of  the  year  rolled  into  one 
to  the  Oharlestown  born,  especially  if  he  happens  to  be  along 
in  the  impressionable  years.  Though  the  regiment  had  been 
routed  out  of  sleep  at  2  o'clock  in  the  morning  by  a  false 
report  of  the  approach  of  the  enemy,  the  two  Charlestown 
companies  were  none  the  less  prepared  for  the  celebration  on 
which  they  had  lotted,  and  for  which  they  had  made  due 
preparations.  In  a  neighboring  grove  they  had  spread  a  dinner 
and,  after  a  parade,  they  repaired  thither  and  partook  of  their 
feast  with  speeches  commemorative  of  Bunker  Hill,  having 
as  special  guests,  the  field,  staff  and  company  officers.  The 
next  day,  the  18th,  brought  to  the  South  Reading  Company 
(B)  a  number  of  home  visitors  in  the  person  of  Dr.  8.  ().  Rich 
ardson  and  his  son,  S.  O.,  Jr.,  Captain  Geo.  O.  Carpenter, 
Thomas  Emerson,  Charles  Copeland  and  John  Betuine. 
The  company  greeted  the  Captain  and  Dr.  Richardson  with 
three  rousing  cheers  and  the  entire  party  dined  with  the  sol 
diers,  all  enjoying  certain  delicacies  not  often  seen  in  camp. 
There  was  also,  this  day,  a  grand  review  of  troops  on  the  race 
course  near  the  Virginia  end  of  the  Long  Bridge.  Of  this 
parade,  the  Harper's  Weekly  of  July  6th,  with  accompanying 
double-paged  illustration,  says,  "  It  was  the  greatest  military 
display  ever  witnessed  in  this  country.  About  8000  troops 
were  on  the  field,  the  reviewing  officer  being  Simon  Cameron, 
the  Secretary  of  War."  Our  Fifth  Massachusetts  was  there 
along  with  three  regiments  from  New  Jersey,  as  many  from 


JUNE  25,  '61.  ALEXANDRIA.  59 

New  York  and  the  Fifth  Pennsylvania.  In  the  large  picture, 
Arlington,  the  long  time  home  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee 
appears  in  the  background. 

A  slight  touch  of  real  war  was  had  on  the  2()th  when  a  skir 
mish  arose  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city,  in  which  a  young  Con 
federate,  a  sergeant,  was  shot,  but  whose  body  was  not  carried 
off  by  his  comrades.  Men  of  Company  E  brought  it  in,  along 
with  five  or  six  men  whom  they  had  captured  in  the  brush. 
The  .sergeant  looked  like  a  man  not  accustomed  to  work, 
evidently  of  the  better  element  in  the  South.  Among  letters 
found  in  his  pocket  was  one  from  his  sister,  saying  that  she 
would  send  to  him  the  rubber  cover  of  her  piano  to  serve1  him 
for  a  blanket,  a  use  that  the  missiles  of  the  Union  men  had 
prevented.  He  was  well  armed,  having  two  nice  pistols,  one 
of  which  had  never  been  loaded.  Private  Beckwith  of  B,  in 
his  rummaging  around,  found  a  heavy  iron  hand-cuff  used  in 
restraining  slaves  and  duly  sent  it  home  to  South  Reading, 
long  an  object  of  curiosity  to  the  dwellers  there. 

Tuesday,  June  25th,  at  dress-parade  Lieut. -colonel  Greene, 
Major  Keyes  and  Adjutant  Barri,  having  been  promoted  to 
positions  in  the  regular  army,  took  leave  of  the  regiment,  ex 
pressing  their  regret  at  leaving  the  men  and  trusting,  into 
whatever  peril  war  might  direct  them,  that  they  would  sus 
tain  their  honor  and  credit.  This  separation  was  viewed  with 
a  deal  of  regret  by  the  entire  regiment,  the  officers  being 
splendidly  equipped  for  their  respective  places  and  all  of 
them,  as  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  the  roster,  to  fall  upon 
the  battle-field  in  later  months.  It  was  not  strange  that  a 
numerously  signed  letter  to  Senator  Henry  Wilson  was  sent 
requesting  him  to  use  his  influence  in  retaining  these  officers 
in  the  Fifth  until  its  term  was  over,  but  it  seems  that  nothing 
came  of  the  effort.  To  their  efficiency,  the  regiment  owed 
much,  and  all  were  ready  to  express  hearty  appreciation. 

July,  the  third  and  final  month  of  the  Fifth's  first  term  of 
service,  began  on  Monday  and  the  continued  drill  to  which 
the  men  had  been  subjected  bore  excellent  fruit  in  a  degree 


()()  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

of  proficiency  in  which  the  men  themselves  took  particular 
pride.  Wednesday,  the  3d,  the  regiment  set  up  in  front  of  the 
Colonel's  quarters  a  fine  flag-pole,  that  the  same  might  be 
ready  for  the  morrow.  This  day  also  marked  the  camping 
near  by  of  the  1st  Minnesota,  a  regiment  which  in  coming- 
years  is  to  win  imperishable  fame.  Its  men  had  a  part,  though 
a  small  one,  in  the  construction  of  Fort  Ellsworth.  While  the 
celebration  of  June  17th  was,  in  a  manner,  restricted  to  the 
Chariest  own  companies,  there  was  nothing  of  a  local  character 
in  the  way  all  hands  united  in  doing  honor  to  the  ever  glorious 
Fourth. 

There  was  never  a  time  when  the  spirit  of  mischief  did 
not  assert  itself  under  due  provocation.  Fun  that  does 
not  annoy  someone  is  hardly  sufficient  for  many,  hence  the 
commotion  that  spread  through  the  camp  on  the  night  be 
fore.  The  officer  in  whose  charge  the  keeping  of  the  cam]) 
was  could  not  cover  all  of  the  points  at  once,  hence  it  was 
not  long  before  the  sinks  and  the  cook-houses  were  ablaze. 
Of  course,  no  one  knew  who  the  offenders  were,  but  when, 
on  the  day  itself,  instead  of  celebrating  with  their  fellows, 
certain  roistering  youths  were4  put  on  police  duty  to  repair 
damages,  those  who  looked  on  observed  that  probably  few 
mistakes  had  been  made  in  the  detail. 

Sunrise  beheld  the  men  marching  to  the  flag-staff,  where  the 
national  colors  were  flung  out  with  enthusiastic  cheering. 
For  two  hours  there  was  band  music  in  front  of  regimental 
headquarters.  At  noon,  after  forming  line  on  the  parade 
ground,  the  men  marched  to  the  shade  of  a  great  tree,  formed 
a  square,  with  Colonel  Lawrence  and  staff  within.  After 
preliminary  remarks  by  the  Colonel,  all  listened  to  the  read 
ing  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  by  Chaplain  De 
Costa,  who  followed  with  an  appropriate  prayer,  while  every 
one  united  in  the  singing  of  America  and  the  Star  Spangled 
Banner.  The  firing  of  thirty-four  guns  called  attention  to 
the  number  of  states,  then  in  or  out  of  the  Union,  while  an 
admirable  address  by  Colonel  Lawrence  touched  on  a  variety 


JULY  4,  '61.  ALEXANDRIA.  (U 

of  subjects  pertinent  to  the  regiment  and  the  occasion.  His 
remarks  drew  forth  rousing  applause  from  the  men,  accom 
panied  by  cheers  for  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 

The  next  move  was  to  dinner,  where  the  accustomed  monot 
ony  was  varied  by  such  unusual  dishes  as  roast  lamb,  green 
peas  and  other  luxuries.  The  evening  was  devoted  to  fire 
works,  the  centre-piece  in  which  was  a  large  dead  tree  with 
thick,  dry  foliage,  which  was  set  on  fire,  and  into  the  flames, 
folded  newspapers,  containing  packs  of  fire-crackers,  were 
thrown  with  such  other  freaks  and  fancies  as  unrestrained 
Young  America  could  devise.  Again  there  were  refreshments, 
music  by  the  band  and  three  times  three  for  the  flag,  before 
the  men  dispersed  to  their  tents,  satisfied  that  the  day  had 
been  properly  observed  once  more.  While  the  "  boys  "  in 
camp  were  thus  jubilant,  others  of  the  Fifth,  on  duty  in  Alex 
andria,  were  enjoying  a  lawn-party  with  Union  citizens,  who 
were  the  very  soul  of  hospitality. 

July  4th  was  noteworthy  also  from  another  fact,  since  on 
this  day  twenty-seven  recruits  were  mustered  in.  They  were 
mainly  from  Woburn,  members  of  the  company  of  the  Fifth 
that  had  been  disbanded  just  before  the  war  began,  but 
filled  with  martial  ardor  they  got  together  fifty  men  and 
marched  to  Boston,  hoping  to  form  a  part  of  the  regiment. 
They  were  too  late  and  while  many  went  into  other  organiza 
tions,  these  men,  the  recruits,  were  finally  admitted.  Their 
enlistments  are  set  down  as  early  in  June,  but,  owing  to  war's 
delays,  they  did  not  really  join  till  their  muster-in  as  above. 
They  were  distributed,  fifteen  to  G,  ten  to  I  and  one  each  to 
Companies  B  and  F.  One  of  these  men,  Edwin  F.  Wyer, 
of  I,  had  been  Third  Lieutenant  of  his,  the  Woburn  Company. 
The  5th  day  brought  another  visit  from  Governor  Andrew, 
who  was  assiduous  in  his  care  for  the  soldiers.  After  a  hasty 
examination  of  the  quarters  of  the  men  and  testing  the  quality 
of  their  food,  with  all  of  which  he  pronounced  himself  highly 
pleased,  and  having  been  introduced  to  the  line  officers,  the 
regiment  was  formed  in  mass  on  the  parade  and  Colonel 


02  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Lawrence  introduced  the  Governor  to  the  men.  The  War  Gov 
ernor  of  Massachusetts  was  ever  happy  in  his  remarks  to 
soldiers,  and  never  was  he  more  so  than  when,  at  this  time,  he 
told  the  "  boys  "  of  the  maternal  care  that  the  Common 
wealth  had  for  her  children  and  of  her  readiness  to  welcome 
them  home  again  when  their  service  was  complete,  and  of  the 
excellent  officers  he  knew  the  men  would  make  in  the  three 
years'  regiments  then  being  recruited.  The  regiment  received 
the  Governor  most  heartily  and  cheered  him  to  the  echo. 
This  was  only  one  of  the  many  visits  made  to  Washington  by 
Governor  Andrew,  not  alone  for  the  purpose  of  interviewing 
the  President  and  seeing  his  soldiers,  but  as  a  sort  of  respite 
from  the  incessant  cares  that  besot  him  when  on  duty  in 
Boston. 

It  was  on  this  same  5th  day  that  the  vacancies  made  by 
the  departure  of  the  Lieut. -colonel,  Major  and  Adjutant 
wore  filled  by  the  election  of  Captain  George  H.  Peirson  (A), 
senior  captain,  to  the  place  of  Lieut. -col.  Greene,  and  Captain 
John  T.  Boyd  (K)  to  the  Majority,  vacated  by  Major  Keyes, 
while  Lieut.  John  G.  Chambers  (E)  was  appointed  Adjutant. 
The  week  that  was  ending  witnessed  the  completion  ot  Fort 
Ellsworth,  and  thereby  the  resumption  of  more  frequent  and 
more  prolonged  periods  of  drill,  which,  after  all,  is  the  prime 
requisite  for  good  soldiers.  June  23d,  the  indiscriminating 
giving  of  revolvers  to  the  men  bore  fruit  when  Wm.  H.  Rich 
ardson,  a  Stoneham  boy  of  Company  F,  only  eighteen  years 
old,  in  handling  his  "  shooting-iron  "  was  fatally  injured,  dying 
on  the  7th  of  July.  He  was  the  recipient  of  every  possible* 
kindness  on  the  part  of  his  comrades,  both  officers  and  men, 
but  they  could  not  keep  him  alive,  and  his  death  was  the  first 
fatality  in  the  regiment,  resulting  in  more  stringent  rules  as 
to  the  possession  of  such  weapons.  That  one  touch  of  nature 
which  makes  the  whole  world  kin  was  shown  in  the  taking  of 
a  collection  throughout  the  regiment,  resulting  in  the  raising 
of  more  than  $150  to  pay  the  home  going  expenses  of  the 
dead  soldier  and  those  of  his  father,  who  was  with  him  during 


ALEXANDRIA.  (M 

the  most  of  the  time  after  the  accident.  The  boy's  chief 
regret  was  that  he  had  run  away  from  home  to  enlist.  Lieut. 
Sleeper  of  F  Company  accompanied  the  body  to  Massachu 
setts.  The  following  week,  Saturday,  the  13th,  came  orders 
to  pack  all  personal  baggage  and  to  place  it  in  Alexandria  in 
expectation  of  breaking  camp  and  a  long  march.  Some  one 
has  written  that  about  this  time  Generals  McDowell  and 
Franklin  rode  on  the  grounds,  and  the  regiment,  being;  formed 
in  hollow  square,  the  distinguished  officers  were  introduced  by 
Colonel  Lawrence  to  the  men.  whom  the  Generals  successively 
addressed,  saying  that  their  term  of  enlistment  was  about  to 
expire,  that  it  was  for  them  to  decide  whether  they  draw  out 
of  line  and  go  home,  or  stay  till  the  emergency  was  over,  thus 
winning  glory  and  victory.  To  the  everlasting  credit  of 
Massachusetts  soldiers  be  it  said  that,  to  a  man,  they  chose  the 
latter  course  and  stayed  in  the  ranks,  a  marked  contrast  to 
certain  regiments  from  other  states  which,  under  the  same 
circumstances,  withdrew  from  their  positions  when  actually 
on  their  way  to  Bull  Run.  Forever  blessed  be  the  soldier  who 
marches  to  the  sound  of  the  enemy's  guns  and  never  flinches, 
no  matter  what  the  provocation. 

The  regiment  was  ordered  to  take  three  days'  rations  and 
be  ready  to  march  at  daybreak.  On  Colonel  Lawrence's 
informing  the  Generals  that  there  were  only  one  half  day's 
rations  on  hand,  he  was  promised  a  new  supply  that  very 
night.  Though  they  did  not  arrive  until  midnight,  the  array 
of  cooks  was  sufficient  to  have'  the  food  properly  prepared 
for  the  time  of  departure.  Among  those  who  thus  gave  the 
night  to  cooking  were  Willard  C.  Kingsley,  for  whom  the 
Somerville  Post  of  the  G.  A.  R.  was  subsequently  named, 
and  Joseph  G.  Giles,  also  of  Somerville.  The  16th  began 
early  and  was  a  busy  day.  The  knapsacks  were  packed  and 
left  in  cam]).  Blankets  were  rolled  and  suspended  from  the 
shoulders.  Three  days'  rations  were  stored  in  the  haversacks 
and  in  this  light  marching  order  the  advance  began.  "  On 
to  Richmond  "  had  been  the  cry  of  the  newspapers  for  weeks, 


64  P'IFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

and  in  a  half  organized  condition  the  troops  were  setting  out 
on  a  warlike  errand.  Luckily  for  them,  the  forces  they  were 
about  to  assail  were  in  the  very  same  inexperienced  state  as 
themselves.  Both  sides  were  to  know  a  great  deal  more,  a 
year  from  this  time. 

Brigadier-general  Irvin  McDowell,  U.  S.  A.,  was  in  command 
and  it  is  interesting  to  note  the  officers  who  served  upon  his 
staff,  men  later  to  achieve  distinction  of  a  high  order,  as 
James  B.  Fry,  John  G.  Barnard,  A.  W.  Whipple,  H.  L.  Abbot, 
Geo.  C.  Strong,  Jas.  S.  Wadsworth  and  Guy  V.  Henry,  three 
of  whom,  as  Major  Generals,  were  to  perish  in  battle.  The 
five  grand  divisions  were  commanded  by  Brig. -Gen.  Daniel 
Tyler  (1st),  Colonel  David  Hunter  (2d),  Colonel  Samuel  P. 
Heintzelman  (3d),  Brig. -Gen.  Theodore  Runyaii  (4th,  this 
was  not  engaged)  and  Colonel  Dixon  S.  Miles  (5th).  The 
three  brigades  of  the  3d  Division  were  commanded  in  one, 
two  and  three  order  by  Colonels  Wm.  B.  Franklin,  Orlando 
B.  Wilcox  and  Oliver  ().  Howard,  each  officer  to  wear  two 
starred  shoulder  straps  ere  many  months.  Associated  with 
our  Fifth  Regiment  in  the  First  Brigade  were  the  llth  Massa 
chusetts  and  the  First  Minnesota  along  with  a  battery  of  Light 
Artillery  commanded  by  Captain  James  B.  Rickets,  another 
future  Major  General.  The  First  Michigan  and  the  N.  Y. 
Fire  Zouaves  associated  with  the  Fifth  in  building  Fort 
Ellsworth  were  in  the  Second  Brigade.  Except  for  a  very  few 
who  had  seen  active  service  in  the  Mexican  War  every  one  of 
these  soldiers  was  ignorant  of  battle  sensations. 

BULL  RUN. 

The  route  was  over  Shuter's  Hill  and  towards  Centerville, 
almost  directly  westward,  halting  for  the  night  near  Pohick 
church,  famous  for  its  associations  with  Washington,  and 
being  about  seven  miles  from  Mt.  Vernon.  During  this  day's 
march,  the  Fifth,  being  at  the  right  of  Franklin's  Brigade  and 
that  body  leading  the  division,  it  was  the  lot  of  the  regiment 


JULY  17,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  65 

to  lead  the  column.  Companies  D  and  E  were  deployed  as 
skirmishers.  The  halt  for  the  night  was  at  7  o'clock 
and  at  8.30  there  was  an  alarm  given,  followed  by  the 
bringing  in  of  a  prisoner  and  the  killing  of  his  horse;  the 
advance  was  resumed  at  7  a.  m.  of  the  17th  with  Com 
panies  A  and  K  acting  as  skirmishers.  Fifty  men  from 
the  Fifth  Regiment  and  as  many  from  the  First  Minnesota 
had  been  detailed  at  Alexandria  as  pioneers.  Each  man 
supplied  with  an  axe,  his  gun  slung  across  his  back  by  the 
strap,  the  hundred  men  march  close  behind  the  skirmishers. 
The  march  was  cautious,  the  pioneers  cutting  away  large  trees, 
felled  by  the  enemy  to  obstruct  the  roads,  in  some  cases  mak 
ing  new  ways  through  the  woods.  At  noon  Company  C  was 
sent  forward  to  relieve  Company  K.  The  skirmishers  found 
their  labors  exceedingly  difficult  as  they  proceeded  through 
swamps  and  dense  woods,  the  men  spreading  out  at  a  consider 
able  distance  apart  on  each  side  of  the  road.  The  enemy  was 
seen  at  intervals,  but  generally  out  of  range;  owing  to  the  cir 
cuitous  route  taken  by  the  force  the  people  were  unaware  of 
the  advance,  but  rebel  pickets  and  scouts  soon  spread  the  news, 
so  that  the  country  was  aroused.  Everywhere  could  be  seen 
traces  of  the  late  presence  of  the  enemy  who  had  fled  hastily. 
Some  Union  people  were  found  who  rejoiced  at  seeing  again 
the  Stars  and  Stripes.  Rebel  camps  were  found  whence  the 
enemy  had  departed  so  quickly  that  they  had  time  only  to  fire 
a  parting  shot,  leaving  their  outfit  and  food  uneaten.  An 
earthwork  also  was  found,  but  no  attempt  was  made  to 
defend  it. 

It  was  3  p.m.  when  the  troops  reached  Sangster's  Station 
on  the  Orange  &  Alexandria  Railroad,  where,  it  was  hoped, 
the  enemy,  retiring  from  Fairfax  Court  House,  might  be  inter 
cepted,  but  the  retreat  had  been  too  rapid  for  the  pursuer,  and 
in  their  flight  the  rebels  had  burned  two  bridges,  to  make 
their  retirement  all  the  more  effectual.  Evidently  they  had 
no  expectation  of  returning.  Had  the  Union  force  been  an 
hour  earlier  the  hostile  army  had  been  encountered  and 
5 


66  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

possibly  the  entire  array  captured.  The  men  were  pleased 
at  seeing  their  Colonel  riding  both  days  at  the  head  of  the 
skirmishers  and  pioneers,  ready  for  any  emergency,  evidently 
disposed  to  share  any  peril  that  might  be  encountered.  The 
march  had  been  twelve  miles  in  distance,  long  enough  for  men 
quite  unused  to  such  exactions,  and  all  were  ready  for  the 
bivouac  in  a  mown  field,  on  the  edge  of  a  wood,  near  the  rail 
road,  where  they  enjoyed  the  sleep  which  followed  the  exhaust 
ing  march  of  the  day.  As  the  tents  had  been  left  behind, 
camping  meant  simply  rolling  oneself  in  his  blanket  and  lying 
down  to  such  dreams  as  sleep  might  offer. 

At  9.30  a.m.  of  the  18th,  Captain  Messer,  Co.  D,  con 
ducted  a  scouting  party  of  forty  men,  passing  southward 
towards  the  Occoquan  River  and  on  the  south  side  of  the 
railroad.  Engaging  the  enemy's  picket  at  Wolf  Run  Shoals, 
eight  miles  from  Sangster's,  they  killed  one  of  the  foe  and 
captured  the  picket-roll.  The  party  did  not  rejoin  the  regi 
ment  until  9.30  in  the  evening  at  Centreville.  A  little  after 
noon  of  this  day,  the  sound  of  battle-volleys  smote  upon  the 
ears  of  these  inexperienced  men.  The  fight  was  at  Blackburn's 
Ford,  four  miles  below  the  site  of  the  greater  engagement, 
to  follow  on  the  21st.  Beauregard  had  supposed  that  the  gen 
eral  attack  was  to  be  at  this  point  and  had  ordered  his  forces 
accordingly,  but  it  was  only  a  feint  on  the  Union  part.  Here 
the  Massachusetts  First  Regiment  had  its  introduction  to 
battle's  din  and  suffered  considerably.  It  was  the  threshold 
of  the  Confederacy,  barely  approached  by  the  invader,  over 
which  he  was  to  make  a  mighty  effort  to  step  three  days 
later.  Not  until  5  p.m.  did  the  regiment  leave  its  camping- 
place  and  start  for  Centreville,  having  the  marching  accom 
paniment  of  a  severe  thunder-shower.  Four  hours  later  the 
Fifth  halted  in  a  grain-field  and  camped.  The  sight  of  the 
camp-fires  of  30,000  men  was  not  only  a  novelty,  it  was  an 
inspiration  to  these  men,  mere  novices  in  the  art  and  circum 
stance  of  war. 

The  19th  brought  pretty  full  accounts  of  the  disaster  at 


68  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Blackburn's  the  day  before;  many  a  man  was  wondering  how 
fared  his  friends  in  the  First  Regiment,  and  not  a  few  looked 
forward  to  coming  events  wTith  apprehension,  for  every  one 
knew  that  a  great  battle  was  impending.  Owing  to  the  ex 
treme  heat,  brush  tents  were  erected  by  officers  and  men  in 
the  effort  to  ward  off  some  of  the  sun's  rays.  The  unusual 
record  of  divine  services  on  a  week  day  is  had  for  8  o'clock 
p.m.  of  this  day.  Also  an  incident  of  quite  another  character 
is  recounted  to  the  effect  that,  early  in  the  morning,  a  flock 
of  about  fifty  sheep  was  seen  coming  out  of  a  neighboring- 
grove.  Never  did  the  inborn  predatory  nature  of  the  soldier 
more  quickly  assert  itself.  Apparently  simultaneously, 
twice  as  many  men  as  there  were  sheep  started  from  the  many 
regiments  in  sight  and  rounded  up  that  flock  in  far  less  time 
than  it  takes  to  tell  the  story,  and  when  they  wrere  through, 
not  a  sheep  escaped  being  turned  into  toothsome  mutton,  our 
Yankee  boys  getting  their  full  share. 

Small  Virginia  villages  attained  sudden  fame  in  these  early 
days  of  the  war.  Centreville,  half  a  mile  from  the  camp,  was 
a  hamlet  of  a  few  single-story  structures,  fated  to  be  more 
talked  about  during  the  coming  week  than  it  ever  had  been 
or  would  be  again.  Certain  of  these  active,  inquisitive  men, 
in  spite  of  the  heat  of  July  20th,  spied  out  what  there  was  to 
be  seen  in  the  village,  visited  General  McDowell's  head 
quarters  and  some  of  the  batteries,  and  then  passed  on  to  the 
cross-roads  on  the  Warrenton  turnpike,  thus  reaching  the 
outside  picket  station,  whence  could  be  seen  the  grove  near 
which  the  fight  of  the  18th  took  place.  An  unexploded  six- 
pound  shell  was  picked  up  here,  and  having  been  sent  back  to 
South  Reading,  was  for  some  time  exhibited  in  the  local 
armory,  to  meet  the  fate,  however,  of  nearly  all  such  explo 
sives,  thirty  years  later,  Sept.  3,  1891,  when  the  barn  of 
James  Eustis  was  burned.  At  2.30  p.m.  rations  for  three 
days  were  distributed  and  orders  given  to  be  ready  to  march 
at  6  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  subsequently  changed  to  "  soon 
after  midnight." 


JULY  21,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  69 

It  was  not  strange  that  men  were  wakeful  during  that 
night:  visions  of  home  and  mother  danced  before  many  an 
eye,  and  the  call  to  "  fall  in  lively  "  was  rather  a  welcome 
sound  than  otherwise,  and  this  was  heard  between  one  and 
two  in  the  morning.  Rations  must  have  been  eaten  hurriedly, 
for  soon  after  2  a.m.  line  was  formed  and  the  regiment 
marched  a  short  distance,  only  to  be  halted  and  to  remain 
thus  till  half  past  four,  all  owing,  it  appeared  later,  to  the 
tardiness  of  the  First  Division  under  Tyler.  It  should  be 
stated  that  the  Confederate  army  lay  in  detachments  behind 
Bull  Run  at  five  different  fords,  along  a  line  of  eight  miles. 
The  left  or  northernmost  flank  was  at  the  stone  bridge,  where1 
the  Warrenton  turnpike  crosses  Bull  Run,  though  McDowell 
supposed  it  to  extend  to  the  next  ford  above.  The  fight  at 
Blackburn's  Ford  had  been  at  the  extreme  rebel  right,  and 
there  Beauregard  supposed  the  battle  would  be  resumed. 
Indeed  he  and  Johnston,  who  had  arrived  with  reinforcements, 
had  determined  to  advance  their  own  forces  this  Sunday  morn 
ing  and  to  attack  Centreville  with  all  possible  strength,  but 
the  signal  guns  of  the  Union  army  told  them  that  their  plan 
was  forestalled. 

The  orders  for  the  day  were  for  Tyler's  First  Division  to 
move  on  the  stone  bridge  with  all  of  his  force,  except  Richard 
son's  brigade,  which  was  still  to  menace  Beauregard  at  Black 
burn's,  while  the  Second  and  Third  Divisions  under  Hunter 
and  Heintzelman,  respectively,  were  to  march  northward  and, 
crossing  Bull  Run  at  Sudley's  Ford,  fall  upon  the  rear  of  the 
enemy,  who  was  supposed  to  be  in  force  beyond  the  stone 
bridge.  Colonel  Miles's  Fifth  Division  was  to  remain  in 
reserve  at  Centreville,  while  General  Runyon's  Fourth  was 
still  farther  in  the  rear,  between  Centreville  and  Alexandria. 
Just  three  months  to  a  day  from  leaving  Faneuil  Hall,  the 
Fifth  was  marching  into  battle.  It  was  soon  after  passing- 
through  Centreville  that  two  organizations  were  passed 
whose  time  being  out,  they  were  determined  to  go  away  from 
rather  than  towards  the  enemy.  Turning  deaf  ears  to  the 


70  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

entreaties  of  General  McDowell,  these  men,  not  New  Eng- 
landers,  marched  back  towards  Washington,  leaving  their 
comrades  to  their  fate.  Technically,  these  men  were  within 
the  letter  of  the  law,  but  measured  by  the  standard  of  brave 
men  the  world  over,  they  were  deserving  of  severest  condem 
nation.  It  should  be  recorded  that  the  Pennsylvania  Colonel 
went  to  the  field,  serving  on  the  staff  of  Colonel  Franklin. 


OLD  STONE  HOUSE,   1910. 

Following  Tyler  and  his  First  Division  until  over  Cub  Run, 
the  Second  and  Third  Divisions  turned  northward,  and  after 
a  heated  march  of  about  ten  miles,  reached  the  ford  at  Sud- 
ley  Church.  The  woods  through  which  a  considerable  part 
of  the  march  was  made  lessened  somewhat  the  severity  of 
the  test,  but  the  scarcity  of  water  occasioned  great  discom 
fort.  The  last  mile  or  two  of  the  advance,  on  account  of  the 
noise  of  battle,  had  been  made  at  a  double  quick,  a  severe 


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trial  at  any  time,  especially  so  under  a  broiling  sun.  There 
was  little  pause  for  rest,  since  to  the  southward  their  comrades 
in  blue  were  facing  the  enemy  and  in  sore  need  of  aid.  The 
stream  was  forded  and,  after  depositing  blankets  in  heaps, 
by  organizations  where  possible,  the  men  in  response  to  the 
command,  "  Fifth  Massachusetts,  forward;  double  quick, 
march!"  were  off  to  do  and  die.  For  the  first  time  they  see 
friend  and  foe,  dead  and  dying;  it  is  a  time  to  test  the  stoutest 
soul,  whizzing  bullet  and  screaming  shell  making  wild  music 
in  these  unfamiliar  ears.  Taking  their  position  on  the  brow 
of  a  hill,  directly  in  front  of  the  rebel  batteries,  they  are 
ordered  to  fall  flat  on  their  faces,  thus  permitting  the  shot  of 
the  enemy's  cannon  to  pass  harmlessly  over  them.  Some  one 
beholding  the  sight  says  this  of  the  scene: 

I  saw  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  in  their  dark  uniforms  and 
their  steady  advance  under  the  enemy's  fire  of  shot  and  shell; 
I  noticed  them  some  distance  off;  they  came  into  the  field 
by  a  flank  movement,  and  then  into  column,  with  as  much 
coolness  as  if  they  had  been  on  an  ordinary  muster-field. 
They  then  had  to  pass  over  an  open  field,  exposed  to  the  full 
fire  of  the  rebel  batteries,  but  they  did  not  waver  in  the  least. 
They  were  ordered  by  Colonel  Franklin  to  take  and  hold  a 
position  on  the  brow  of  a  hill,  in  front  of  the  enemy's  batteries. 
Here  I  first  saw  their  Colonel  (Lawrence)  at  their  head.  He 
is  tall  and  slim,  with  dark  hair.  He  is  quite  young,  not  more 
than  twenty-five.  They  took  their  positions  in  perfect  order 
and  fought  bravely. 

Another  observer  says: 

The  boys  were  no  ways  abashed  by  this  hot  reception,  but 
took  the  whole  thing  very  cooly,  waiting  very  patiently  to 
"  pitch  in "  again.  The  firing  now  was  perfectly  terrific 
and  it  seemed  at  times  as  if  the  heavens  would  burst  asunder 
with  the  concussion.  Colonel  Lawrence,  standing  the  most 
of  the  time  in  the  middle  of  the  regiment,  used  his  utmost 
efforts  to  keep  the  men  calm,  in  their  places,  close  to  the 
ground  out  of  the  way  of  the  shot,  which  went  singing  their 
peculiar  death-song  three  or  four  feet  above  them.  Several 
of  the  men  were  wounded  by  the  bursting  of  a  shell,  and  Pri- 


72  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

vate  Angler  (K)  was  wounded  by  a  six-pound  shot  in  his 
leg.  This  rest  (lying  close  to  the  ground)  afforded  great  relief 
to  the  men  whose  mouths  were  parched  with  thirst;  the 
scarcity  of  water,  the  rapid  marching  and  double-quick  motion 
having  well  nigh  exhausted  them.  A  field  officer  rode  up 
and  inquired,  "  What  regiment  of  regulars  is  this?"  The  men 
answered,  "  We  are  not  regulars,  we  are  the  Fifth  Massa 
chusetts."  He  replied,  "Is  it  possible!  I  thought  you 
were  regulars,  you  are  in  such  perfect  order  under  fire." 

In  the  advance  Color-bearer  Lawrence  (E),  while  bravely 
waving  the  flag,  was  shot  dead  by  a  musket  ball,  shot  through 
the  breast.  Corporal  Wallace  (D),  himself  wounded,  already 
bearing  the  State  ensign,  seized  the  national  flag  as  it  fell 
from  Lawrence's  hands,  and  carried  both  gallantly,  until 
Sergeant-major  Quincy,  grasping  the  State  colors,  bore  them 
forward  with  equal  gallantry.  Colonel  Lawrence,  who  had 
so  bravely  stood  where  others  were  lying  prone,  was  wounded 
and  when  the  retreat  began  was  carried  to  the  rear.  The 
Colonel's  escape  with  his  life  he  ascribed  to  his  college  class 
mate,  Paymaster  George  F.  Hodges  (vide  Roster).  In  an 
account  of  the  classmate,  prepared  for  Harvard's  memorial 
volume,  Colonel  Lawrence  wrote: 

Just  at  the  close  of  the  battle,  I  was  wounded  while  near 
the  right  of  the  regiment.  Hodges  came  up  and  ordered  the 
men  to  carry  me  to  the  rear.  He  had  me  put  into  an  ambu 
lance,  which  is  the  last  thing  I  remember  then,  for  I  became 
insensible.  Four  or  five  men,  I  believe,  accompanied  the 
ambulance  a  short  distance.  In  the  confusion  of  the  general 
retreat  the  others,  supposing  me  almost  dead,  and  that  it 
was  impossible  for  me  to  survive,  all  left  me ;  but  not  so 
Hodges.  He  took  me  out  of  the  ambulance,  which  the  driver 
had  left,  and  bearing  me  over  a  fence  into  a  wood,  supported 
me  against  a  tree.  He  told  me  that  all  had  gone,  and  that  I 
should  probably  soon  be  taken  a  prisoner,  but  that  he  would 
stay  with  me  and  be  taken  too.  I  told  him  to  go,  for  it  was 
bad  enough  for  one  to  be  captured.  "No,"  said  he,  "  I  shall 
stay,  for  it  is  not  right  to  leave  you,  our  Colonel,  helpless 
here  alone;  and  besides,  I  want  you  to  understand,  I  will 
not  desert  a  classmate."  And  so  he  stayed  until  assistance 


JULY  21,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  73 

came.  By  Hodges'  means,  I  escaped  captivity  at  that  time 
and  probably  death.  He  was  a  noble  fellow  and  no  one 
could  wish  a  better  friend. 

The  Fifth  left  the  field  in  some  confusion,  mostly  by  com 
panies,  but  was  soon  together  again,  and  under  the  command 
of  Major  Boyd,  marched  by  the  morning  route  of  Sudley's 
Ford  to  the  former  camping-place  in  Centreville.  Lieut. - 
colonel  Peirson  had  gone  to  the  relief  of  the  wounded  Colonel, 
hence  the  Major  in  the  lead.  On  reaching  their  late  bivouac, 
regimental  line  was  formed,  arms  were  stacked,  a  guard  was 
set  and  the  men  lay  down  for  a  night's  rest.  There  surely 
was  no  indication  of  a  frightened  "  run-away  "  here.  Return 
ing  to  the  field  itself,  a  few  words  of  general  survey  are  in 
place.  Volumes  have  been  written  about  this  engagement. 
This  is  no  place  to  enlarge  upon  the  same  as  a  whole.  A  part, 
a  small  part  it  is  true,  was  set  for  the  regiment  to  perform. 
This  the  men  did  with  infinite  credit  to  themselves  and  the 
Commonwealth.  They  marched,  they  double-quicked,  they 
suffered  for  lack  of  food  and  drink,  they  forded  the  stream, 
they  advanced  into  battle  with  the  steadiness  of  veterans 
between  the  batteries  of  Griffin  and  Rickett,  they  charged 
the  rifle-pits  of  the  enemy,  they  supported  the  batteries, 
exposed  to  the  raking  fire  of  the  foe, —  in  a  word,  they  executed 
every  order  given,  and  at  last,  when  all  hope  of  success  \vas 
gone,  fell  back,  free  from  the  confusion  that  has  been  the 
popular  notion  of  the  closing  moments  everywhere  at  Bull 
Run. 

In  crossing  at  Sudley's  Ford,  the  regiment  must  have 
passed  down  a  part  of  the  territory  covered  by  the  Second 
Bull  Run;  the  men,  either  advancing  or  retreating,  must  have 
passed  near  the  old  stone  house,  so  often  mentioned  in  all 
accounts'of  the  battle,  and  around  the  well  men  on  both  sides 
mingled  in  the  general  mixup  after  the  day  was  done.  It  was 
here  that  a  private  of  Co.  K  insisted  on  filling  his  canteen, 
against  the  advice  of  his  comrades,  and  when  it  was  filled  he 
lost  time  in  holding  it  to  the  lips  of  a  famished  foeman,  weak 


74 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


and  wounded,  unable  to  help  himself.  While  thus  engaged 
a  rebel  appears  on  the  scene  and  with  fierce  oaths  demands  the 
surrender  of  the  Good  Samaritan,  but  the  man  who  has  drank 
of  the  water  given  by  the  Union  soldier  exclaims,  "  No, 
let  him  go,  he  gave  me  drink;"  and  the  Federal  escaped  while 
one,  at  least,  of  his  comrades  who  would  not  pause  passed 


HENRY  HOUSE  IN  BATTLE  DAYS. 


on  to  capture  and  months  of  prison  life.  The  position  of 
Franklin's  brigade  indicates  that  our  Massachusetts  boys 
were  well  up  to  the  plateau  on  which  Jackson  stood.  When 
pointing  to  him,  the  Florida  General,  B.  E.  Bee,  himself 
about  to  die,  gave  to  the  Virginian  his  immortal  prenomen, 
"  Stonewall,"  and  they  could  not  have  been  very  far  away 
when  the  same  "  Stonewall  "  was  wrounded.  They  must  have 
seen  the  Henry  House,  and  if  they  did  not  see  the  aged  Judith 
Henry  shot  to  her  death,  they  were  where  the  death  shots 
were  falling  thick  and  fast,  and  they  must  have  shared  in  the 
mid-day  thought  that  the  battle  was  won  and  then,  when  the 


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BULL  RUN. 


75 


mists  had  cleared  away,  they  too,  realized  that  the  clay   was 
lost  and  retreat  the  only  recourse  left. 

There  was  direful  confusion  on  both  sides;  a  Grant  or  a 
Jackson,  with  the  experience  of  a  twelvemonth  later,  would 
have  pressed  home  the  advantages  of  noon  and  eve  to  the 
complete  undoing  of  the  vanquished  side.  Fortunately  for 
the  Union  cause,  the  inexperience  of  the  Northern  army  was 
matched  in  full  by  that  of  the  South.  Non-combatants  on 


CUB  RUX  BRIDGE,   1910. 

both  sides  did  much  to  add  to  the  distress  of  those  who  were 
carrying  arms.  A  single  brigade  like  that  of  the  Yermonters 
in  '64  would  have  swept  the  field  clear  of  every  obstruction, 
but  Federal  and  rebel,  whether  volunteer  or  regular,  knew 
nothing  of  actual  war;  at  Bull  Run  they  were  learning  their 
alphabet  of  battle.  On  some  parts  of  the  field,  the  situation 
was  indiscribable;  what  else  could  be  expected?  Says  John 
G.  Nicolay  in  his  "Outbreak  of  the  Rebellion  ": 

It  must  be  remembered  that  these  were  only  three  months' 
volunteers,  and  besides,  as  such,  the  most  impulsive  and 
independent  men  in  their  several  communities,  whose  innate 
promptness  of  thought  and  action  had  brought  them  to  the 


76  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

forefront  of  the  civil  war.  Lacking  long  drill  and  discipline, 
they  acted  upon  individual  judgment  and  impulse  rather 
than  as  organized  bodies  merely  executing  the  orders  of  their 
officers.  This  explains  the  remarkable  statement  of  Captain 
Woodbury  that  at  4  o'clock  on  the  21st  there  were  12,000 
volunteers  on  the  battle-field  of  Bull  Run  who  had  entirely 
lost  their  regimental  organization.  They  could  no  longer  be 
handled  as  troops,  for  the  officers  and  men  were  not  together, 
and  it  is  worthy  of  remark  that  this  disorganization  did  not 
arise  from  defeat  or  fear. 

Not  all,  however,  of  the  Fifth  fell  back  to  Centreville. 
There  were  dead  and  wounded  on  the  fatal  field  among  them 
soldiers  who,  with  loyal  hearts  and  ambitious  zeal,  had  rallied 
to  Faneuil  Hall  and  had  done  all  they  could  for  the  cause  they 
loved  and  now  had  sealed  their  devotion  with  their  blood. 
As  of  Ellsworth  who  had  fallen  yet  earlier,  so  of  them  it  might 
be  written,  "  Dead,  at  the  dawning  of  the  Strife,  and  late,  so 
loyal,  true  and  brave!"  When  all  the  companies  had  been 
canvassed  and  results  compared,  it  was  found  that  nine  men 
had  been  killed,  a  much  larger  number  were  wounded  and 
twenty-three  had  been  taken  prisoners.  The  record  is  as 
follows : 

Colonel  Samuel  C.  Lawrence,  wounded. 

Company  A. 

Wounded,  D.  P.  Moore,  J.  W.  Patten;  prisoners,  H.  T. 
Briggs,  S.  A.  Gate. 

Company  B. 

Prisoners,  Sergt.  G.  W.  Aborn,  Private  F.  L.  Tibbitts; 
wounded  and  prisoner,  J.  H.  Griggs;  wounded,  Joe  Eustis. 

Company  C. 

Wounded,  S.  M.  Clark,  G.  W.  Hobart,  F.  L.  Lane,  W.  S. 
Oakman,  F.  W.  Pfaff,  J.  M.  Pratt,  Lewis  Smith,  Bernard 
Wotton;  wounded  and  prisoner,  Edward  Foster. 


JULY  21,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  77 

Company  D. 

Killed,  Hiram  S.  Collins;  wounded  and  prisoner,  J.  A. 
Shaw;  wounded,  Corporal  G.  W.  Wallace. 

Company  E. 

Killed,  Sergt.  Wm.  H.  Lawrence;  wounded,  Privates  Wm. 
H.  Dane,  A.  F.  Dow,  G.  E.  Peak,  E.  N.  Peirce,  E.  W.  Rams- 
dell,  M.  F.  Richards,  S.  H.  Turner;  prisoner,  J.  H.  Hoyt, 

Company  F. 

Killed,  Sergt.  C.  W.  Cassebourne,  Privates  Thos.  Hettler, 
I.  M.  Low;  prisoners,  Bernard  McSweeney,  Stephen  O'Hara, 
C.  F.  Wardwell,  E.  J.  Williams.  (The  Hon.  Alfred  Ely  in 
his  prison  record  gives  one  Isaac  Lowe,  Co.  I,  Fifth  Mass.) 

Company  G. 

Wounded,  Rob't  Pemberton;  prisoners,  Sergts.  Cyrus  Hos- 
mer  and  Wm.  S.  Rice,  Privates  Wm.  C.  Bates,  E.  S.  Wheeler, 
H.  L.  Wheeler. 

Company  H. 

Killed,  G.  A.  Thompson;  wounded,  Wm.  Farrell,  Chas. 
McFarland;  prisoners,  G.  W.  Dow,  Win.  Shanley. 

Company  I. 

Killed,  E.  F.  Hannaford;  wounded,  John  Adams,  G.  W. 
Nason. 

Company  K. 

Killed,  Sumner  Fish,  never  seen  after  the  battle;  wounded 
and  prisoners,  H.  A.  Angier,  C.  A.  Babcock,  S.  E.  Chandler; 
prisoner,  Geo.  T.  Childs. 

The  aggregate  losses  at  Bull  Run  seem  small  when  compared 
with  those  at  Antietam,  Gettysburg  and  other  battles  of  later 


78 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


dates,  yet  they  carried  consternation  and  grief  into  thousands 
of  Northern  homes.  Though  "  The  Vacant  Chair  "  had  not 
been  written  then,  the  vacant  places  awaited  the  song  when 
October  21st,  a  few  months  later,  had  sealed  the  fate  of 


JULY  16,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  79 

Lieut.  J.  Willie  Grout  (Fifteenth  Mass.).  The  summaries  tell 
us  that  481  Union  soldiers  were  killed,  1,011  wounded  and 
1,460  were  taken  prisoners,  many  of  whom  were  wounded. 
The  Confederates  lost  387  killed,  1,582  wounded  and  a  few 
prisoners.  The  result  was  not  what  the  shriekers  of  "  On  to 
Richmond"  had  expected,  and  thereafter  a  distinct  lessening, 
among  these  gentry,  of  their  warlike  advice  was  noticeable. 
Their  lesson  had  been  learned,  and  apparently  they  had  con 
cluded  that  men  trained  to  the  art  of  war  had  better  make 
ready  for  it,  hence  the  entry  of  McClellan  and  the  months  of 
subsequent  organization,  drill  and  preparation. 

A  Summary  of  the  Bull  Run  Campaign  as  Seen 

and  Described  by  Edwin  F.  Wyer,  Co.  I, 

Later  Adjutant  of  the  Regiment. 

We  left  Camp  Massachusetts  about  9  a.m.,  July  16th, 
bound  for  Manassas.  Proceeded  slowly  and  cautiously,  reach 
ing  the  vicinity  of  Pohick  Church  about  sunset  and  bivouacked 
for  the  night.  A  picket-guard  under  Capt.  Hutchins,  Co.  E, 
was  sent  out  and  they  had  been  gone  but  a  few  minutes  when 
we  heard  sharp  firing  and  the  Captain's  voice  giving  orders 
excitedly;  we  fell  in  hurriedly  and  sent  out  support  as  we 
heard  the  drums  beating  the  long-roll  in  the  Confederate 
outpost  near  by,  while  the  regiment  stood  in  the  chill  night 
air  nervously  waiting  for  orders  to  move  fonvard.  The 
innocent  cause  of  the  alarm  was  soon  found,  when  a  detail 
from  the  picket  brought  in  a  badly  scared  native,  who  had 
been  wending  his  way  homeward,  all  unconscious  of  the  pres- 
sence  of  Federal  troops  in  that  vicinity,  until  fired  upon  and 
his  horse  was  killed.  He  was  kept  till  morning,  when  he  was 
allowed  to  go  home  on  foot.  On  our  advancing  the  next 
morning,  we  came  upon  the  Confederate  outpost  which  had 
been  so  hurriedly  abandoned  that  the  men  had  left  their 
breakfasts  cooking  on  the  fires.  The  second  day's  march  was 
carefully  made,  beating  the  bush  on  both  sides  of  the  way, 
searching  for  masked  batteries  and  concealed  rebels,  having 
been  told  that  the  woods  were  full  of  them,  but  none  appeared 
before  us.  We  camped  at  night  at  Sangster's  Station,  near 
a  county  house  on  the  Orange  &  Alexandria  R.R.  The 


80  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

next  morning  (18th),  we  captured  our  first  prisoners,  the 
boys  bringing  in  fourteen  large  moccasin  snakes.  At  this 
stage  of  the  game,  foraging  was  strictly  prohibited,  officers 
and  men  being  enjoined  to  respect  the  person  and  property 
of  the  inhabitants.  Capt.  Brastow  (Co.  I)  had  been  told 
that  one  of  the  natives,  who  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  a 
Union  man,  living  about  a  mile  away,  had  some  fine  lambs 
which  he  would  sell  dressed  for  three  dollars  each.  The 
Captain  proposed  to  me  that  I  go  and  buy  one  of  the  animals 
and  thus  give  the  boys  a  lamb  stew  for  dinner,  it  being  under 
stood  that  we  would  remain  in  camp  until  afternoon,  and 
Old  Jack,  the  relic  from  Price  and  Birch's  Slave-pen,  would 
cook  the  same  to  the  queen's  taste.  We  started,  but  had 
proceeded  only  a  little  way  from  camp  when  we  saw  a  squad 
of  cavalry  approaching  in  the  distance  which  we  suspected 
might  be  rebels,  so  we  took  to  the  woods  and  remained  hidden 
until  the  horsemen  had  passed,  when  we  came  back  to  the  road, 
meeting  there  some  of  the  Fifth  Regiment,  who  had  been  to 
the  very  house  we  were  in  search  of  and  who  told  us  that 
General  McDowell  and  staff  had  just  gone  in  the  direction 
of  the  camp,  these  proving  to  be  our  supposed  Confederates. 
On  reaching  the  house,  the  yard  was  full  of  stragglers  from 
different  regiments  getting  breakfast,  and  we  found  that  we 
would  have  to  negotiate  our  purchase  with  the  women-folks, 
as  there  were  no  men  in  sight.  They  had  not  heard  the  latest 
quotations  on  spring  lamb,  so  we  insisted  on  seeing  Mr. — 
himself;  after  much  persuasion,  one  of  the  women  confided 
to  me  that  the  absent  party  was  a  Union  man  and  when  he 
saw  the  cavalry,  the  same  that  had  encountered  us,  he  had 
departed  in  a  hurry  and  was  hidden  somewhere  in  a  large 
field  of  tall  corn  quite  a  distance  from  the  house.  He  was 
found  and,  being  assured  that  we  would  pay  the  price  agreed 
upon,  he  promised  to  bring  the  lamb  to  camp.  Though  we 
hurried  back,  it  was  to  find  that  all  had  packed  up  and  de 
parted.  Doing  likewise  was  the  next  move  for  us,  but  we 
felt  that  lamb  stew  for  dinner  had  disappeared  also.  Happily 
the  next  morning  brought  about  the  sheep  episode,  already 
narrated,  at  Centreville,  where  Old  Jack  proved  himself  the 
man  for  the  hour  and  lamb  stew  with  mutton  broth  were 
surely  had. 

July  20  was  devoted  to  making  brush  shelters  to  protect 
us  from  the  scorching  July  sun  and  speculating  on  the  prob 
able  outcome  of  the  morrow,  for  we  knew  that  our  baptism 


JULY  21    '61.  BULL  RUN.  81 

of  fire  was  impending,  and  that  for  the  first  time  we  were  to 
be  pitted  against  the  boasted  chivalry  of  the  South.  Would 
we  stand  the  test?  Of  course  we  would!  Could  we  fail? 
Perish  the  thought!  Hadn't  we  been  given  the  job  of  putting- 
down  the  Rebellion?  Didn't  Secretanr  Seward  assure  us 
that  the  insurrection  would  be  quelled  in  60  days?  With 
an  optimism  born  of  youth  and  inexperience  we  started  for 
the  fight  at  Bull  Run.  The  early  grey  of  the  morning  of 
the  21st  of  July  found  us  toiling  our  weary  way  towards  the 
field  of  glor}r  as  we  believed.  We  soon  heard  the  booming 
of  cannon  that  told  us  that  the  fight  was  on.  As  our  division 
had  to  make  a  wide  detour  to  get  into  the  rear  of  the  Con 
federates,  there  was  for  us  a  long,  hard  march  under  the  broil 
ing  sun. 

As  we  advanced,  the  rattle  of  musketry  and  the  roar  of 
artillery  grew  nearer  and  still  nearer,  until  we  reached  the 
field  of  the  first  general  engagement  of  the  war;  we  went  onto 
the  field  in  column  by  companies,  were  halted  and  ordered 
to  lay  off  our  blankets,  haversacks  and  all  useless  impedi 
ments.  Presumably,  after  we  had  beaten  the  enemy,  we 
were  to  return  and  resume  our  laid  off  habiliments,  but  to 
many  of  us  the  opportunity  never  offered.  While  lying  on 
the  ground,  hugging  Mother  Earth,  General  Franklin,  com 
manding  our  brigade,  seeing  the  Fire  (Ellsworth's)  Zouaves, 
the  llth  N.Y.,  advancing  across  the  field  in  the  distance, 
said,  "  There  goes  a  gallant  regiment,  but  it  ought  to  be  sup 
ported."  Whereupon  our  Colonel  Lawrence  spoke  up,  say 
ing,  "  It  can  have  support,  General;  the  Fifth  Massachusetts 
will  go  anywhere  you  order  it."  "  Move  your  regiment  by 
the  right  to  their  support,"  said  Franklin;  but  before  we 
could  connect  with  the  left  of  the  llth,  it  was  subjected  to 
a  withering  fire  from  the  enemy,  massed  around  the  Henry 
house,  thus  throwing  the  regiment  into  disorder;  the  sunken 
road  over  which  we  moved  to  their  support  proving  a  great 
protection  to  us.  It  was  while  going  to  the  support  of  the 
Fire  Zouaves  that  the  most  of  the  casualties  in  our  regiment 
occurred. 

The  first  intimation  that  all  was  not  going  well  with  our 
side,  came  when  the  two  companies  of  regular  cavalry  (all 
the  cavalry  on  the  field)  came  tearing  down  the  road  where 
we  lay,  shouting,  "  Get  out  of  here  or  the  Black  Horse  Cavalry 
will  get  you  all."  We  had  been  detached  from  our  brigade, 
and  not  an  order  from  General  Franklin  had  reached  us  since 


82  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

we  left  the  brigade  to  support  the  Zouavee.  At  this  juncture. 
Captain  Brastow  asked  General  Burnside,  who  was  on  our 
left  with  his  Rhode  Island  Brigade,  if  we  might  form  on  his 
column  and  march  under  his  orders,  a  request  that  was 
speedily  granted,  and  in  that  order  we  came  off  the  field. 
Crossing  Sudley's  Ford,  we  retreated  by  the  same  road  we 
had  taken  in  the  morning  until  we  reached  Cub  Run;  there 
at  the  bridge  we  discovered  that  the  Confederates  had  posted 
a  battery  and  were  working  it  with  an  energy  worthy  of  a 
better  cause. 

As  the  water  in  Cub  Run  was  only  about  waist  deep  we 
forded  it,  and  found  on  the  f  other  side  16,000  troops, 
McDowell's  reserves,  that  had  not  fired  a  shot  nor  moved  an 
inch,  although  within  easy  reach  of  their  hard-pressed  com 
rades.  Had  McDowell  thrown  in  his  reserves  at  the  critical 
moment,  the  first  Bull  Run  fight  had  been  a  victory  instead 
of  a  disaster.  Reaching  our  camp,  which  we  had  left  in  the 
morning  so  full  of  hope  and  glorious  expectation,  the  men 
threw  themselves  upon  the  ground,  a  tired,  footsore  array, 
confident  that  they  deserved  a  better  fate,  after  marching 
and  fighting  continuously  twenty  hours,  and  there  was  bit 
terness  in  their  hearts  against  the  general  officers  who  h,ad  so 
ingloriously  led  them. 

Data  and  Comments  from  the  Commanding  Officers 
as  Recorded  in  the  Official  Records  of  the  Re 
bellion,  Vol.  II,  First  Series,  pp.  384,  385. 

From  the  report  of  Colonel  Andrew  Porter,  commanding 
First  Brigade,  Second  Division,  and  the  division  after  the 
wounding  of  Colonel  David  Hunter,  describing  the  attack  of 
Burnside's  Brigade  upon  the  enemy's  right: — 

The  head  of  Heintzelman's  column  at  this  moment  appeared 
upon  the  field,  and  the  llth  and  5th  Massachusetts  regiments 
moved  forward  to  the  support  of  our  center,  while  staff  officers 
could  be  seen  galloping  rapidly  in  every  direction,  endeavoring 
to  rally  the  broken  8th  (N.Y.);  but  this  laudable  purpose  was 
only  partially  attained,  owing  to  the  inefficiency  of  some  of  its 
field  officers.  General  Tyler's  Division  (1st)  was  engaged  with 
the  enemy's  right.  The  27th  (N.Y.)  in  the  edge  of  the  woods, 
in  the  center,  covered  by  a  hill,  upon  which  lay  the  llth  and 
5th  Massachusetts,  occasionally  delivering  a  scattering  fire. 
The  14th  (N.Y.)  was  moving  by  the  right  flank.  The  pres- 


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BULL  RUN. 


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tige  of  success  had  thus  far  attended  the  efforts  of  our  inex 
perienced  but  gallant  troops.  The  lines  of  the  enemy  had 
been  shifted  forcibly  nearly  a  mile  to  their  left  and  rear. 
The  flags  of  eight  regiments,  though  borne  somewhat  wearily, 
now  pointed  towards  the  hill  from  which  disordered  masses 


REBEL 
HEADQUARTERS 


BULL  RUN  BATTLEFIELD. 


of  rebels  had  been  seen  hastily  retiring.  Griffin's  and  Ricketts' 
batteries  were  ordered  by  the  commanding  general  to  the  top 
of  the  hill  on  our  right,  supporting  them  with  the  Fire  Zouaves 
and  marines,  while  the  14th  (N.Y.)  entered  the  skirt  of  woods 
on  their  right  to  protect  the  flank,  and  a  column  composed  of 
the  27th  N.Y.,  llth  and  5th  Mass.,  1st  Minn,  and  69th  N.Y., 
moved  up  towards  the  left  flank  of  the  batteries;  but  as  soon 
as  they  were  in  position,  and  before  the  flanking  support  had 
reached  theirs,  a  murderous  fire  of  musketry  and  rifles, 
opened  at  pistol  range,  cut  down  every  cannoneer  and  a  large 
number  of  the  horses.  The  fire  came  from  some  infantry 


84 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


of  the  enemy,  which  had  been  mistaken  for  our  own  forces, 
an  officer  on  the  field  having  stated  that  it  was  a  regiment 
sent  by  General  Heintzelman  to  support  the  batteries.  The 
evanescent  courage  of  the  Zouaves  (Fire)  prompted  them  to 
fire  perhaps  a  hundred  shots,  when  they  broke  and  fled, 
leaving  the  batteries  open  to  an  attack  by  the  enemy's  cavalry 
which  took  place  immediately. 

From  the  report  of  Colonel  Win.  B.  Franklin,  commanding 
the  First  Brigade,  Third  Division,  pp.  405,  406: 

The  brigade  left  Centreville  at  2.30  a.m.  in  the  following- 
order:  1st,  Minnesota  regiment;  2d,  Ricketts'  battery;  3d, 
5th  Mass,  regiment;  4th,  llth  Mass,  regiment.  At  Centre 
ville  a  delay  of  more  than  two  hours  took  place  to  enable 
the  columns  of  General  Tyler  and  Colonel  Hunter  to  pass 


BULL  RUN  BRIDGE.    1910. 

Colonel  Heintzelman's.  The  march  then  recommenced  and 
continued  without  interruption  until  the  brigade  reached 
Bull  Run,  about  11  o'clock,  a.m.,  after  a  march  of  about  12 
miles. 

Colonel  Hunter's  column  had,  by  this  time,  become  engaged 
with  the  enemy,  and  Ricketts'  battery  was  immediately 
ordered  to  cross  the  run  and  to  hold  itself  in  readiness  for 
action.  The  Minnesota  regiment  was  ordered  to  cross  to 
support  the  battery,  and  was,  by  a  subsequent  change  in 


JULY  21,  '61.  BULL  RUN.  85 

the  order,  placed  in  position  on  the  left  of  the  field.  The 
5th  and  llth  Mass,  were  for  a  very  short  time  held  in  reserve 
on  the  left  hank  of  the  run.  Ricketts'  battery  was  directed 
to  take  position  in  a  field  towards  the  extreme  right  of  our 
line,  and  commenced  firing  at  a  battery  of  the  enemy  placed 
just  beyond  the  crest  of  a  hill  on  our  left.  After  firing  for 
about  twenty  minutes  at  this  point,  the  battery  was  moved 
to  a  point  about  1000  feet  from  the  enemy's  battery,  where 
it  was  immediately  subjected  to  an  incessant  fire  of  musketry, 
at  short  range,  disabling  it  almost  immediately.  Here 
Captain  Ricketts  was  severely  wounded  and  First  Lieut.  D. 
Ramsey  was  killed.  The  battery  also  lost,  in  the  course  of 
a  few  minutes,  eleven  non-commissioned  officers  and  men 
killed,  and  fourteen  wounded.  Many  horses  were  also  killed, 
so  that  the  battery  was  entirely  crippled  and  its  remains 
were  drawn  off  the  field,  all  of  the  guns  being  left  on  the  field. 
While  the  battery  was  in  the  first  position,  the  5th  and 
llth  Mass,  regiments  were  brought  to  the  field  and  took  posi 
tion  just  behind  the  crest  of  a  hill,  about  the  centre  of  the 
position.  Here  they  were  slightly  exposed  to  the  fire  of  the 
enemy's  battery  on  the  left,  and  were  consequently  thrown 
into  some  confusion;  this  was  shown  by  the  difficulty  of  forming 
the  llth  Regiment,  and  by  wild  firing  made  by  both  regi 
ments.  They  fired  without  command,  and  in  one  or  two 
instances,  while  formed  in  column,  closed  in  mass.  From  this 
point  both  regiments  were  ordered  to  proceed  to  the  vicinity 
of  the  point  where  Ricketts'  battery  was  disabled,  to  try  and 
get  back  the  guns.  They  went  there,  and,  with  the  help  of 
some  other  regiments  on  the  right,  the  enemy  was  driven 
from  the  guns  three  times.  It  was  impossible,  however,  to 
get  the  men  to  draw  off  the  guns,  and  when  one  or  two  attempts 
were  made,  we  were  driven  off  by  the  appearance  of  the  enemy 
in  large  force  with  heavy  and  well-aimed  volleys  of  musketry. 
Colonel  Hartranft  of  the  4th  Penn.,  whose  regiment  refused 
to  march  forward  that  morning,  accompanied  me  to  the  field 
as  aide-de-camp.  His  services  were  exceedingly  valuable  to 
me  and  he  distinguished  himself  in  his  attempts  to  rally  the 
regiments  that  had  been  thrown  into  confusion. 

Bull  Run  as  Described  by  Lieutenant  Williams  (F). 

We  left  camp  July  16th,  blankets  rolled  across  the  shoulders 
and  three  days'  rations,  and  took  the  march  to  Centreville.  We 
left  the  main  road  to  Fairfax  and  turned  off  to  the  left  and 


86 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


took  a  more  southern  route,  circular  route,  with  flankers  out 
and  skirmishers  ahead.  The  Rebels  were  seen  at  times  ahead 
and,  surprised,  made  attempts  to  obstruct  the  roads  by  falling 
trees,  etc.,  but  the  Minnesota  boys  with  their  axes  soon  cleared 
the  way,  came  across  some  earthworks,  but  the  enemy  had 
left  in  a  hurry,  leaving  their  dinners.  We  arrived  in  Centre- 
ville  on  the  18th.  On  the  19th  we  made  some  brush  tents, 
the  20th  orders  were  to  prepare  three  days'  rations  and  be 
ready  to  move.  On  the  21st  at  1.15  a.m.  order  to  "  fall  in 
lively,1'  and  at  2.30  a.m.  the  regiment  started  on  the  War- 
renton  Pike  for  Bull  Run.  When  we  got  out  on  the  road  it 
looked  as  if  all  the  Senators  and  Congressmen  had  come  out 
from  Washington  in  carriages  to  see  us  off.  We  crossed  the 
bridge  at  "  Cub  Run  "  and  filed  off  to  the  right  through  the 
woods  to  Sudley's,  10  miles,  where  we  came  out  on  the  ridge. 
We  could  see  and  hear  firing  off  to  the  left  and  soon  the  order 
to  double-quick  came,  and  after  piling  our  blankets  near  the 
church,  started  on  the  double-quick,  forded  the  run  and  went 
into  action  on  the  crest  of  a  hill.  The  enemy's  shot  and  balls 


PRESENT   HENRY  HOUSE  AND  MONUMENT. 

were  flying  pretty  lively,  but  we  formed  close  order  and  by 
division  commenced  firing  at  them  over  the  crest  as  they 
retired  before  us.  Soon  the  order  came  to  file  down  the  New 
market  road  and  support  the  "Fire  Zouaves"  in  their  charge. 
In  this  movement  we  lost  some  men  and  it  was  then  charge 
and  counter-charge,  and  the  Rebels  were  gradually  forced  to 
the  rear  until  about  3  p.m.  it  was  noticed  the  Rebels  were 
being  reinforced  by  a  column  of  the  enemy  coming  down  on 
our  left  rear  which  compelled  us  to  fall  back  to  Sudley's 
Hill,  where  we  formed  line  and  remained  until  dark  and  then 
took  up  the  line  of  march  to  our  camp  at  Centreville. 


JULY  22,  '61.  HOMEWARD  BOUND.  87 

We  found  when  we  got  to  "  Cub  Run  "  bridge  we  could  not 
cross,  as  the  enemy's  guns  controlled  it  and  it  was  filled  with 
broken  wagons,  and  so  we  had  to  ford  the  stream  about  up 
to  our  arm  pits.  Blenker's  Brigade  was  drawn  up  in  line,  had 
not  been  in  the  fight,  and  I  think  the  whole  battle  was  sus 
tained  by  Col.  Heintzelman's  and  Hunter's  Divisions,  con 
sisting  of  Franklin's,  Wilcox's,  French's  and  Burnside's 
Brigades.  When  we  got  back  to  the  old  camp  we  had  coffee 
and  a  cracker  and  lay  down  to  have  a  rest,  but  there  was  no  rest 
for  us,  for  at  12  midnight  we  were  ordered  to  fall  in  and  march 
back  to  camp  at  Alexandria,  a  long  march,  which  we  accom 
plished  about  11  o'clock  a.m.,  had  coffee  and  then  fell  in 
again  to  march  to  Washington  through  the  rain  and  mud. 
Arriving  in  Washington  the  men  were  housed  in  an  old  hotel 
and  the  officers  in  others.  A  friend  took  me  to  a  store  and 
fitted  me  out  with  new  underclothes  and  pants;  my  old  ones 
were  covered  with  mud,  and  had  some  bullet  holes,  and  then 
went  to  the  Willard  Hotel  for  a  fine  dinner  and  a  good  sleep 
in  his  bed,  much  needed  after  24  hours'  constant  move. 


HOMEWARD  BOUND. 

The  stay  at  Centreville  was  short,  since  in  about  an  hour 
came  the  command  to  march  to  Washington.  Beginning  at 
1.30  a.m.  of  this  day,  there  had  been  little  if  any  cessation  of 
activity  among  our  soldiers,  and  if  they  were  weary  it  was 
only  the  natural  result  of  continuous  effort.  The  early  hours 
of  the  22d  found  them  still  en  route  for  the  Potomac,  said  to 
be  twenty-five  miles  away.  To  add  to  their  discomforts, 
the  morning  brought  rain,  the  usual  sequel  to  a  day  of  battle, 
and  through  Virginia  mud  the  defeated  army  plodded  on. 
It  was  10  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  when  the  Fifth  reached  its 
old  Camp  Massachusetts,  but  even  there  the  wait  was  short, 
for  before  noon,  came  orders  to  proceed  to  Washington. 
Gathering  up  all  of  their  effects  that  their  late  experience 
had  left,  the  column,  under  the  command  of  Major  Boyd, 
started  for  the  Capital.  Nine  miles  through  mud  and  rain, 
hungry  and  drenched  to  the  skin,  the  destination  was  reached 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

at  about  4  o'clock  p.m.  Many  of  the  men  had  been  wounded 
the  day  before  and  their  condition,  under  the  circumstances, 
was  specially  distressing,  though  private  houses  were  opened 
for  their  reception  and  care.  The  Government  had  not 
developed  its  vast  system  of  hospitals  as  yet,  and  but  for  the 
sympathetic  care  of  the  patriotic  public,  the  fate  of  the  wound 
ed  would  have  been  serious  indeed.  The  Fifth  Regiment  was 
not  the  only  one  to  reach  Washington  that  afternoon  and  the 
city  was  more  than  full.  While  the  men  of  the  Fifth  were 
quartered  in  a  number  of  buildings,  there  were  soldiers  who 
had  to  bivouac  on  the  sidewalk. 

For  the  following  five  days,  the  soldiers  who  cared  to  do  so 
had  an  opportunity  to  renew  some  of  the  experiences  of  their 
late  month's  stay  in  Washington  and  to  compare  notes  with 
other  participants  in  the  fight  of  the  21st.  It  was  a  time  of 
getting  ready  to  go  home  on  the  part  of  thousands  of  three- 
months'  men  like  themselves,  whose  departure  was  so  seriously 
modifying  the  plans  of  those  at  the  head  of  the  armies  and  the 
Government.  On  Sunday,  the  28th,  the  first  Lord's  day 
since  the  battle,  began  that  most  welcome  of  all  events  in  a 
soldier's  life,  his  going  home.  At  9  a.m.,  for  the  last  time  in 
Washington,  the  regiment  paraded  on  Pennsylvania  Avenue, 
near  Willard's  Hotel,  Lieut. -colonel  Peirson  in  command,  and 
was  briefly  addressed  by  Colonel  Lawrence,  who,  though 
suffering  from  his  wound,  was  determined  to  see  his  men 
safely  home  again.  At  10  o'clock  the  train  was  boarded  at 
the  old  Baltimore  &  Ohio  station,  and  Washington  was 
left  more  directly  and  more  happily  than  it  was  approached 
three  months  earlier.  In  Baltimore  there  was  a  delay  until 
6.30  p.m.  before  leaving  for  Philadelphia,  where  the  Fifth 
arrived  at  5.30  in  the  morning  of  the  29th. 

Still  moving  northward,  after  enjoying  a  substantial  break 
fast  in  the  City  of  Brotherly  Love,  New  York  was  reached  at 
4.30  in  the  afternoon,  where  the  men  had  a  bountiful  supply  of 
provisions  at  the  Park  Barracks,  a  development  since  the  April 
visit,  while  the  officers  were  entertained  at  the  Astor  House. 


JULY  30,  '61.  HOMEWARD  BOUND.  89 

Three  hours  later,  or  at  7.30  p.m.,  by  way  of  the  Sound,  a 
start  was  made  for  New  England,  reaching  Groton,  Connect 
icut,  at  6.30,  the  morning  of  the  30th.  Thence  an  hour  after 
wards,  a  train  of  cars  was  bearing  the  regiment  towards  Boston, 
which  was  entered,  Providence  station,  at  1.15  p.m.,  just  the 
hour  for  a  public  reception,  and  the  "Hub  of  the  Universe  " 
was  ready  and  equal  to  the  occasion.  Though  the  Third  and 
Fourth  regiments  had  already  been  received  with  enthusiasm, 
they  were  not  men  tried  as  by  fire,  not  yet  a  fortnight  away. 
It  might  be  said  of  Boston  at  that  time  that  her  people  were 
Bull  Run  mad,  and  here  were  the  very  men  who  had  marched 
more  than  twenty  miles  beneath  a  blistering  sun,  had  fought 
a  gallant  foe,  leaving  some  of  their  numbers  dead  upon  the 
field  and  many  more  wounded  or  prisoners  in  the  hands  of 
the  enemy,  —  why  should  not  the  populace  gather  for  a  sight 
of  the  heroes  who  had  come  back  to  them?  Not  only  was  the 
Second  Battalion  at  the  station  to  meet  the  Fifth — every 
citizen  who  could  by  any  possible  means  gain  a  foothold  was 
there  also.  Debarking  with  difficulty  on  account  of  the  throng, 
line  was  formed  and,  escorted  by  the  Second  Battalion,  with 
music  by  Gilmore's  matchless  band,  the  march  through  home 
streets  began.  At  the  head  of  the  procession  in  a  carriage 
rode  Mayor  Wightman  and  several  members  of  the  Governor's 
staff,  the  route  being  through  Tremont,  Court  and  State 
streets  and,  returning,  through  Washington,  School  and 
Beacon  to  the  Common.  No  available  foot  of  space  lacked 
an  occupant,  and  every  beholder  had  a  voice,  which  he  used 
to  its  limit.  Let  the  reporter  for  the  Boston  Journal  tell  the 
story  of  what  he  saw  at  the  time  and  on  the  spot: 

People  began  to  flock  to  the  Common  at  an  early  hour,  and 
on  the  arrival  of  the  escort,  an  hour  previous  to  the  arrival 
of  the  regiment,  the  crowd  had  become  very  large.  After 
several  hours  of  patient  waiting,  the  commotion  in  the  neigh 
borhood  of  the  Providence  depot  plainly  indicated  the  arrival 
of  the  train,  and  hundreds  bent  their  steps  in  that  direction. 
Most,  however,  remained  on  the  Common,  supposing,  of 
course,  that  the  troops,  who  had  had  nothing  to  eat  since 


90  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

their  departure  from  New  York,  Monday  evening,  would 
first  partake  of  the  collation  which  had  been  spread  for  some 
hours  on  the  Beacon  Street  mall.  The  regiment,  however, 
proceeded  through  the  streets  of  the  city  before  arriving  on 
the  Common.  Their  approach  was  a  signal  for  a  grand 
rush.  Fathers,  mothers,  brothers,  sisters  and  friends  seized 
the  hands  or  clung  round  the  necks  of  soldiers  as  they  came 
upon  the  parade  ground.  The  strict  order  "  not  to  meddle 
with  the  boys  on  the  march  "  was  only  partially  heeded,  and 
the  detour  of  the  parade  ground  was  accomplished 
by  the  troops  to  the  sound  of  familiar  music,  with  their 
glorious  colors  still  flying,  and  with  numerous  accessions  to 
their  ranks.  No  sooner  had  the  regiment  been  formed  in 
line  with  the  Charles  Street  mall,  than  from  all  quarters  of 
the  parade  ground  rushed  throngs  of  people  to  greet  them. 
The  orders  to  stack  arms,  etc.,  were  obeyed  under  great  dis 
advantage,  as  at  this  time  the  ranks  were  much  brokt-n  by  the 
influx  of  innumerable  friends.  Then  followed  the  greetings. 
Colonel  Lawrence  rode  down  the  parade  ground  on  his  splen 
did  horse,  receiving  the  hearty  congratulations  of  his  friends 
on  all  sides.  The  civic  and  military  authorities  present, 
including  several  United  States  officers,  repaired  to  the  marquee 
at  the  north  end  of  the  ground,  where  a  repast  was  laid,  and 
where  many  friends  had  been  gathered.  In  the  scenes  of 
welcome  and  heartfelt  congratulations  the  repast  was  well- 
nigh  neglected. 

Many  an  affecting  incident  occurred,  and  many  tears  of 
welcome  were  shed  within  the  tent  and  all  along  the  ranks. 
The  troops  were  conducted  to  their  collation  and  for  a  couple 
of  hours  were  allowed  the  full  enjoyment  of  the  meeting.  One 
never  failed  of  interest  in  walking  among  them.  Here  a 
hardy  young  soldier  was  exhibiting  a  shattered  musket,  or  a 
few  clean  bullet-holes  in  his  garments,  another  was  the  center 
of  an  eager  crowd  which  was  listening  intently  to  the  latest 
authentic  account  of  the  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  from  an  "  eye 
witness."  Outside  the  lines,  little  knots  of  people  listened 
to  new  incidents  of  the  fight,  and  none  enjoyed  the  scene 
better  than  the  returned  volunteers. 

To  drink  from  a  returned  soldier's  canteen  that  had  been 
filled  often  from  the  puddles  of  Fairfax  and  Centreville,  was 
the  especial  delight  of  many,  while  trophies  of  the  field  were 
liberally  dispersed  on  all  sides.  In  scenes  like  these,  two  happy 
hours  of  the  afternoon  passed  away,  and  we  heard  it  from 


JULY  30.  '61.  HOMEWARD  BOUND.  91 

the  lips  of  many  of  the  regiment  that  it  was  a  source  of  special 
delight  that  their  first  reception  was  beneath  the  green  trees 
of  Boston  Common. 

A  special  order,  issued  July  30th,  from  the  headquarters 
of  the  State  Militia,  substantially  stated  what  the  regiment, 
under  the  efficient  command  of  Colonel  Lawrence,  had  accom 
plished,  that  it  had  upheld  the  good  name  of  the  Common 
wealth  and  that  it  had  now  returned  to  receive  the  welcome 
and  gratitude  of  the  public  for  its  patriotic  services.  "  The 
memories  of  the  men  of  the  Fifth  who  have  fallen  in  the  great 
cause,  and  whose  bodies  lie  moldering  in  the  soil  of  Virginia, 
Massachusetts  will  ever  hold  in  grateful  remembrance." 

Once  more  the  line  was  formed,  this  time  at  ten  minutes 
past  four,  when  Capt.  T.  J.  C.  Amory  of  the  regulars  proceeded 
to  muster  out  the  regiment  from  the  service  of  the  United 
States.  This  ceremon}'  took  an  hour  and  a  half  more  of  the 
afternoon  and  then  the  several  captains,  taking  command  of 
their  respective  companies,  marched  away  with  them  home 
ward.  Before  the  final  dismissal,  Colonel  Lawrence  briefly 
addressed  the  regiment  that  had  followed  him  so  faithfully, 
thanking  both  officers  and  men  for  their  noble  efforts  and 
hearty  support.  He  wished  them  much  happiness  in  their 
homes,  and  remarked  that  he  had  never  issued  an  order  that 
was  not  cheerfully  obeyed.  There  was  something  akin  to 
sadness  in  many  hearts  when  the  Colonel  bade  them  fare 
well  until  they  should  meet  again,  for  though  they  were  look 
ing  towards  their  homes,  they  could  not  forget  the  common 
dangers  through  which  they  had  passed  and  which  had  united 
them  closer,  in  some  cases,  than  ties  of  blood. 

All  of  the  foregoing  was  011  Boston  Common;  to  follow 
were  the  receptions  in  the  respective  cities  and  towns  whence 
had  marched  the  companies.  Men  of  mark  from  all  of  these 
municipalities  were  present  to  accompany  the  "  boys  "  home 
to  Charlestown,  Salem,  Medford,  and  all  of  the  places  that  had 
sent  organizations  into  the  fray.  There  were  more  eating, 
drinking  and  hand-shaking  in  the  town  halls  as  fellow  citizens 


92 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


crowded  up  to  greet  the  returning  brave  and  then,  last  of  all, 
came  the  meeting  of  nearest  and  dearest  friends  around  the 
hearthstone  and  altar  of  home,  closed  to  the  eyes  of  the  world, 
sacred  to  those  most  interested. 

Massachusetts  was  receiving  back   again  those  who   sur 
vived  the  enlistment  of  three  months.     The  scenes  of  the 


HOME  AGAIN. 

closing  days  of  July  and  early  August  were  to  be  repeated  on 
many  a  similar  occasion,  through  more  than  four  long  and 
weary  years,  but  very  likely  enthusiasm  never  ran  higher 
than  when  these  apt  pupils  in  the  school  of  war,  the  soldiers 
of  the  Fifth,  came  home  from  their  brief  tour  of  duty.  Had 
they  not  accomplished  every  task  set  for  them,  had  they  not 
overstayed  their  time  that  they  might  add  lustre  to  the  name 
of  the  Commonwealth  and  make  clearer  still  the  significance 
of  "  faithful  unto  death"?  The  aptness  of  these  students, 


JULY  21,  ;61.  BULL  RUN  PRISONERS.  93 

in  their  lessons  of  the  preceding  quarter,  was  subsequently 
proven  on  hundreds  of  battlefields  where,  as  officers  and  en 
listed  men,  they  exhibited  the  efficiency  of  Colonel  Lawrence's 
drill  and  oftentimes,  with  their  life-blood,  sealed  their  devo 
tion  to  the  cause  they  loved.  All  honor  to  the  Fifth  Regiment, 
M.  V.  M.,  in  its  Three-months'  or  Minute-men  Service. 

BULL  RUN  PRISONERS. 

The  inexperience  of  both  North  and  South  wras  in  no  way 
better  illustrated  than  in  the  lack  of  facilities  both  evidenced 
when  the  fate  of  battle  threw  numbers  of  the  enemy  into 
their  respective  hands.  Just  how  to  treat  a  captive  foeman 
seemed  a  problem  to  the  people  of  Richmond,  and  the  journals 
of  that  capital  city  calmly  discussed  whether  the  prisoners 
should  not  be  made  to  earn  their  keeping  by  labor  on  fortifi 
cations,  on  roads  and  streets,  or  by  way  of  punishment  be  sub 
jected  to  the  ceaseless  toil  of  the  treadmill.  Records  of  the 
progress  from  the  battlefield  to  Richmond  are  not  numer 
ous,  yet  we  have  something  of  a  story  from  the  respective 
volumes  of  the  Hon.  Alfred  Ely,  Member  of  Congress  from 
Rochester,  X.  Y.,  who  kept  a  journal  of  his  experience,  and 
the  history  of  the  27th  X.  Y.  Infantry,  Col.  H.  W.  Slocum, 
by  C.  B.  Fairchild.  To  a  certain  extent,  the  experience  of 
the  Congressmen,  the  Xew  York  soldiers  and  those  of  the 
Fifth  was  the  same. 

Says  Mr.  Ely: 

I  was  conducted,  in  company  with  about  600  officers  and 
men,  all  prisoners  of  war,  on  foot,  that  evening  to  Manassas, 
a  distance  of  about  seven  miles  from  where  I  was  arrested, 
over  the  dustiest  road  that  it  was  ever  my  fortune  to  travel. 
The  dust,  so  dense  that  it  might  almost  be  cut  with  a  knife, 
the  weather  dry,  and  no  water  to  be  had,  my  mouth  became 
so  parched  that  it  seemed  impossible  for  me  to  move  my 
tongue.  On  the  march  by  the  side  of  the  road,  a  few  of  the 
soldiers'  canteens  were  filled  from  dirty  pools  of  water,  and 
from  one  I  took  a  draught  which  relieved  me  greatly.  We 
reached  Manassas  about  9  o'clock  in  the  evening. 


94  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

One  of  the  27th  N.  Y.,  taken  at  the  Stone  House,  records: 

We  were  marched  that  night  five  miles  to  Manassas  Junc 
tion,  where  we  remained  till  3  o'clock  the  next  day.  It 
rained  all  night,  and  we  had  no  cover,  and  nothing  of  any 
account  to  eat.  We  were  kept  standing  in  an  open  space  — 
a  solid  mass  of  men;  and  what  little  food  was  given  us  was 
thrown  into  the  pen,  and  most  of  it  trampled  into  the  mud 
before  we  could  get  it. 

Both  accounts  agree  as  to  the  disagreeable  features  of  the 
night,  the  rain  which  beat  upon  them  and  which,  at  the  same 
time,  was  adding  torture  to  the  retreat  of  their  comrades 
towards  Washington.  Mr.  Ely  was  conducted  to  the  head 
quarters  of  General  Beauregard,  seeing  upon  the  piazzaof  the 
house  Jefferson  Davis,  President  of  the  Confederacy,  who  had 
come  out  to  witness  the  engagement,  fellow  members  of  Con 
gress  as  well  as  Beauregard  himself.  The  quarters  assigned 
to  the  officers  were  a  "  miserable  old  barn,"  already  crowded 
with  officers  stretched  upon  the  floor,  and  so  numerous  that 
there  was  scarcely  room  for  the  new  comer  to  assume  a  like 
position.  All  was  darkness  save  for  a  tin  lantern  in  the 
hands  of  the  guard,  and  one  person  could  not  be  distinguished 
from  another.  There  was  only  the  filthy  floor  to  lie  upon, 
no  blankets  under  or  over,  a  sorry  night  to  men  unused  to 
war;  still  it  was  not  so  bad  as  the  condition  of  the  enlisted 
men  at  that  very  time,  for  though  just  as  gently  reared,  they 
were  obliged  to  spend  the  pelting  storm  entirely  in  the  open, 
with  mud  rather  than  a  floor  in  or  on  which  to  rest.  Personal 
incidents  of  men  of  the  Fifth  captured  are  few,  but  one  sur 
vivor  narrates  that,  on  himself  and  comrade  finding  them 
selves  in  the  hands  of  the  foe,  the  comrade  proffered  his  gold 
watch  to  the  captors  if  they  might  be  allowed  to  go  free,  and 
was  indignantly  turned  down.  To  the  men  taken  in  later 
days  this  appears  strange  indeed,  since  then  there  was  a  gen 
eral  search  of  every  prisoner,  and  whatever  he  carried  was 
considered  spoils  of  war.  The  prisoner  went  to  prison  and 
his  valuable  into  the  pockets  of  the  victor. 


JULY  23,  '61.  BULL  RUN  PRISONERS.  95 

The  men  soon  understood  that  Richmond,  130  miles  away, 
was  their  ultimate  destination,  and  through  the  driving  rain 
they  were  escorted  during  the  day  to  a  train  of  cars  on  the 
Virginia  Central  R.  R.  The  departure,  however,  was  slow, 
since  the  loading  on  of  many  wounded  men  took  a  deal  of 
time,  and  it  was  not  till  after  4  p.m.  that  the  train  was  started 
for  the  rebel  capital.  An  all  night's  ride  brought  the  slowly 
moving  train  to  Gordonsville,  sometime  in  the  forenoon  of  the 
22d.  The  delay  here  was  a  lengthy  one,  in  which  food  was 
given  out,  such  as  it  was,  to  the  hungry  occupants  of  the  cars, 
and  the  people  had  their  fill  of  seeing  the  terrible  "  Yankees." 
They  assembled  from  all  the  country-side  to  satisfy  their  curi 
osity;  the  prisoners  were  not  allowed  out  of  the  cars,  though 
juvenile  peddlers  were  not  averse  to  entering  and  proffering 
their  "  handouts  "  for  pay  in  the  shape  of  the  hated  Union 
currency.  The  progress  southward  must  have  been  exceed 
ingly  slow,  since  Mr.  Ely's  journal  indicates  and  the  scribe 
of  the  27th  plainly  states  that  they  did  not  reach  Richmond 
until  8  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  the  23d  of  July. 

There  had  been  intimations  that  the  reception  of  the  pris 
oners  in  the  capital  would  be  a  warm  one,  though  Major 
Prados,  the  officer  in  charge  of  the  detail,  assured  his  hapless 
charge  that  his  150  men  would  be  sufficient  to  prevent  any 
harm  befalling  the  captives.  The  reception  was  all  that  had 
been  promised;  judging  from  the  behavior  of  the  chivalry, 
the  Union  prisoners  had  arrived  at  the  head  village  of  a  tribe 
of  Indians  and  that  the  latter  were  about  to  compel  the  Yan 
kees  to  run  the  gauntlet.  The  mob  was  armed  with  clubs, 
bricks  and  stones,  besides  being  filled  with  scoffs  and  curses, 
which  they  used  freely  in  their  accompanying  the  prisoners 
to  the  quarters  assigned.  The  building  into  which  the  men 
from  Bull  Run  were  conducted,  the  first  prison-house  of  the 
Confederacy,  was  Harwood's  tobacco-factory,  situated  on 
Main  Street,  near  Twenty-fifth,  not  so  famous  as  the  subse 
quently  notorious  "  Libby,"  but  certainly  conspicuous  as  the 
first  structure  devoted  to  the  unhappy  office  of  covering 


96  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Union  prisoners  of  war.  Both  Ely  and  the  diarist  of  the  N.  Y. 
regiment  give  daily  resumes  for  the  summer  and  the  begin 
ning  of  autumn,  when,  Sept.  21st,  a  detachment  including 
the  most  of  our  men  of  the  Fifth  was  sent  to  the  extreme 
south.  In  their  stay  in  the  Confederate  capital,  they  were 
introduced  to  Wirz,  later  to  be  the  best  hated  man  in  the 


HARWOOD  TOBACCO-FACTORY. 

entire  rebellious  territory,  and  eventually  to  be  hanged  for  his 
misdeeds,  and  Lieut.  Todd,  a  brother  of  President  Lincoln's 
wife,  both  Wirz  and  Todd  being  in  immediate  charge  of  the 
prisoners,  under  the  direction  of  John  H.  Winder,  who  here 
began  the  career  which  made  his  name  synonymous  with 
cruelty  and  tyranny  in  the  memories  of  all  the  helpless  men 
in  his  custody.  Mrs.  Lincoln's  brother  was  no  exception  to 
the  cruel  character  of  those  to  whom  was  committed  the  care 
of  Union  prisoners.  Says  one  of  the  annalists: 

He  is  vicious  and  brutal  in  his  treatment  of  his  prisoners, 
and  seldom  enters  the  prison  without  grossly  insulting  some 
of  the  men.  He  always  comes  in  with  a  drawn  sword  in  his 
hand,  and  his  voice  and  manner  indicate  his  desire  to  com 
mit  some  cruel  wrong.  I  have  seen  him  strike  a  wounded 
prisoner  who  was  lying  on  the  floor,  and  cut  a  heavy  gash  across 
his  thigh  with  his  sword. 


SEPT.  28,  '61.  BULL  RUN  PRISONERS.  97 

The  Lieutenant  was  later  killed  in  battle,  as  were  the  other 
two  brothers  of  Mrs  Lincoln.  Some  of  the  characteristics  of 
Lieut.  Todd  were  made  the  theme  of  one  of  the  poetic  effusions 
in  "The  Stars  and  Stripes,"  the  outcome  of  intellectual  effort 
when  the  prisoners  had  got  down  to  their  New  Orleans  prison- 
house. 

Unlike  the  Prisoner  of  Chillon,  these  of  Richmond  left 
their  place  of  incarceration  without  a  sigh,  for  they  argued 
any  change  would  be  an  improvement.  Little  could  they 
foresee  the  horrors  of  Belle  Isle  and  Andersonville.  Once 
more  in  the  street  with  clear  air  and  sunshine,  they  just  had 
to  give  three  cheers  for  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  and  they  were 
not  sorry,  though  it  did  bring  down  upon  them  a  "charge 
bayonet"  of  the  guards.  The  act  was  contagious,  and  men  in 
other  prisons  took  up  the  refrain,  to  the  infinite  chagrin  of  the 
hostile  accompaniment.  The  route  southward  was  through 
Petersburg,  Goldsboro,  N.  C.,  both  names  to  become  famous 
in  later  years;  Sumter,  S.  C.,  Kingsville,  Orangeburg,  and 
Augusta,  Ga.  Everywhere  the  prisoners  are  objects  of 
derision  and  fiercest  scorn,  a  sure  mark  of  the  small  advance 
the  people  had  made  from  barbarism.  Next  came  Atlanta, 
to  be  known  worldwide  in  a  few  brief  years,  thence  to  Mont- 
gomer3T,  Ala.,  the  first  capital  of  the  Confederacy,  where 
the  people  were  more  civil  than  they  had  been  elsewhere. 
Thence  they  ride  down  the  Alabama  River  on  a  steamboat 
and  under  the  rebel  flag  to  Mobile,  reaching  the  city  on  the 
28th  of  September.  Having  ridden  in  box  cars,  on  plank 
seats,  Jackson,  the  capital  of  Mississippi,  is  reached  the  next 
day,  twenty-four  hours  without  food. 

It  was  Sunday,  and  even  the  churches  were  closed,  that  the 
people  might  have  a  chance  to  see  the  hated  Yankees,  the 
latter  looking  more  like  real  folks  than  the  natives  had  sup 
posed.  The  guards  had  a  fine  repast  served  to  them,  and  what 
was  left  they  generously  passed  over  to  their  hungry  charge. 
New  Orleans  was  reached  on  the  last  day  of  the  month.  The 
crowd  being  so  great  that  the  guard  was  afraid  to  face  it,  the 
7 


98  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

train  was  run  back  several  miles  and  did  not  return  until  sev 
eral  hours  later.  By  that  time,  the  populace  was  so  well  in 
hand  that  it  was  thought  proper  to  debark  the  train-load,  and 
to  please  the  vast  crowds,  the  prisoners  were  marched  over 
and  through  a  large  part  of  the  city,  thus  marking  a  day  of 
triumph  in  this  modern  Rome.  The  end  of  the  march  is  at 
the  doors  of  the  parish  prison,  through  whose  portals  the  tired 
travelers  pass,  glad  for  any  place  in  which  to  lay  their  weary 
bodies.  The  authorities  in  Richmond  had  thought  to  divide 
the  responsibilities  and  burden  of  caring  for  so  many  captives 
by  sending  a  part  of  them  to  this  remote  part  of  the  Confed 
eracy. 

As  a  solace  in  their  confinement,  these  men  of  active  minds 
produced,  at  intervals,  a  paper  called  by  them  uThe  Stars  and 
Stripes,"  and  no  doubt  added  to  their  strength  and  endurance 
by  so  doing.  After  his  return  north,  Wm.  C.  Bates,  one  of 
the  prisoners,  supervised  its  publication  in  Boston,  1862. 
Long  out  of  print,  it  is  now  one  of  the  rare  bits  of  Rebellionana. 

PRISONERS   OF  WAR   OF   THE  FIFTH  REGIMENT, 
M.  V.  M.,  IN  1861 

BY  WILLIAM  C.    BATES,*  Co.  G. 

A  score  of  men  who  left  Massachusetts  in  April,  1861,  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Fifth  Regiment  found  themselves  inside 
the  walls  of  a  Richmond  prison  before  the  end  of  July,  1861. 
Here  was  a  part  of  the  large  body  of  Union  soldiers  captured 

*No  person  was  more  prominent  in  furthering  the  project  of  a  history 
of  the  regiment  than  Comrade  Bates.  All  of  the  meetings  of  the  Publication 
Committee,  of  which  he  was  chairman,  were  held  in  his  office,  and  Mon 
day,  Oct.  24,  he  heard  the  reading  of  this,  the  first  part  of  the  story. 
Friday,  the  3d  of  November,  he  was  in  Boston  as  usual,  and  perhaps 
the  last  letter  written  by  him  was  sent  that  day  to  me.  He  went 
home  to  Newton  earlier  than  usual,  not  feeling  well,  and  the  next 
day  died,  thus  realizing  the  force  of  that  passage  in  the  Prayer-book, 
which  he  loved  so  well,  "In  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death."  Always 
the  thorough  gentleman,  it  was  a  decided  pleasure  to  find  in  a  letter  written 
home  by  his  Lieutenant,  Charles  Bowers,  these  words:  "Such  a  charm 
ing  companion  as  Bates  to  join  me  in  pleasant  rambles  whenever  a  leisure 
hour  comes  around." — A.  S.  R. 


JULY  23,  '61.  RICHMOND,  VA.  99 

at  the  first  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  reported  "  missing  "  and 
afterwards  accounted  for  as  "  prisoners/'  upwards  of  a  thou 
sand  men.  Here  men  were  quartered  in  various  military 
prisons  improvised  from  tobacco  warehouses,  cotton  factories 
and  jails  at  Richmond,  later  in  Charleston,  New  Orleans, 
Tuscaloosa,  Salisbury,  N.  C.,  and  Macon,  Ga.  These  men 
were  held  in  confinement  until  the  end  of  May,  1862,  when 
they  were  paroled  at  Salisbury,  N.  C.,  under  the  following 
terms,  and  delivered  to  the  Federal  forces  at  Washington,  N. 
C.,  May  23  and  subsequently. 

The  following  form  of  parole  was  subscribed  to  by  several 
hundred  men  after  ten  months'  imprisonment: 

We,  the  undersigned,  prisoners  of  war  to  the  Confederate 
States,  swear  that,  if  released,  we  will  not  take  up  arms  during 
the  existing  war  against  the  Confederate  States  until  we  are 
regularly  exchanged,  and  that  we  will  not  communicate  in 
any  manner  anything  that  may  injure  the  cause  of  the  Con 
federate  States  which  may  have  come  to  our  knowledge,  or 
which  we  may  have  heard  since  our  capture. 

Signed  at  Salisbury,  N.  C.,  May  22,  1862. 

No  continuous  record  of  the  prison  experience  of  these 
men  has  been  compiled;  glimpses  may  be  had  here  and  there 
in  regimental  histories,  notably  in  the  History  of  the  27th 
Regiment  N.  Y.  Vols.,  and  in  a  little  volume  published  in 
Boston  in  1862,  "  The  Stars  and  Stripes  in  Rebellion,"  a 
series  of  papers  written  by  Federal  prisoners  (privates)  in 
Richmond,  New  Orleans,  and  Salisbury,  N.  C.  While  the 
prisoners  of  the  Fifth  M.  V.  M.,  or  Minute-men,  as  they 
happen  to  be  called,  do  not  desire  to  pose  as  martyrs,  they 
may  be  excused  for  desiring  that  their  unique  and  rather 
unusual  experiences  of  prison  life  in  southern  prisons  may  be 
come  part  of  the  history  of  a  notable  military  organization. 

The  soldier  arriving  in  prison  quarters  quickly  occupies 
himself  in  learning  "  how  to  live."  He  drops  into  squads  of 
apparently  congenial  men  to  receive  and  divide  rations,  an 
swer  roll  call,  and  generally  make  the  best  of  it,  talk  over 


100 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


the  prospect  of  release,  and  act  out  his  nature,  optimistic  or 
melancholy.  The  three  months'  men  of  the  Fifth  Regiment 
probably  had  as  much  cause  for  homesickness  as  often  falls 
to  the  lot  of  men.  Their  companions  were  by  this  time 
(the  last  of  July)  already  near  Massachusetts,  their  enlist 
ment  expired,  and  soon  to  be  safe  inside  the  open  door  of 
home,  while  before  the  prisoners  was  the  prospect  of  weary 


WM.   C.   BATES,   1861 


WM.   C.   BATES,    1910. 


months  of  imprisonment,  with  hunger,  filth  and  degradation 
surrounding  them.  At  such  a  time  individual  character 
asserts  itself;  the  strong  sustain  the  weak,  and  in  a  few  days 
life  becomes  more  endurable.  The  authorities  make  attempts 
at  supplying  rations  and  sanitary  conveniences;  the  standard 
of  population  is  the  number  of  men  that  can  lie  on  the  floor 
of  the  rooms  of  the  tobacco-houses;  the  hours  of  meals  were 


JULY  23,  '61.  RICHMOND,  VA.  101 

fixed  according  to  the  resources  of  the  cuisine.  In  these 
first  days  even  Sergeant  Wirz,  later  so  famous,  was  compara 
tively  amicable  at  times.  Confederate  officers  talked  and 
argued  with  intelligent  prisoners  more  or  less,  but  this  was 
not  conducive  to  amiable  conclusions  and  was  not  long  con 
tinued.  The  Richmond  papers  advocated  putting  the  Yankee 
prisoners  at  work  on  the  fortifications,  or  at  the  coal  mines 
in  Virginia,  and  the  United  States  seemed  to  have  forgotten 
their  flagless  soldiers.  Before  two  months  had  passed  the 
Confederate  Government  found  the  problem  of  feeding  the 
increasing  number  of  prisoners  getting  beyond  its  capacity, 
and  devised  the  plan  of  quartering  them  on  the  larger  cities  of 
the  South,  sending  them  in  five  hundred  lots  to  New  Orleans, 
Charleston,  Tuscaloosa,  Macon,  Montgomery  and  Mobile. 

Members  of  the  Fifth  M.  V.  M.  captured  at  first  Battle  of 
Bull  Run: 

Henry  T.  Briggs  (A)  Danvers,  Mass. 

;Samuel  A.  Gate  (A) 
^George  B.  Aborn  (B) 

Jas.  H.  Griggs  (B)  E.  Somerville. 

*Frank  L.  Tibbetts  (B) 
*Edwarcl  Foster  (C) 
*James  S.  Shaw  (D) 
*J.  H.  Hoyt  (E) 
Isaac  M.  Low  (F) 
^Bernard  McSweeney  (F) 
^Stephen  O'Hara  (F) 

Cyrus  F.  War  dwell  (F)  Oxford,  Me. 

*Edward  F.  Williams  (F) 
*Wm.  S.  Rice  (G) 
*Cyrus  S.  Hosmer  (G) 
*Wm.  C.  Bates    (G) 

Edw,  S.  Wheeler  (G)  Lowell,  Mass. 

*Henry  L.  Wheeler  (G) 
*Geo.  W.  Dow  (H) 
*Wm.  Shanley  (H) 
Henry  A.  Angier  (K)  Somerville,  Mass. 

*Deceased.     Vide  Roster. 


.'- 


102         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

^Converse  A.  Babcock  (K) 

^Samuel  E.  Chandler  (K) 

Geo.  T.  Childs  (K)  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

It  was  a  melancholy  outlook  for  the  young  Massachusetts 
soldiers  when  they  were  dispatched  to  the  other  end  of  the 
Confederacy  almost  at  the  beginning  of  the  war;  the  hope 
of  release  seemed  to  be  indefinitely  postponed;  the  duration 
of  the  resistance  possible  to  the  Confederate  States  was  soon 
to  be  greatly  extended;  from  a  three  months'  campaign  it 
was  recognized  as  a  possibility  of  years,  and  the  spirits  of  the 
men  fell  proportionately.  Rolls  were  made  of  five  hun 
dred  men  and  these  were  sent  off  in  two  detach 
ments  under  Wirz;  the  first,  Sept.  21st,  1861. 
Those  of  us  who  had  received  in  youthful  years  anti- 
slavery  teaching  recalled  the  tales  of  slave  gangs  taken  from 
Virginia  to  the  auction  markets  of  New  Orleans.  Wirz 
seemed  to  guard  the  men  with  an  eye  to  their  market  value, 
so  escape  was  rare,  and  by  October  1st  the  whole  number  was 
safely  delivered  to  the  Provost  Marshal  of  New  Orleans,  Gen. 
Palfrey,  of  a  Massachusetts  family,  and  by  him  domiciled  in 
the  Parish  Prison,  under  contract  for  food  and  lodging  with 
the  sheriff  of  the  city,  or  so  it  seemed  to  us. 

One  wing  of  the  prison  had  been  emptied  of  its  civil  crimi 
nals,  and  the  three  corridors  of  cells,  \vith  use  of  the  large  yard 
with  flagged  floor  and  running  water  (a  portion  of  the  day), 
were  turned  over  to  the  military  prisoners.  These  were  the 
quarters  of  five  hundred  men  (privates)  for  the  next  four 
months,  when  they  were  removed  pending  the  capture  of 
the  city  by  Farragut  and  its  occupation  by  Butler. 

The  cells  along  these  corridors  were  filled  with  prisoners 
or  war,  as  many  as  could  possibly  lie  on  the  floor.  One  of 
them,  J.  W.  Dickens,  of  Ohio,  wrote  for  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
the  following,  a  gem  of  poetry : 

^Deceased.     Vide  Roster. 


OCT.,  '61— JAN.,  '62.     NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  103 

Fragment. 

BY  J.  W.  D. 

'Twas  midnight,  and  save  the  tread 

Of  unneeded  sentinel,  quiet  as  of  the  dead 

Reigned.    An  angel,  clothed  in  robes  of  mist, 

Looked  in  upon  the  slumbering  forms,  and  kissed 

The  brows  of  those  whose  thought  in  sleep 

Reverted  to  the  ones  (whom  may  God's  presence  keep 

From  danger  or  distress)  they'd  left  behind. 

With  sympathetic  touch  she  loosed  the  mind 

Of  each;  then  gathering  with  nervous  hand 

Her  train,  she  passed  o'er  all  the  land, 

And  with  a  calm  delight  bent  o'er 

The  forms  of  those,  the  minds  she  bore 

Had  thought  on.    Then  in  her  mystic  veil  folded 

Them,  and  each  thought  \vas  in  them  all  remoulded. 

Parish  Prison,  New  Orleans,  February,  1861. 

Romance  in  Rebel  Prison,  1861. 

Not  many  days  had  passed  in  the  tobacco-factory  before 
squads  of  soldiers  began  to  get  acquainted,  for  mutual  asso 
ciations  and  encouragement,  and  mental  and  moral  support. 
Chess,  playing  cards,  checkers,  singing  clubs,  and  the  making 
of  small  bone  ornaments  gave  occupation  and  warded  off 
dread  melancholy. 

One  of  our  men  confided  to  us  that  only  the  previous  winter 
he  had  been  a  resident  of  Richmond,  and  had  become  engaged 
to  an  estimable  young  woman.  "  The  deuce  you  did/7  we 
exclaim,  "  and  what  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?"  "  Oh! 
there  won't  be  much  to  do,  I  guess.  I'll  let  her  know  I  am 
here,  but  I  don't  want  to  make  her  any  trouble  by  knowing 
a  d — d  Yankee  prisoner."  Harry  opened  correspondence 
with  the  young  lady  and  finally  made  a  date,  that  she  should 
join  the  crowd  across  the  street,  and  wear  a  red  ribbon  at 
her  neck  and  look  for  him  at  the  second  story  corner  window, 
Sunday  afternoon,  at  three  o'clock;  care  would  have  to  be 
taken  that  Harry  should  not  come  too  near  the  window  and 
so  invite  a  shot  from  the  sentry  on  the  street — an  occasional 
incident. 


104         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

This  tragic  tryst  continued  for  several  weeks,  and  those 
rough  men  with  gallantry  left  Harry  to  his  window,  and  who 
can  tell  what  telepathic  currents  were  left  unhindered  by 
those  unarmored  knights?  The  months  passed  and  Harry 
was  ill,  but  a  detail  of  five  hundred  prisoners  was  to  be  sent  to 
New  Orleans;  a  single  hand  clasp,  as  closely  guarded  prisoners 
filed  into  the  box  cars  making  up  the  Swiss  Sergeant's  (Wirz) 
train,  was  all  the  young  couple  were  vouchsafed  until  the  cruel 
war  was  over. 

"  A  soldier  of  the  legion  lay  dying  in  Algiers : 
There  was  lack  of  woman's  nursing, 
There  was  dearth  of  woman's  tears." 


PARISH  PRISON,  NEW  ORLEANS. 

On  arriving  at  the  Parish  Prison,  October,  1861,  the  Fed 
eral  soldiers  found  themselves  under  conditions  quite  different 
from  those  of  the  prisoners  going  to  Macon,  Salisbury,  Tus- 
caloosa,  and  Charleston,  and  will  show  marked  difference  in 
character,  associations  and  results.  Of  these  five  hundred 
men  about  seventy-five  were  from  New  England,  twenty- 
four  from  the  Fifth  Massachusetts,  about  twenty  from  Ober- 
lin,  Ohio  (undergraduates  of  Oberlin  College),  and  all  were 


OCT.,  '61— JAN.,  '62.     NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  105 

of  those  who  enlisted  under  Lincoln's  first  call  for  volunteers. 
The  variety  of  age,  nationality,  religion,  occupation  of  the 
Union  Army  was  represented,  and  individual  character  had 
opportunity  to  appear  with  marked  effect  not  only  on  the 
men,  but  on  the  history  of  the  period;  soon  after  settling  down 
to  the  new  conditions,  rations,  quarters,  and  associating 
fellowship,  the  Oberlin  students  arranged  Bible  study,  Sunday 
services  and  prayer  meetings,  while  the  Boston  contingent 
organized  a  Lyceum  and  Debating  Society  with  weekly  meet 
ings;  the  first  subject  debated,  Nov.  28,  being,  "  Resolved: 
that  the  present  war  will  be  ended  by  the  spring  of  1862." 
Doubtless  had  the  contest  depended  on  the  will  and  wishes 
of  these  prisoners,  the  result  would  have  been  as  they  decided. 
One  of  the  products  of  this  latter  was  a  newspaper,  "  The 
Stars  and  Stripes."  This  was  written  on  envelopes  and  slips 
of  paper  from  old  books,  and  read  at  the  meetings  of  the 
twenty  or  thirty  members.  By  a  happy  thought  these  papers 
were  preserved,  and  on  the  return  to  Boston  were  printed  and 
now  can  be  availed  of  to  throw  light  upon  the  character  and 
surroundings  of  these  first  volunteers  of  the  Union  Army,  of 
which  the  three  months'  men  of  the  Fifth  were  a  part. 

One  avocation  of  the  men  not  unusual  to  prisoners  of  all 
sorts,  where  the  existing  conditions  permit,  was  the  making 
of  ornaments,  tools,  etc.,  in  bone,  obtained  from  the  cook  or 
butcher,  and  sold  to  visitors  or  guard,  or  exchanged  for  bread 
or  soup.  One  member  of  a  Massachusetts  company  was  able 
to  sell  his  silver  watch  to  one  of  the  cook's  assistants  for 
"  half  a  biscuit  a  day  as  long  as  we  stay  in  this  prison";  this 
gave  his  companions  and  himself  comparative  luxury  for  the 
two  months  remaining  before  they  were  all  removed  to  Salis 
bury,  N.  C.  Apropos  of  the  bone  working,  one  of  the  craft 
sent  the  following  to  the  editor  of  "  The  Stars  and  Stripes  "  for 
the  week: 

Sonnet  on  Bones. 

I  propose  to  give  in  homely  rhyme 

A  few  hints  to  those  who  are  prone 
To  spend  the  few  hours  of  prison-time 

In  manufacturing  bone. 


106         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

For  though  the  labor  is  hard  indeed, 
And  in  money  but  very  small  pay, 

Yet  it  gives  us  the  exercise  we  need 
To  keep  disease  away. 

And  first  of  all  a  bone  must  be  got, 

Which  as  bones  are  weighed,  not  made, 

Is  not  an  easy  task,  I  wot, 

Where  so  many  are  in  the  trade. 

Here  I'll  tell  you  a  plan  you  can  try, 
It  has  Dominique  for  a  voucher, — 

He  says  that  bones  can  be  got  on  the  sly, 
By  giving  a  ring  to  the  butcher. 

Bones  that  are  raw  are  best,  I  opine 

(Though  some  prefer  bones  that  are  boiled), 

As  the  first  will  easily  take  a  shine, 

For  which  in  vain  on  the  other  I've  toiled. 

It  matters  not  much  which  you  take, 
If  'tis  only  heavy,  clear  and  bright, 

And  if  a  thing  of  value  you'd  make, 
Your  bone  must  be  perfectly  white. 

Now,  here  let  me  advise, 

That  you  have  saw  and  knife  of  your  own. 
For  at  least  'tis  very  unwise 

To  be  bothering  friends  for  a    loan, 

If  you  borrow  my  saw,  'tis  my  hope 

That  you'll  use  it  as  I  myself  do. 
Put  on  plenty  of  water  and  soap, 

And  carry  your  band  firm  and  true. 

If  any  device  you  would  raise 
^  On  the  top  of  the  ring  that  you  make, 
The  edge  of  the  bone  you  always 
For  the  face  of  the  ring  must  take. 

If  the  bone  is  to  be  reduced  much, 

The  light-colored  stones  are  the  quickest; 

But  for  giving  the  finishing  touch, 

The  dark-colored  stones  are  the  slickest. 

I'll  tell  you  where  is  the  best  one,  — 

Near  the  barrels  on  the  side  next  the  tub. 

Where,  if  any  nice  work  is  to  be  done, 
I  give  the  finishing  rub. 

To  assist  you  in  shaping  the  bone, 

And  briefly — I'll  only  just  say, 
That  at  the  point  where  most  weight  is  put  on, 

The  bone  will  wear  fastest  away. 


OCT.,  '61—  JAN.,  '62.     NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  107 

By  experience  here  I  have  found 

That  in  making  the  hole  for  the  ring, 
A  piece  of  cloth  round  your  knife-handle  wound 

Is  what  your  sojer  boys  call—"  a  big  thing." 

For  smoothing  them  inside  and  put, 

A  properly  shaped  piece  of  brick 
Is  better,  beyond  a  doubt, 

Than  the  old-fashioned  sand  on  a  stick. 

If  like  a  very  rare  gem. 

You'd  have  them  take  polish  as  bright, 
In  soap  and  water  just  put  them, 

And  let  them  lie  there  over  night. 

A  piece  of  thick  woolen  cloth 

With  some  brick-dust  sprinkled  thereon, 
Is  the  best  thing  that  I  know  of, 

To  put  a  finish  on  bone. 

Don't  make  your  rings  too  stout, 

Beauty  for  lack  of  strength  will  atone — 
Who  wishes  to  carry  about 

A  great  clumsy  chunk  of  a  bone? 

If  a  handsome  stiletto  you'd  make, 

That  you'll  not  be  ashamed  to  carry  home, 

The  greatest  care  you  should  take 
In  shaping  the  finger  and  thumb. 

Would  you  get  up  a  book,  an  anchor,  or  heart, 

That  you  may  expect  to  admire, 
Give  it  the  utmost  extent  of  your  art, 

No  matter  how  much  time  'twill  require. 

We  know  that  rings  must  buy  bread, 

But  remember  the  dear  ones  at  home, 
And  make  up  some  nice  things  ahead, 

To  carry  when  the  "  good  time  "  shall  come. 

The  "  good  time  "  is  coming,  my  friends, 

May  it  see  none  but  joyful  tears; 
Grind" bone  till  captivity  ends, 

And  away  with  your  doubts  and  fears. 

[By  S.  B.  Simmons,  First  Rhode  Island  Regiment.   From 
"Stars  and  Stripes,"   Parish  Prison,   New  Orleans,   1861.] 

Among  the  men  there  was  a  good  deal  of  discussion  as  to 
the  justice  of  our  government  neglecting  to  arrange  an  ex 
change  of  prisoners.  To  help  formation  of  a  correct  public 


108 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


sentiment  the  following  article  appeared  in  uThe  Stars  and 
Stripes/'  Dec.  12,  1861: 


INTERIOR  PARISH  PRISON. 

A  Word  Upon  Exchange. 

Mr.  Editor.  Sir:  Allow  me,  through  the  columns  of 
your  valuable  paper,  to  offer  a  slight  rebuke  to  a  class  of  in 
dividuals,  of  whom  I  am  sorry  to  say  there  are  quite  a  number 
amongst  us.  I  denominate  them  "the  growlers,"  and  their 
chief  offense  consists  in  their  complaining  continually  of  the 
Federal  government  because  it  does  not  gratify  the  Southern 
Confederacy  and  them  by  consenting  to  a  regular  exchange  of 
prisoners.  Let  me,  sir,  in  as  brief  a  manner  as  possible, 
endeavor  to  show  them  the  folly  and  selfishness  of  such  a 
course.  It  is  acknowledged  on  all  hands  that  if  the  Federal 
government  agrees  to  exchange  prisoners  in  the  manner  usual 
between  two  nations  at  war  with  each  other,  it  will  virtually 
acknowledge  this  so-called  Southern  Confederacy  to  have  the 
rights  of  a  nation.  The  course  of  our  government,  the 
opinions  of  the  press,  and  the  anxious  endeavor  of  the  rebels 
to  bring  about  such  an  arrangement,  are  sufficient  evidence 
to  establish  the  position  I  have  assumed,  without  recourse  to 
further  argument.  It  will  not  be  denied  that  the  fond  hope 
and  chief  reliance  of  the  leaders  of  this  rebellion  was  in  the 


OCT.,  '61— JAN.,  '62.     NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  109 

belief  that  foreign  governments  would  be  obliged  to  recog 
nize  them.  The  most  sanguine  of  them  have  been  obliged  to 
relinquish  all  hope  of  such  an  event.  Would  it  then  be  wise 
for  our  own  government  to  adopt  the  very  course  that  in 
other  nations  they  have  been  exerting  strenuous  efforts  to 
prevent?  Can  we  be  so  selfish  as  to  imagine  for  one  moment 
that  it  is  the  duty  of  our  government  to  sacrifice  the  welfare 
of  twenty  millions  of  people —  and  of  who  can  tell  how  many 
millions  yet  unborn? —  for  the  sake  of  returning  to  civilized 
life  two  or  three  thousand  men  who  volunteered  their  lives, 
if  need  be,  to  protect  the  government  they  now  so  unjustly 
censure?  I  should  consider  it  one  of  the  greatest  evils  that 
could  befall  me  if  for  a  single  moment  my  fidelity  to  the 
Federal  government  should  be  doubted.  Our  sufferings  are 
as  nothing  compared  with  those  of  our  forefathers  in  their 
struggle  to  establish  what  we  now  support.  It  is  natural 
that  men  should  grow  irritable  and  gloomy,  situated  as  we  are, 
and  if  one  does  not  carefully  examine  the  case,  he  will  be  apt 
to  find  fault  with  our  government;  we  hope,  however,  these 
few  words  will  call  all  back  to  reason.  Depend  upon  it,  our 
government  is,  and  has  been,  doing  all  that  consistently  lies 
in  its  power  to  release  us.  I  doubt  not  it  has  made  honorable 
proposals  to  our  captors  for  our  release,  but  they  have  been 
rejected  simply  because  they  do  not  gratify  their  pride  and 
fulfill  their  hopes  of  recognition.  If  it  is  possible  for  our 
government  to  release  us,  they  will.  Let  us,  then,  bear  up 
bravely  under  our  trials,  until  such  time  as  either  our  victorious 
arms  or  successful  diplomacy  may  honorably  release  us. 

Truly  yours, 

Contentment. 

Xo.  4  of  "  The  Stars  and  Stripes/'  or  that  for  Dec.  19th 
leads  off  with  as  fine  a  specimen  of  irony  as  could  or  can  be 
found  anywhere,  remembering  the  loud  boasting  of  the  South 
and  the  impoverished  condition  in  which  the  people  speedily 
found  themselves. 

Singular  Facts  Established  During  the  Rebellion  of  1861. 

Wooden  shoes  are  superior  to  leather  ones;  they  are  more 
pliable.  Cotton  cloth  is  far  warmer  than  woolen,  and  more 
endurable.  When  enough  corn  is  raised  in  one  year  to  supply 
the  people  for  two  years,  it  is  necessary  to  raise  the  price  two 


110         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

hundred  per  cent,  higher  than  when  none  is  grown.  Rye 
coffee  is  much  superior  to  Mocha.  All  the  soldiers  in  the 
Southern  army  are  "gentlemen"  (query — •  what  kind  of  a 
gentleman  is  the  individual  who,  for  the  last  two  or  three 
days,  has  carried  out  the  refuse?).  Red,  blue,  or  green  pieces 
of  pasteboard  are  superior  to  coin  as  a  circulating  medium. 
In  the  South,  there  are  any  quantity  of  fine-salt  mines,  yet 
the  people  prefer  to  use  coarse.  Orange-leaves  make  much 
better  tea  than  hyson  does.  The  Southern  army  is  always 
victorious,  and  yet  never  fails  to  fall  back  when  the  enemy 
advances;  and  it  is  an  utter  impossibility  for  them  to  lose 
more  than  one  man. 

The  week  just  passed  (Jan.  15,  1862)  is  perhaps  the  one  to 
be  longest  remembered  by  the  prisoners  of  war  in  New  Orleans, 
unless  it  be  the  week  which  shall  witness  our  departure.  The 
government  has  sent  to  us  a  full  supply  of  clothing,  with  its 
usual  liberality.  The  supply  sent  is  abundant;  every  man  is 
now  comfortably  clothed,  either  for  remaining  here  or  going 
home.  Of  the  distribution  of  the  clothing  we  have  less  reason 
to  complain  than  we  expected.  Instead  of  a  few  dozen  shirts 
finding  their  way  to  the  backs  of  Confederate  soldiers  and  other 
criminals,  it  is  perhaps  surprising  that  the  whole  cases  of 
coats  or  pants  were  not  lost  (?)  on  the  way  from  Norfolk  to 
New  Orleans.  Gen.  Palfrey,*  we  say,  has  done  his  duty;  the 
clothing  was  given  out  impartially  and  expeditiously,  with  as 
much  care  as  would  have  been  used  in  our  own  army.  We 
suppose  our  fellow  soldiers  in  Tuscaloosa  have  been  sim 
ilarly  provided  for. 

*Henry  William  Palfrey,  Brigadier-General  of  Militia  and  Provost 
Marshal  of  New  Orleans  in  1861,  was  a  native  of  Boston,  Feb.  8,  1798, 
a  brother  of  John  G.  Palfrey,  the  distinguished  historian  of  New  Eng 
land.  Their  father,  John  Palfrey,  settled  in  New  Orleans  in  1810,  accom 
panied  by  two  sons,  H.  W.  and  Wm.  Taylor,  both  of  them  relatives  of 
Edward  A.  Palfrey,  West  Point,  1851,  and  who  was  a  prominent  officer  in 
the  Confederate  service.  When  the  Provost  Marshal  visited  the  prison,  he 
was  recognized  by  Wm.  C.  Bates  as  one  of  the  speakers  at  the  banquet 
served  in  Faneuil  Hall,  Boston,  July  4th,  1859.  When  accosted  by  the 
prisoner  the  officer  was  not  a  little  surprised,  but  he  recovered  enough 
to  remark:  "Well,  didn't  I  give  them  what  they  deserved?"  On  the 
occasion  named,  the  poet  was  William  Winter,  the  orator  George  Sumner, 
brother  of  the  more  famous  Senator.  He  had  criticised  the  then  recent 


OCT.,  '61— JAN.,  '62.     NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  Ill 

There  is  one  thing  in  this  connection  we  have  to  say.  We 
have  reason  to  believe  that  a  deep-laid  plot  exists  on  the  part 
of  the  officers  near  us,  aided  by  the  captain  of  this  prison,  to 
induce  the  men  to  sell  their  clothing  at  a  small  part  of  its  real 
value.  They  wish  to  clothe  whole  companies  in  the  good 
substantial  clothing  of  Uncle  Sam.  To  accomplish  this,  the 
criminals  are  authorized  to  buy  what  they  can;  and  the 
guards  are  put  up  to  trade  for  shoes,  shirts,  or  anything  they 
can  barter  for.  They  openly  boast  that  in  a  month's  time 
they  will  have  uniforms  enough  for  an  entire  company. 
Soldiers  of  the  Army!  this  must  not  be.  The  idea  is  an  insult 
to  your  honor.  See  to  it  that  you  prove  yourselves  above 
such  cupidity.  We  know  you  need  only  to  be  warned  in  time, 
to  be  saved  from  such  shame.  For  the  honor  of  our  county, 
go  out  of  this  prison  well  clothed  in  the  most  honorable  gar 
ments  you  can  wear  —  those  of  the  United  States  soldier. 

Parish  Prison,  N.  O.,  January,  1862. 

A  meeting  was  held  in  the  yard  this  morning,  January  18th, 
to  consider  the  expedience  of  adopting  some  measures  to 
prevent  the  selling  of  clothing  to  the  enemy.  Mr.  Bates 
called  the  meeting  to  order,  and  on  motion,  Mr.  Stiles  of  Ohio 
was  chosen  chairman.  The  meeting  was  then  addressed  by 

decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  the  Dred  Scott  case.  The  toast  to 
which  General  Palfrey  was  called  to  speak  was,  "The  Cotton  States: 
Producers  of  the  staple  we  consume  and  consumers  of  the  manufactures 
we  produce,  etc."  In  speaking  the  General  said  he  was  a  native  of  Boston, 
but  his  fifty  years  of  living  in  New  Orleans  would  not  permit  him  to  sit 
and  hear,  unchallenged,  the  defiance  hurled  against  the  laws  of  the  country 
and  the  courts,  and  more  to  similar  effect.  He  concluded  by  offering  the 
sentiment,  "  Boston  and  New  Orleans:  Two  of  the  most  important  cities 
in  the  Union;  linked  together  by  the  strongest  ties  of  patriotic  and  commer 
cial  interests,  may  they  always  be  ready,  as  in  the  past,  to  defend  the 
principles  of  our  Glorious  Union."  To  recall,  so  far  away  from  Boston, 
such  an  incident  was  pleasant  to  both  prisoner  and  officer.  In  many  ways 


indirectly  to  Mr.  Geo.  W.  Cable  of  Northampton  and  directly  to  Mr. 
Frank  A.  Palfrey  of  New  Orleans,  son  of  General  Edward  A.  Palfrey, 
himself  the  son  of  Robert  J.  Palfrey,  who  was  a  first  cousin  of  the  Provost 
Marshal.- -A.  S.  R. 


112         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Mr.  Bates,  of  Massachusetts;  Mr.  Dickens,  of  New  York; 
Mr.  Hendrickson,  of  Maine,  and  Sergt.  Bohm,  of  Ohio,  in 
able  and  patriotic  speeches.  A  committee  of  five  was  ap 
pointed  to  report  to  our  government  any  cases  of  the  disposing 
of  clothing  to  the  enemy.  The  committee  consists  of  Wheeler, 
of  Mass.;  Hendrickson,  of  Maine;  Bohm  of  Ohio;  Edmiston, 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  Dickson,  of  New  York.  The  meeting 
adjourned  sine  die. 

[It  is  interesting  to  note  that  nearly  every  number  of 
"The  Stars  and  Stripes"  has  an  announcement  of  the  regular 
prayer-meetings  and  the  Bible  class,  though  it  was  seemingly 
incongruous  that  they  should  be  held  in  certain  "cells."  In 
this  connection  it  is  not  amiss  to  note  that  possibly  the  prison 
song  of  war  times  beginning,  "In  my  prison  cell  I  sit,"  etc., 
may  have  come  from  this  New  Orleans  experience,  for  all  the 
world  knows  that  the  many  thousands  of  Yankees  who  were 
held  in  Richmond,  Andersonville,  and  Salisbury  knew  nothing 
of  "cells."  What  more  reasonable  than  that  a  copy  of  "Stars 
and  Stripes"  may  have  come  into  the  hands  of  Henry  C.  Work 
and  from  his  reading  there  arose  the  wording  of  his  "Tramp, 
tramp,  tramp"? — A.  S.  R.] 

The  Flagless  Company  of  Patriots. 

As  noted  above  there  were  among  the  prisoners  a  number 
of  students  from  Oberlin  College  who  took  part  in  occasional 
prayer-meetings  and  Bible  classes.  The  prisoners  at  times 
asked  for  Sunday  services,  to  which  the  Provost  Marshal 
(Palfrey)  consented;  quite  naturally  the  Episcopalians  sug 
gested  that  an  Episcopal  clergyman  come  in,  and  on  one 
occasion  this  request  was  granted,  and  the  Episcopalians 
were  quite  happy  in  having  one  of  their  own  connection 
conduct  the  services,  but  unfortunately,  when  that  portion  of 
the  ritual  came  to  the  prayer  for  the  President,  the  clergyman 
proceeded  according  to  the  form  of  the  Southern  Church, 
and  in  a  rotund  voice  prayed  for  Jefferson  Davis,  President 
of  the  Confederate  States  of  America.  The  assembled 
audience  with  one  accord  rose  from  their  knees  and  with  jeers 


OCT.,  '61— JAN.,  '62.    NEW  ORLEANS,  LA.  113 

and  cries  of  derision  started  for  their  cells,  whereby  the 
service  was  seriously  interrupted.  There  was  not  much 
use  for  apologies  to  the  minister. 

It  is  probable  that  the  first  feeling  on  being  taken  a  prisoner 
is  of  sadness  at  the  loss  to  the  country,  and  all  it  means, 
rather  than  of  personal  disappointment,  and  yet  subsequent 
homesickness  is  one  of  the  greatest  causes  of  illness  and 
despondence,  and  no  doubt  a  serious  increase  of  mortality. 
The  love  of  the  flag  is  not  an  idle  sentiment  to  the  imprisoned 
soldier,  for  henceforth  he  leads  a  flagless  life.  Above  him 
floats  the  flag  of  the  Confederacy,  and  how  he  hates  that  flag! 
It  means  more  to  him  than  it  does  to  the  ordinary  citizen, 
as  it  is  the  flag  of  his  country.  On  one  occasion,  Christmas, 
'61,  it  occurred  to  some  of  the  prisoners  that  a  celebration 
appropriate  to  the  day  and  the  situation  should  be  held  by 
the  prisoners.  The  program  of  music  and  recitations  was 
provided.  The  platform  entrance  to  one  of  the  second 
story  cells  furnished  a  good  rostrum,  and  at  the  proper  time 
the  men  would  assemble  in  the  court  of  the  prison,  and  a 
program  of  recitations  and  songs  proceeded.  Finally,  towards 
the  end  of  the  exercises  when  the  enthusiasm  of  the  audience 
had  attained  marked  success,  it  came  to  Childs  (Co.  K)  to 
sing  from  this  elevated  position  in  sight  of  the  audience  the 
"  Star  Spangled  Banner."  The  attention  of  these  flagless 
men  was  intense,  and  when  he  came  to  the  lines  "  The  Star 
Spangled  Banner  shall  yet  wave,  O'er  the  land  of  the  free  and 
the  home  of  the  brave,"  Childs  drew  from  his  breast  a  little 
silk  flag  that  somebody  had  preserved,  in  proportion  8"  x  10", 
and  waved  it  before  these  excited  men,  then  the  enthusiasm 
rose  to  an  unrestrained  height  with  shouts  and  cheers  of  joy. 
Those  who  were  present  can  never  forget  the  emotions  of 
that  exceptional  moment.  The  prisoners  were  called  to 
order  by  the  attendants  and  sent  to  their  cells  for  punishment 
for  24  hours,  which  was  a  trifle.  They  had  testified  to  their 
devotion  to  the  flag  of  their  country. 


114         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

(Two  prison  letters  from  a  Co.  G  boy.) 

Richmond,  Va.,  July  30,  1861. 
My  dear  Mother: 

I  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Manassas  and  the  next 
day  was  taken  to  this  place  with  others.  There  are  five  of 
the  Concord  company  here,  viz.,  Sidney  Rice,  Cyrus,  Hosmer, 
Edward  Wheeler,  —  Bates  of  Boston,  and  myself.  We  are 
treated  well  and  have  plenty  of  everything  but  liberty;  do 
not  be  uneasy  on  my  account.  I  will  return  as  soon  as  pos 
sible,  but  when  that  will  be,  you  know  as  well  as  I. 

Yours  affectionately, 

H.  L.  Wheeler. 
We  are  all  well  and  hearty. 

Salisbury,   N.   C.,   April  20th,   '62. 
My  dear  Mother: 

I  have  not  received  any  letters  from  you  or  any  one  at  home 
since  coming  here  and  I  feel  quite  anxious  about  you.  Since 
my  last  letter  to  you,  nothing  of  interest  has  happened  (to) 
me.  We  are  all  well  and  do  not  want  for  anything  but  liberty, 
that  we  do  not  expect  at  present,  but  we  hope  the  day  of  our 
release  is  not  very  distant,  until  then  you  must  do  the  best 
you  can  for  yourselves  at  home,  and  not  trouble  yourselves 
any  at  all  on  my  account,  as  I  can  take  care  of  myself  any 
where.  I  have  made  great  plans  for  the  future,  if  God  would 
spare  my  life  until  peace  is  restored  to  our  country,  and  if  He 
sees  fit  to  take  it,  I  hope  to  meet  you  in  that  better  world 
above.  O  that  we  all  may  meet  there  as  a  family  is  of  far 
more  importance  than  another  meeting  on  earth.  I  have 
never  realized  the  importance  of  a  good  and  holy  life  until 
since  I  became  a  prisoner. 

From  Henry. 

The  envelope  containing  this  letter  bears  the  frank  of  John  L.  N.  Stratton, 
Member  of  Congress  in  those  days  from  New  Jersey.  Such  letters  were 
forwarded  through  the  kindness  of  Congressmen,  since  the  prisoners 
themselves  had  no  stamps  — -A.  S.  R. 

In  February,  '62,  the  New  Orleans  prisoners  were  trans 
ferred  to  Salisbury,  North  Carolina,  thus  introducing  that 
place  to  the  rest  of  the  world,  fated  to  become  in  following 
years  as  famous  as  the  Black  Hole  of  Calcutta  or  the  Hellish 
Conciergerie  of  Paris,  though  the  possibilities  of  suffering 


FEBRUARY,  '62. 


SALISBURY,  N.  C. 


115 


here  were  not  unfolded  to  these  earlier  prisoners.  The  start 
from  New  Orleans  was  made  Feb.  6th  and  the  impression  was 
given  that  it  was  for  an  immediate  release,  but  after  a  nine 
days'  trip  the  men  found  themselves,  one  very  dark  and  stormy 
night,  alighting  at  an  unknown  station,  whence,  through  the 
mud  and  darkness,  they  marched  some  distance  on  and  were 
turned  into  a  large  building  wholly  unlighted,  on  whose  floors, 
however,  the  weary  travelers  were  glad  to  throw  themselves 


...,-••• 


OLD  COTTON  MILL,  SALISBURY,  N.  C 

at  once.  Morning  revealed  the  quarters  to  be  a  large,  unused 
cotton-mill  in  Salisbury,  and  here  the  remainder  of  their  stay 
in  Rebeldom  was  to  be  spent.  It  was  here  that  the  histrionic 
talent  of  the  men  was  exhibited,  and  in  some  inscrutable 
manner  they  managed  to  arrange  and  equip  after  a  fashion  a 
stage  on  which  they  played  dramas,  most  wonderful  to  behold. 
How  the  dress  of  a  woman  was  ever  smuggled  into  the  prison, 
only  those  implicated  can  tell,  but  there  it  was  with  a  masculine 
occupant,  who  played  his  feminine  part  so  well  that  Confederate 


116         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

officers  drew  their  swords  and  rushed  towards  the  performers, 
demanding  to  know  how  that  woman  got  there.  Though 
the  revelation  appeased  them,  the  lovelorn  prisoners  could 
not  be  satisfied  until  they  had  crowded  upon  the  stage  and 
with  their  embraces  nearly  smothered  the  Yankee  counterfeit 
maiden.  It  is  claimed  that  Confederate  and  considerate 
officers  assisted  in  equipping  the  stage  and  in  securing  costumes. 
The  only  men  of  the  Fifth  who  participated  in  the  playing 
were  Bates  of  G  and  Childs  of  K.  As  time  wore  on,  men  who 
had  held  up  bravely  through  the  New  Orleans  tests,  here 
lost  their  courage  and,  giving  up  completely,  were  the  first  of 
those  whose  burial  trenches  now  hold  more  than  13,000 
unnamed  Union  lovers  within  the  Salisbury  inclosure. 

The  day  of  release  from  this  Old  North  State  prison  came 
May  23d,  when  having  signed  their  parole,  they  were  marched 
out  of  the  pen  and  to  the  railroad  station,  whence  by  train 
they  went  to  Tarboro,  where,  going  aboard  an  open  scow, 
they  were  towed  down  the  Tar  River  to  Washington,  under 
the  Confederate  flag  and  the  white  one  of  truce,  the  Union 
forces  having  already  occupied  this  place,  named  for  the 
Father  of  his  Country.  Never  had  the  Union  flag  seemed 
half  so  beautiful  as  when  these  men  saw  it  floating  from  the 
masthead  of  a  Federal  gunboat,  but  the  cheers  they  were 
going  to  give  when  their  Union  saviors  came  alongside,  died 
breathless;  they  were  too  happy  for  expression.  Very  soon 
they  found  themselves  upon  a  Government  transport,  beneath 
the  Starry  Banner  and  "  Homeward  Bound."  Three  days 
of  steam  and  wave  brought  them  to  New  York,  whence  little 
time  was  lost  in  departing  for  the  sheltering  haven  of  old 
Massachusetts. 


OFFICERS     FIFTH     REGIMENT 

VETERAN    ASSOCIATION, 

1904-5. 


COLONEL    GEORGE    H.    PEIRSON, 


NINE  MONTHS'  SERVICE. 
Preliminary. 

Early  in  July,  1862,  President  Lincoln  issued  an  order 
calling  for  300,000  volunteers  to  serve  for  three  years,  or  until 
the  end  of  the  war,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  new  regiments 
or  for  filling  the  ranks  of  those  already  in  the  service.  Of  this 
great  number  15,000  were  assigned  to  Massachusetts.  On  the 
7th  of  July,  Adjutant-general  Schouler  issued  General  Order 
No.  26,  apportioning  the  levy  to  the  cities  and  towns.  The 
response  to  this  order  was  prompt,  enthusiastic  and  inspiring, 
but  its  demands  had  not  been  fully  met  before  there  came  from 
the  President,  August  4th,  another  call  for  "  Three  Hundred 
Thousand  More/'  for  nine  months,  these  men  to  be  drafted. 
The  demand  from  Massachusetts  in  this  call  was  19,080  men, 
or  quite  4000  more  than  in  the  previous  summons.  On  what 
basis  the  apportionment  was  made,  no  one  ever  knew,  though 
it  was  found,  on  adding  the  two  apportionments,  that  the 
aggregate,  34,080,  bore  about  the  same  proportion  to  the 
600,000  that  the  free  population  of  the  Commonwealth  did 
to  the  similar  population  of  those  states  in  which  the  majority 
of  the  people  had  shown  themselves  loyal  and  to  be  Union 
supporters. 

The  thought  of  a  draft,  however,  was  repugnant  to  the 
feelings  of  those  in  authority  and  equally  disagreeable  to  the 
people  at  large,  they  being  ready  to  make  the  most  strenuous 
efforts  to  raise  the  required  number  by  volunteering  before 
the  time  for  drafting  should  arrive.  Accordingly  they  early 
sought  to  know  what  would  be  required  of  the  several  munici 
palities,  a  difficult  question  to  answer  because  of  the  fact  that 
many  towns  had  far  exceeded  their  quotas  and,  besides,  the 
enrollment  of  the  militia  was  also  in  considerable  confusion. 
In  the  solving  of  the  problems  thus  arising,  no  more  efficient 


120         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

aid  was  given  the  Department  of  the  Adjutant-general  than 
that  rendered  by  Prof.  Charles  W.  Eliot,  of  Harvard, 
later  to  become  the  famous  President  of  the  University.  It 
was  early  determined  to  call  upon  the  militia  regiments  for 
further  service,  as  well  as  to  raise  a  certain  number  of  new 
regiments.  To  the  everlasting  credit  of  Massachusetts,  it 
should  be  recorded  that  the  demands  for  both  calls  were  met 
without  recourse  to  the  distasteful  draft,  thus  far  all  of  her 
soldiery  being  volunteers. 

Repeatedly  Governor  Andrew  requested  from  the  National 
Government  the  postponement  of  the  draft,  and  its  infliction 
was  finally  left  to  his  discretion,  and  with  the  above  result. 
What  efforts  were  made  to  fill  the  quotas  and  so  stave  off  the 
dread  imposition!  The  Governor  requested  that  all  of  the 
places  of  business  in  the  State  be  closed  in  the  afternoon, 
during  the  last  week  in  August,  and  in  Boston  this  request 
culminated  in  a  monster  mass  meeting  on  the  Common, 
addressed  by  the  city's  two  most  famous  orators,  Edward 
Everett  and  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  besides  the  Governor  him 
self,  whose  closing  words  to  the  immense  throng  were,  telling 
the  possible  soldiers  to  go  into  any  one  of  the  regiments  then 
in  the  field  or  those  in  formation,  "  But  go  somewhere.  Go 
now,  go  together,  all  of  you,  and  heaven  bless  you.  Save 
and  preserve  our  country,  and  be  with  our  children  forever, 
as  God  has  been  with  our  fathers  until  now."  On  Sunday, 
August  10th,  he  had  addressed  an  audience  of  8000  people 
at  the  Martha's  Vineyard  camp  meeting,  who,  he  was  sure, 
were  with  him  in  political  faith  and  the  emotions  of  the  hour, 
making  there  what  he  always  considered  the  best  speech  of 
his  life.  It  was  here  that  he  uttered  the  famous  expression, 
so  often  quoted,  "  I  know  not  what  record  of  sin  awaits  me 
in  another  world,  but  this  I  know,  that  I  was  never  mean 
enough  to  despise  any  man  because  he  was  ignorant,  or  because 
he  was  poor, — or  because  he  was  black."  The  "  Amens  " 
and  shouts  of  "  Glory "  that  greeted  this  sentiment  told 
where  the  hearts  of  his  listeners  were. 


AUGUST,  '62.  THE  COMPANIES.  121 

The  year  following  the  return  of  the  Fifth  from  its  three 
months'  tour  of  duty  had  not  been  particularly  encouraging 
to  the  Union  cause,  and  the  more  recent  disastrous  conclusion 
of  the  Peninsular  campaign  had  filled  many  a  heart  with  fore 
bodings,  yet  when,  on  the  14th  of  August,  the  call  came  for 
the  regiment  to  again  advance,  there  was  an  immediate  agree 
ment  to  go.  A  meeting  of  the  commissioned  officers  of  the 
Fifth  was  held  that  very  day,  in  Charlestown,  and  they  voted 
unanimously  to  tender  their  services  for  nine  months  in  the 
field.  This  action  was  reported  by  Colonel  Peirson  to  the 
Governor,  who  at  once  accepted  and  ordered  the  regiment 
to  be  filled  to  the  maximum.  Though  the  numerical  desig 
nation  of  the  regiments  in  the  first  and  second  service  was  the 
same,  there  was  really  very  little  identity  in  the  two  organi 
zations.  As  may  be  seen  in  the  summary,  appended  to  the 
Roster  of  the  Minute-men,  the  maj  ority  of  those  who  marched 
from  Annapolis  to  Washington  and,  after  camping  on  the 
sacred  soil  of  Virginia,  had  displayed  their  courage  and  endur 
ance  at  Bull  Run,  were  enlisted  in  scores  of  the  regiments 
of  Massachusetts  and  other  states  and  were  in  a  loyal  manner 
proving  the  efficiency  of  the  drill  received  in  their  early  cam 
paign.  Of  the  Field  and  Staff,  only  the  Colonel  and  Lieut. - 
colonel  were  out  in  the  three  months'  term,  and  a  reading  of 
the  roster  for  the  present  term  reveals  comparatively  few 
names  starred,  indicative  of  former  service  in  the  Fifth. 


THE  COMPANIES. 

The  companies  that  made  up  the  Fifth  Regiment  in  its 
first  term  of  service  seem  to  have  almost  entirely  disappeared. 
Company  B,  South  Reading  or  Wakefield,  was  to  reappear 
as  "  E  "  of  the  50th;  Company  D,  Haverhill,  also  had  a  place 
as  "  G  "  in  the  same  regiment,  its  Captain,  C.  D.  Messer, 
being  commissioned  Colonel,  and  Captain  John  W.  Locke  ot 
B,  Lieut. -colonel;  Company  E,  the  Lawrence  Light  Guard 


122        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

of  Medford,  was  to  win  renown  as  "C"  of  the  39th,  a  three- 
years'  regiment;  to  some  extent,  B  of  Somerville  revived  I,  of 
the  first  term,  Company  C,  Charlestown,  reappeared  in  "  D  " 
of  the  same  city,  while  Company  H  had  a  considerable  nucleus 
from  "  K  "  of  the  Minute-men.  The  first  term  Companies, 
A,  B,  D,  F  and  H,  had  no  representatives  in  the  second  service. 
So  intense  was  the  strain  in  behalf  of  soldiering  at  the  front, 
apparently  very  little  attention  was  given  to  the  citizen  sol 
dier  at  home.  It  certainly  seems  as  though,  at  the  best,  the 
militia  bodies  in  1862  were  little  better  than  skeleton  organi 
zations,  existing  for  emergencies  only. 

These  were  the  opening  days  of  bounty  giving.  While 
many  men  were  ready  to  go,  there  were  as  many,  or  more, 
quite  content  to  stay  at  home.  It  seemed  only  reasonable 
that  some  extra  incentive  should  be  offered  those  who  were 
willing  to  imperil  life,  aside  from  the  not  over-alluring  com 
pensation  offered  of  $13  per  month.  Though  the  sums  paid 
were  far  below  the  great  amounts  offered  in  '64  and  '65,  yet 
the  lump  sum  of  $100  in  hand  had  an  alluring  look  to  the 
men  and  boys  of  those  days  and  was  one  source  of  the  draft's 
avoidance.  In  Marlboro,  objecting  voters  were  brought 
to  time  in  a  very  effective  manner,  for  of  course  there  were 
those  who  insisted  that  patriotism  alone  ought  to  suffice, 
though  nothing  moved  them.  The  first  proposition  was  that 
the  bounty  be  $50,  and  by  amendments  the  sum  advanced  to 
$100,  to  which  strong  objections  were  made,  until  E.  P.  Dart, 
one  of  the  solid  men  of  the  town,  arose  and  moved  that  $25 
be  added,  and  further  said,  if  objection  was  made,  he  would 
move  another  $25.  This  ended  the  debate,  and  volunteers 
from  that  town  received  $125  each. 

Wholly  new  companies  were  raised  to  be  lettered  A,  C,  E, 
G  and  K,  while  recruiting  was  started  immediately  to  bring 
the  older  companies  up  to  the  standard.  The  old  and  new 
organizations  as  finally  mingled  were  as  follows:  A  (new), 
Charlestown;  B  (Light  Infantry),  Somerville;  C  (new),  South 


SEPTEMBER,  '62.  THE  COMPANIES.  123 

Danvers;  D,  Charlestown;  E  (new),  Boston,  Cape  Cod  and 
Middlesex  Co.;  F,  Medford  (Light  Infantry);  G,  Woburn, 
though  new  at  this  time,  it  secured  the  same  letter  as  borne 
by  the  Woburn  company,  disbanded  just  as  the  war  began; 
H,  Charlestown;  I,  Marlboro;  K  (new),  Watertown  and 
Waltham.  From  the  day  of  proffering  the  services  of  the 
regiment  and  their  acceptance,  strenuous  efforts  were  made  to 
secure  additions  to  the  several  companies.  Essex,  Middlesex 
and  Barnstable  Counties  gave  their  sons  so  freely  that  by  the 
10th  of  September,  five  companies  were  in  Camp  Lander, 
town  of  Wenham,  Essex  Co.,  the  camp  bearing  the  name  of 
that  brave  son  of  Salem,  General  Frederick  W.  Lander,  who, 
after  a  brief  but  brilliant  career  in  the  field,  died  March  2, 
1862,  in  Virginia.  By  the  29th  of  the  month  the  last  of  the 
ten  companies  was  in  the  camp. 

Though  the  departure  of  companies  and  regiments  no 
longer  occasioned  the  excitement  of  the  first  months  of  the 
war,  there  were  observances  whenever  a  body  of  men  went 
away  to  camp  or  the  field,  but  of  such  exercises,  let  those  in 
Medford,  when  Company  F  departed,  be  a  type  of  similar 
proceedings  elsewhere.  The  offer  of  a  $200  bounty  had 
resulted  in  the  speedy  recruiting  of  the  company,  so  that  in  a 
little  more  than  a  month  from  the  call  for  enlistments  the 
quota  was  full,  and  96  men  were  ready  for  camp.  Meeting  in 
the  Town  Hall,  September  22,  at  1  o'clock  p.m.,  they  proceeded 
thence  to  the  public  square,  where  prayer  was  offered  by  the 
Rev.  Geo.  M.  Preston.  At  2  o'clock,  preceded  by  the  Boston 
Brigade  Band,  they  marched  to  the  Eastern  Railroad  station, 
escorted  by  the  selectmen,  a  cavalcade  and  a  procession  of 
citizens,  under  the  direction  of  Thomas  S.  Harlow,  Esq. 
There  boarding  the  train,  they  rode  to  Wenham,  where,  in 
Camp  Lander,  they  enjoyed  a  bounteous  collation  furnished 
by  the  liberality  of  Medford  citizens.  Woburn  gave  her  sons 
$100  each,  and  on  the  10th  of  August,  the  Woburn  Mechanic 
Phalanx,  to  the  number  of  96  men,  assembled  in  the  armory, 
where  they  were  addressed  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  R.  P.  Stebbins, 


124        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,    NINE  MONTHS. 

and  were  thence  escorted  to  the  railroad  station  by  the  Pha 
lanx  Associates,  reaching  Wenham  at  4.30  p.m.  "  The  town 
seems  dull  without  them!  " 

CAMP  LANDER. 

The  camp  itself  was  delightfully  placed  on  the  shores  of 
Wenham  Lake,  long  noted  for  its  beauty,  the  location  being 
about  six  miles  north  of  Salem  and  at  the  left  of  the  railroad 
station.  Here  on  a  sandy  plain  were  well-built  barracks  and 
other  buildings  for  two  full  regiments,  and  for  a  time  the  Forty- 
eighth  was  a  companion  regiment  with  the  Fifth.  The  bunks 
were  in  tier?  of  two,  each  for  two  occupants;  they  were  bare, 
but  straw  was  handy.  At  first  thecamp  was  under  the  command 
of  Col.  E.  F.  Stone  of  Newburyport.  Companies  C,  E,  G,  H 
and  I  were  sworn  into  the  service  of  the  United  States,  Sep 
tember  16th,  by  Lieut.  James  M.  Brown,  U.  S.  A.  (7th  Reg't); 
B,  D  and  K  on  the  19th,  F  on  the  23d  and  A  on  the  29th. 
The  season  of  the  year  was  ideal  for  camp  life,  and  there  fol 
lowed  the  usual  routine  of  drill  and  guard  duty.  The  number 
of  young  men  assembled  in  camp  precluded  any  possibility 
of  dullness,  and  while  there  were  many  stirring  episodes, 
perhaps  nothing  occasioned  more  excitement,  while  it  lasted, 
than  the  raiding  of  the  sutler.  When  the  time  comes  that  a 
sutler  will  not  be  considered  lawful  plunder  to  the  average 
enlisted  man,  there  will  be  no  more  wars,  hence  no  sutlers  nor 
soldiers.  Just  what  was  the  particular  provocation  that 
brought  about  the  raid,  history  does  not  relate,  but  the  fact 
remains  that  the  purveyor  of  alleged  camp  necessities  was  in 
very  short  order  cleaned  out  completely  of  all  his  belongings. 
Probably  a  war  of  words  terminated  in  one  of  blows,  with  the 
result  that  the  assets  disappeared,  the  sutler  was  out  the  value 
of  his  goods  and  no  one  was  punished. 

Though  soldiers,  the  men  were  not  forgetful  of  politics, 
and  a  Congressional  campaign  as  well  as  the  annual  State 
contest  was  in  full  swing  in  September  and,  learning  that 


SEPTEMBER,  '62.  CAMP  LANDER.  125 

Charles  Sumner,  the  famous  Senator,  was  to  speak  in  Salem 
in  aid  of  the  candidacy  of  the  Hon.  John  B.  Alley  of  Lynn,  a 
party  was  made  up  to  visit  the  city,  under  the  command  and 
direction  of  Corporal  Wm.  Alley  (I),  and  after  the  address 
the  boys  thought  nothing  of  walking  back  six  miles  to  camp. 
An  entertaining  anecdote  comes  down  to  us  through  the 
years,  illustrative  of  the  talk  about  the  draft  which  must 
have  been  current  in  those  clays.  As  already  stated  that 
dreaded  ordeal  had  been  deferred  at  the  request  of  the  Gov 
ernor,  but  not  even  His  Excellency  could  prevent  the  drafts 
of  wind  that  would  rush  through  the  barracks  when,  through 
carelessness,  the  doors  were  left  open.  On  one  such  occasion, 
those  awake  were  greatly  amused  and  those  asleep  were  awak 
ened  by  the  stentorian  voice  of  a  non-commissioned  officer  of 
Company  I  who  roared,  "  Shut  the  door,  draft's  postponed." 
A  letter  home  by  a  Cape  Cod  boy  is  yet  extant,  and  its 
boyish  frankness  demands  a  permanent  place  here : 

Well,  here  we  are  in  camp,  though  we  are  hardly  settled 
in  our  new  mode  of  living  as  yet.  We  stopped  about  three 
hours  in  Boston  and  left  the  city  a  little  before  3  o'clock, 
there  being  three  companies  in  all.  The  people  cheered  us  as 
we  left  the  depot  and  as  we  passed  through  Lynn  and  Salem. 
And  by  the  way,  our  encampment  is  (at  W^enham)  on  the 
Eastern  R.  R.,  but  a  few  miles  beyond  Salem.  There  were 
seven  companies  on  the  ground  last  night  and  two  have  come 
on  this  morning.  We  (Dan  and  myself)  were  detailed  for 
guard  duty  last  night,  having  two  hours  on  the  watch  and  four 
off.  We  ought  to  have  been  on  the  same  duty  to-day,  but 
by  mistake  we  were  told  that  we  were  not  needed  and  a  new 
guard  was  detailed.  This  morning  the  company  was  drilled 
in  squads  between  8  and  9  o'clock,  but  we  were  exempted  on 
account  of  having  been  on  guard.  From  10  to  11  o'clock, 
the  company  drill  took  place,  in  which  we  took  our  first  lessons 
in  military  tactics.  The  drill  again  takes  place  between  the 
hours  ot  three  and  five.  Our  meal  hours  are  7  a.m.,  12.30  p.m. 
and  5.30  p.m.  Two  of  the  company  have  been  detailed  as 
cooks.  We  have  not  been  sworn  in  yet,  but  probably  will  as 
soon  as  possible,  and  receive  our  uniforms.  We  were  fur 
nished  with  two  blankets  last  night,  temporarily.  We  cannot 


126  FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.  V.  M.,   NINE  MONTHS. 

tell  when  we  shall  have  a  furlough,  but  probably  not  before 
next  week.  I  suppose  they  let  perhaps  half  a  dozen  go  home 
at  once.  You  must  excuse  the  writing,  as  my  desk  is  only 
a  newspaper  on  my  knee. 

Thus  for  six  weeks  there  was  a  continuance  of  drill  and 
preparation  for  active  service,  not  entirely  free  from  the  com 
plaints  that  soldiers  are  wont  to  make.  Clothing  did  not 
come  as  expected  and  no  day  wrent  by  without  some  one 
thinking  home  a  much  better  place  than  the  camp,  but,  as  a 
rule,  the  days  sped  along  filled  with  instruction  in  the  essen 
tials  of  military  life.  There  was  considerable  leeway  in  the 
matter  of  evenings  out  and,  late  in  the  stay,  leave  was  given 
to  a  squad, under  the  direction  of  a  non-commissioned  officer, 
to  attend  a  prayer-meeting  in  the  village  of  Wenham.  In  the 
midst  of  the  opening  prayer,  word  was  brought  that  a  terrible 
railroad  accident  had  taken  place,  just  a  little  north  of  the  vil 
lage.  The  prayer  \vas  ended  at  once,  and  the  men  asked  to 
report  at  the  scene  of  calamity  immediately.  Two  full  pas 
senger  trains  had  collided  at  almost  full  speed,  wrecking  the 
engines,  killing  three  of  the  four  men  on  them,  telescoping  the 
cars  and  wounding  the  passengers.  The  "  boys  "  of  the  Fifth 
proved  themselves  very  helpful  and,  by  the  immediate  sum 
moning  of  the  regimental  surgeons,  rendered  efficient  aid. 

Visitors  were  common  in  camp;  they  came  individually  and 
in  groups;  occasionally,  it  seemed  as  though  some  whole  village 
turned  out.  This  was  the  case  when  on  Thursday,  September 
25th,  at  10.30  in  the  forenoon,  the  Woburn  Phalanx  Associ 
ates  appeared,  the  pleasure  of  the  visit  being  common  to  all 
concerned.  They  remained  to  dinner,  partaking  of  the  common 
though  wholesome  fare  of  the  soldiers,  but,  for  the  sake  of 
variety,  they  had  brought  a  generous  dessert  with  them, 
enough  to  go  around  the  entire  company.  The  same  day  also 
brought  a  Woburn  boy  in  the  shape  of  John  L.  Parker  of  the 
Twenty-second  Mass.,  who  had  been  wounded  at  Games' 
Mills  and,  for  a  couple  of  months,  had  tasted  the  hospitality 
of  Libby  Prison,  and  was  just  home  from  a  Philadelphia  hos- 


OCTOBER,  '62.  CAMP  LANDER.  127 

pital.  His  locomotion  by  aid  of  crutch  and  cane  was  not 
much  like  his  wonted  agility.  He  made  a  good  example  of 
what  war  might  do  to  a  man.  October  3d  brought  Colonel 
Peirson  and  staff,  the  former  assuming  command  of  the  regi 
ment.  Tuesday,  the  7th,  the  Mayor  of  Salem  appeared  and 
presented  the  Colonel  with  a  fine  steed  and  trappings.  The 
next  day,  at  the  expense  of  the  non-commissioned  officers 
and  privates  of  Company  G,  Sergt.  Hastings  presented  Orderly 
Stevens  with  a  sword  and  sash.  The  chaplain  of  the  regi 
ment,  Wm.  Snow,  had  been  taken  from  the  ranks  of  Company 
B;  Harvard  College,  1861;  he  enlisted  from  Andover  Semi 
nary.  James  Walker  of  Company  G  was  made  Color-sergeant. 
In  the  matter  of  clothing,  possibly  more  trouble  arose  over 
the  wholly  unfit  overcoats  given  out  than  from  any  other  one 
cause: 

These  were  of  a  very  poor  grade  of  shoddy,  and  black  in 
color.  Not  only  was  the  cloth  poor  in  quality,  it  was  so  very 
poor  it  would  not  hold  the  coloring  put  into  it.  The  soldier 
who  stood  guard  in  the  rain  with  his  overcoat  on,  soon  was  all 
of  one  color — his  clothing,  his  body  and  all.  Mutterings 
both  deep  and  loud  were  heard  throughout  the  regiment. 
Soon  after  the  orders  to  prepare  to  embark  came,  a  conspiracy 
was  entered  into  by  almost  every  man  to  get  rid  of  the  obnox 
ious  garments,  viz.:  On  our  way  down  State  Street  in  Boston, 
the  coats  were  to  be  thrown  into  a  heap  and  left,  the  boys 
preferring  to  go  to  the  front  without  overcoats  rather  than 
with  these.  Whether  the  authorities  heard  of  the  scheme 
or  not,  it  is  certain  that  the  day  before  embarking  the  black 
coats  wrere  called  in  by  the  Quartermaster  and  the  regiment 
went  away  without  overcoats  of  any  kind,  and  thus  continued 
until  some  time  after  reaching  Newbern,  when  garments  of 
regular  quality  and  color  were  issued. 

It  might  be  added  that  this  new  distribution  did  not  take 
place  until  a  new  series  of  complaints  arose,  not  only  from 
the  men  themselves,  but  the  folks  at  home  were  heard  from, 
as  witness  the  following  letter  written  to  the  Governor  from 
Medford,  Nov.  14:  "  WThy  don't  you  see  that  Drunken  Bill 


128        FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Schouler  sends  the  Fifth  Regiment  their  overcoats?"  (Signed) 
"  Smith." 

Though  the  men  assembled  in  the  Wenham  camp  knew  it 
not  then,  this  period  was  one  of  the  most  critical  in  the  entire 
war.  The  South  had  seceded  with  the  hope  and  expectation 
of  foreign  recognition;  the  North  was  in  constant  dread  of  such 
action.  France  was  ready  to  recognize  the  belligerent  rights 
of  the  Confederacy;  a  large  element  in  England  had  all  along 
been  anxious  that  the  Republic  should  perish;  Lord  Palmerston 
and  Lord  John  Russell  were  arranging  for  a  meeting  of  the 
British  Cabinet  to  act  in  accord  with  France,  this  to  be  on  the 
23d  day  of  October,  when  Wm.  E.  Gladstone,  another  member 
of  the  Cabinet,  so  far  forestalled  that  meeting  by  his  speech 
in  Newcastle,  which  was  received  by  the  audience  with  jeers, 
that  said  meeting  was  never  held,  and  the  recognition,  so 
dreaded  by  America,  was  averted.  In  his  remarks,  the  Sec 
retary  of  the  British  Treasury  said  Jefferson  Davis  "  had 
made  a  nation,"  and  that  the  independence  of  the  Confed 
eracy  and  the  consequent  dissolution  of  the  American  Union 
were  "  as  certain  as  any  event  yet  future  and  contingent  can 
be."  How  our  people  fumed  at  those  words,  and  how  many 
times  did  the  eloquent  Gladstone,  in  subsequent  years,  apolo 
gize  for  them!  It  was  in  such  days  that  these  men  enlisted 
and  staved  off  the  draft. 


DEPARTURE. 

Certain  dates  burn  themselves  deeply  into  the  mind;  they 
need  no  association  for  vivid  recollection,  and  to  men  of  the 
Fifth,  the  day  of  their  departure  from  Wenham  is  one.  For 
them  October  22d  is  a  point  in  the  calendar  forever  fixed.  Of 
course  the  time  had  been  foretold,  and  the  day  before  had 
been  one  of  many  visits  and  greetings  from  friends  and  rela 
tives.  At  8  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  22d,  the  knapsacks 
were  packed  and  the  men  were  in  line  ready  for  the  command 


OCT.  22,  '62.  DEPARTURE.  129 

to  march.  As  befitted  soldiers  of  a  Christian  nation,  there  was 
prayer  by  the  Chaplain  before  departure.  But  when  the  men 
were  ready,  the  cars  were  not  in  sight.  Were  they  ever  on 
time?  When  they  did  arrive  and  the  men  were  safely  on 
board,  it  was  11  o'clock.  The  records  of  the  Fifth  disclose 
that  twenty  men  forsook  the  regiment  this  day.  " Deserted 
at  Wenham  "  is  the  entrance  on  the  rolls,  as  reference  to  the 
Roster  will  show;  seventeen  of  them  were  from  the  Charles- 
town  companies,  A  and  D,  the  other  three  from  K,  Waltham 
and  Watertown.  Apparently  they  were  forerunners  of  that 
great  array  of  bounty-jumpers  who  during  the  ensuing  two 
years  and  more  were  to  bring  disgrace  upon  the  Union  armies. 
The}'  had  received  their  first  bounty  and  now,  under  new 
names,  wrere  ready  for  the  next,  and  still  other  enlistments. 
Next  in  interest  to  the  Annals  of  London's  Newgate,  would 
be  the  true  story  of  the  Northern  Bounty-jumper,  1862-'65. 

Boston  was  reached  at  12.30  p.m.,  and  line  was  formed  on 
Canal  Street,  whence  through  Hanover, Court,  State  and  Com 
mercial  streets  the  regiment  marched  without  any  attempt 
at  hurrah  or  other  demonstration,  to  Battery  Wharf,  where 
was  lying  the  steamer  "  Mississippi,"  which  was  to  be  the  con 
veyance  of  the  Fifth  to  the  theatre  of  war.  Near  by  also  was 
the  "Merrimac,"  another  transport  vessel,  and  three  regiments 
were  awaiting  transportation  on  these  boats.  The  Forty- 
fourth  Regiment  was  to  go  aboard  the  "MQirimac,"  and  the 
Third  Militia  was  to  be  divided  between  the  two.  As  the 
three  organizations  were  recruited  to  the  maximum,  and 
there  was  a  great  mass  of  camp  equipage,  aside  from  officers' 
horses  and  other  belongings,  there  was  no  great  excess  of  room 
on  shipboard.  Upon  the  wharf  was  a  vast  array  of  friends 
assembled  for  the  final  leave-taking,  the  seriousness  of  which 
only  those  can  appreciate  who  have  passed  through  it. 

The  "  Mississippi "  was  under  the  command  of  Captain  Rod 
ney  Baxter,  a  Hyannis  man,  an  experienced  and  competent 
seaman,  one  who  merited  and  received  the  respect  of  all  on 
board.  The  vessel,  however,  appeared  to  be  somewhat 


130  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V,   M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

unlucky,  or  some  of  her  passengers  were,  which  amounted  to 
about  the  same  thing.  Very  soon  after  the  Fifth  had  embarked, 
a  member  of  the  Third  Regiment,  in  coming  on  board,  fell 
between  the  ship  and  the  wharf,  upon  the  fender,  hurting  his 
head  badly,  and  at  first  it  was  thought  that  his  leg  was  broken, 
but  it  proved  otherwise,  and  on  landing  he  was  recovering 
from  his  injuries.  The  next  misfortune  terminated  more 
seriously.  Claude  Grenache,  Company  I,  a  French  Canadian 
by  birth,  was  a  professional  strong  man,  and  had  given  exhi 
bitions  in  public  with  traveling  companies.  He  had  frequently 
amused  his  comrades  with  his  feats  of  strength.  It  would 
appear  that  injudicious  potations  on  his  way  to  the  wharf 
rendered  him  unduly  livel}-  and  unsteady,  hence  when  on 
shipboard  he  essayed  to  climb  into  the  rigging  and  out  upon 
a  yard  to  display  his  agility  and  strength,  it  was  not  strange 
that  he  should  lose  his  balance  and  fall.  In  striking  the  deck, 
he  nearly  killed  another  man  upon  whom  he  fell,  losing  his 
own  life,  the  first  fatality  in  the  regiment  and,  withal,  so 
utterly  needless.  Nor  was  this  all,  for  in  passing  down  the 
Narrows,  a  small  schooner  was  encountered,  breaking  in  half 
the  fore  yard  of  the  transport  and  carrying  away  the  smaller 
vessel's  masts. 

AT  SEA. 

These  incidents  happened  after  the  steamer  had  left  the 
wharf,  in  the  edge  of  the  evening,  hauling  into  the  stream  and 
waiting  for  the  "Merrimac."  It  was  about  8  o'clock  p.m.  when 
the  anchor  was  weighed  and  the  grand  start  was  made.  The 
body  of  the  deceased  Grenache  was  on  board  and  it  was 
thought  best  that  it  should  be  returned  to  his  late  home, 
Marlboro.  Accordingly,  a  collection  was  taken  among 
the  men  whereby  sufficient  money  was  secured  to  pay  the 
transportation,  and  the  "  Mississippi "  put  into  Holmes'  Hole 
(Vineyard  Haven)  on  the  23d,  where  the  remains  were  landed, 
accompanied  by  Luther  H.  Farnsworth  of  Company  I,  who 


OCT.  23,  '62.  AT  SEA.  131 

was  to  go  home  with  them.  He  was  also  directed  to  find  and 
bring  back  with  him  a  missing  member  of  the  same  company, 
a  feat  which  he  accomplished,  and  the  wonder  is  that  he  had 
not  been  commissioned  to  bring  back  also  the  twenty  men 
who  had  eloped  from  Companies  A,  D  and  K.  While  the 
accommodations  within  the  " Mississippi"  were  not  quite  so 
pleasing  as  those  of  Camp  Lander,  the  records  concerning  the 
same  are  far  more  favorable  than  might  be  expected  of  men 
crowded  into  limited  space,  to  whom  the  trip  was  the  very 
first  experience  of  sea  traveling. 

One  story  is  told  that  might  have  happened  on  shore  as 
well  as  on  ship.  A  stew  for  dinner  was  in  progress,  whose  fate 
proved  the  truth  of  the  adage  that  many  cooks  spoil  the  broth. 
All  unwary  the  men  took  their  portions,  thinking  the  dish  a 
cheerful  variant  on  accustomed  prandial  menus.  As  one 
scribe  expresses  it,  "  I  broke  into  the  stew  quite  a  portion  of 
the  soft  bread,  issued  on  leaving  camp,  then  taking  one  mouth 
ful,  I  went  to  the  side  of  the  vessel  and  turned  the  whole  dish 
overboard.  Many,  however,  in  spite  of  its  saltiness,  man 
aged  to  eat  their  entire  ration."  It  seemed  that  cooks  and 
officers,  fearing  that  others  had  neglected  their  respective 
duties,  without  tasting  the  compound,  each  had  added  what 
seemed  the  proper  amount  of  salt,  the  result  being  the  equip 
ping  of  a  first-class  salt-boiling  vat.  The  effect  upon  the  men 
may  be  imagined.  The  supply  of  water  was  none  too  great 
at  the  best,  the  nearest  being  that  coming  from  the  condensed 
exhaust  steam,  and  it  was  warm  and  saline.  Fifteen  hundred 
men  were  suffering  from  extreme  thirst,  and  their  cry  for  water 
became  so  all-pervading  that  Captain  Baxter  receded  from  his 
first  determination  not  to  use  any  of  the  liquid  stored  in  the 
hold,  and  stationing  his  men,  had  the  satisfying  draughts 
passed  up  from  below  to  the  anguished  soldiers,  to  whom  the 
relief  was  like  that  which  the  miracle  brought  to  Hagar  and 
Ishmael  of  Bible  times. 

At  Holmes'  Hole  the  Boston  pilot  was  left  and,  after  wait 
ing  until  evening  for  the  "Merrimac,"  another  start  was  made, 


132        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  morning  of  the  24th  revealing  an  open  sea,  with  no  sign 
of  land,  the  first  unobstructed  view  that  the  majority  of  the 
soldiers  had  ever  had,  though  the  sister  transport,  "Merrimac," 
was  in  plain  sight  some  five  or  six  miles  ahead.  This  relative 
position  was  maintained  all  day,  but  when  the  morning  of  the 
25th  arrived,  we  were  in  the  lead.  During  these  days  the 
weather  was  delightful  and  none  of  the  troubles  of  the  Carolina 
coast  were  evident.  Active  men  suffer  when  cooped  up  on 
shipboard  and  they  must  do  something  to  unkink  their  legs, 
so  the  officers  danced  to  the  music  of  fife  and  drum,  a  sort  of 
military  quickstep,  and  those  who  couldn't  or  wouldn't,  were 
fined  six  cents  each,  for  the  benefit  of  the  musicians.  One 
active  fellow  sought  exercise  by  taking  a  hand  at  the  pumps 
while  the  crew  were  washing  up  the  decks.  Dancing  and  sing 
ing  helped  wile  away  the  time  until  10.30  p.m.,  when  sleepy 
men  sought  their  quarters.  As  the  vessel  proceeds  southward, 
it  becomes  desirable  to  spread  an  awning  over  the  decks  to 
shield  all  hands  from  the  sun's  rays.  Cape  Hatteras  was  made 
about  the  middle  of  the  afternoon,  but  the  steamer  continued 
to  move  forward  until  midnight,  when  she  was  "  hove-to  "  till 
morning,  when,  ahead  of  the  "Merrimac,"  she  ran  in,  and  off 
Beaufort  Harbor  signaled  for  a  pilot.  When  an  eighth  of  a 
mile  from  the  wharf  the  steamer  ran  aground,  to  the  great 
disgust  of  all  concerned,  especially  of  the  captain,  who  accused 
the  pilot  of  being  a  rebel,  in  which  opinion  many  of  the  men 
concurred,  and  for  a  time  it  seemed  dangerous  for  the  man, 
but  when  the  excitement  was  at  its  highest  pitch,  there  came 
over  the  waters,  from  near-by  Beaufort,  the  sound  of  church- 
going  bells.  Evidently  the  fact  that  the  day  was  Sunday  had 
not  occurred  to  many  of  the  men  until  that  moment,  but  the 
thought  of  church  and  worship  was  sufficient  to  still  angry 
passions  and  to  bring  men  back  to  their  senses.  Meanwhile 
the  "Merrimac,"  more  fortunate,  was  disembarking  her  men  in 
plain  sight,  a  most  aggravating  spectacle. 

True  to  the  traditions  of  the  coast,  it  was  fated  that  the 
regiment  should  not  land  without  some  taste  of  the   weather 


OCT.  27,  '62. 


AT  SEA. 


133 


said  to  be  characteristic  of  the  vicinity  of  Hatteras.  Saturday 
night  it  began  to  rain  and  at  intervals  the  same  fell  during 
Sunday;  at  the  same  time  there  was  blowing  a  very  cold  wind; 
so  that  first  impressions  of  the  "Sunny  South"  were  just  a  bit 
coolish.  It  was  nearly  noon  of  Monday,  October  27th,  that 


134  FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  landing  was  finally  effected,  and  the  Fifth  Regiment  set 
foot  on  North  Carolina  soil,  the  -place  being  Morehead  City, 
opposite  Beaufort,  both  places  being  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Newport  River.  The  city,  so  called,  was  a  characteristic 
southern  place  of  only  a  few  houses,  but  it  was  the  terminus 
of  a  railroad  extending  up  to  Newbern.  This  was  the  road 
over  which  the  Forty-fourth  Regiment  had  ridden  the  day 
before,  and  on  whose  open  platform  cars  the  Fifth  and  Third 
Regiments  were  to  proceed  to  Newbern.  One  of  those  thus 
getting  his  first  impressions  of  the  Old  North  State  writes: 
"  The  country  through  which  we  passed — some  thirty-six 
miles — seemed  almost  entirely  uninhabited.  Occasionally 
we  passed  the  pickets  and  encampments  of  our  troops,  with 
here  and  there  negro  huts.  The  rest  of  our  way  was  through 
woods,  the  greater  part  of  which  is  pitch-pine." 


NEWBERN. 

Newbern,  the  destination  of  the  regiment,  had  been  in  the 
possession  of  the  Union  forces  since  the  14th  day  of  the  pre 
ceding  March,  when  after  the  battle  of  Newbern,  fought  a 
few  miles  to  the  southward,  and  the  other  side  of  the  Trent 
River,  the  place  with  all  its  belongings  fell  into  the  hands  of 
Burnside  and  his  men,  this  being  the  second  blow  struck  in 
this  section  by  the  so-called  Burnside  Expedition,  the  first 
having  been  that  at  Roanoke  Island  in  the  preceding  Feb 
ruary.  Distant  by  rail  from  Beaufort  and  Morehead  City 
from  thirty-six  to  forty  miles,  it  was  the  capital  of  Craven 
County  and,  before  the  war,  had  ranked  as  the  second  seaport 
in  the  State.  Near  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  century, 
it  was  founded  by  a  colony  of  Swiss,  under  the  lead  of  the 
Baron  de  Graffenreid,  the  location  being  in  strong  contrast 
with  the  mountainous  country  whence  they  had  come,  yet 
they  gave  to  the  new  settlement  the  name  of  their  own  ele 
vated  capital  city,  hence  the  words,  "  New  Berne,"  or  as 


OCT.  27,  '62.  NEWBEKN.  135 

usually  given,  Newbern.  The  river  Trent  formed  its  southern 
boundary  and  the  Neuse  was  on  the  east. 

Had  there  been  an  efficient  guide  on  the  train  which  bore 
the  regiment  from  its  landing  to  this  place,  he  might  have 
pointed  out  the  scene  of  the  engagement,  between  the  Con 
federate  and  Union  forces,  on  that  14th  day  of  March,  when, 
for  the  second  time,  Burnside  and  his  men  were  able  to  send 
a  thrill  of  rejoicing  through  the  loyal  North  on  account  of  an 
unqualified  Federal  victory.  In  the  interval,  Burnside  had 
been  ordered  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  taking  with  him 
a  considerable  part  of  his  original  force,  leaving  in  command 
General  John  G.  Foster,  an  officer  in  universal  esteem  among 
his  men,  but  considerably  crippled  for  aggressive  work  on 
account  of  the  depletion  of  the  army  through  the  withdrawal 
of  regiments.  Of  Massachusetts  troops  there  were  already 
at  Newbern  or  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  the  Seventeenth, 
Twenty-third,  Twenty-fourth,  Twenty-fifth  and  Twenty- 
seventh  regiments,  all  three  years'  bodies,  and,  of  nine  months' 
organizations,  in  addition  to  the  Fifth,  there  were  in  the 
department  or  on  their  way,  the  Third  and  Eighth  Militia, 
the  Forty-third,  Forty-fourth,  Forty-fifth,  Forty-sixth,  and 
Fifty-first  Volunteers,  the  expectation  of  the  Government 
being  that  these  organizations  would  make  good  the  with 
drawal  of  troops  in  the  preceding  months. 

However  important  Newbern  may  have  been  to  the  Union 
cause  as  a  strategic  point  and  base  of  operation,  to  these 
men,  fresh  from  trim  and  snug  New  England,  it  had  anything 
but  an  imposing  look.  Said  one  careful  observer: 


In  houses  and  general  appearance,  Newbern  does  not  com 
pare  favorably  with  any  place  of  like  size  in  our  part  of  the 
world.  We  are  encamped  just  at  the  edge  of  the  city;  the 
Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts  is  but  a  short  distance  from  us; 
a  few  rods  to  the  right  is  Fort  Rowan,  and  on  our  left  is  Fort 
Totten.  We  live  in  tents  (put  up  for  us  by  the  Twenty-third 
Massachusetts)  about  sixteen  feet  in  diameter  (Sibley's), 
nineteen  men  being  in  ours,  all  from  the  same  locality.  Each 


136        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

tent  has  a  camp-stove  in  its  centre,  which  is  very  convenient 
some  of  these  cold  nights.  Should  we  stay  here  long  we  shall 
probably  go  into  barracks.  Most  of  the  white  inhabitants 
have  left  the  city,  and  with  them  went  the  majority  of  able- 
bodied  black  men.  The  whites  who  remained  were  obliged  to 
take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  There  are  lots  of  "  contrabands  " 
around;  from  sunrise  to  sunset  they  are  in  the  camp  with 
almost  everything  in  the  eating  line :  gingerbread,  pies,  oysters, 
plenty  of  cookies,  sweet  potatoes,  fried  fish,  etc.  •  They  sell 
a  deal  of  this  stuff  to  the  soldiers,  because  our  cooking  appli 
ances  have  not  yet  arrived,  and  the  rations  we  brought  with 
us  are  about  all  eaten  up,  with  the  exception  of  the  hard  tack, 
hence  their  stuff  takes  pretty  well  with  us.  We  can  get  a 
dinner  at  some  of  their  houses  with  all  we  wish  to  eat  and 
drink,  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  cents.  You  ought  to  hear 
them  tell  about  "  Massa  "  running  one  way  and  they  the  other. 
Some  say  they  didn't  wait  for  "  Massa  "  to  run  and  take  them 
with  him,  they  "  skedaddled  "  first.  They  offer  to  wash  our 
clothes  for  five  cents  an  article.  All  of  the  ground  about  us  is 
very  low;  on  one  side  is  a  small  cypress  swamp.  The  days  are 
very  warm  and  the  nights  cool;  we  are  without  overcoats 
and,  in  these  cold  spells,  we  are  disposed  to  think  even  the 
miserable  ones  we  turned  in  would  be  better  than  none. 

Two  days  were  devoted  to  adjusting  themselves  to  their 
new  surroundings.  In  the  interval  the  guns  for  the  regiment 
had  been  distributed,  they  having  been  packed  for  transpor 
tation,  it  being  thought  that  they  could  be  carried  this  way 
better  than  in  the  hands  of  the  men.  On  inspection,  the 
soldiers  were  delighted  to  find  that  they  were  equipped  with 
Springfield  rifles,  then  considered  the  best  in  the  service.  On 
the  29th,  at  dress-parade,  orders  were  read  to  the  effect  that 
the  regiment  would  leave  camp  on  the  following  morning  in 
light  marching  order.  A  considerable  part  of  the  night  was 
given  to  preparing  rations  and  making  ready  for  the  next 
step  in  army  life.  The  movement  in  which  the  Fifth  is  to 
bear  its  part  is  known-  in  the  story  of  the  war  as  the 


OCT.  29,  '62.  TARBORO  MARCH.  137 

TARBORO  MARCH. 

Whatever  the  leaders  knew,  nothing  was  revealed  to  the 
enlisted  men  and  the  lower  commissioned  officers.  The  night 
of  October  29th  and  30th  was  as  broken  as  any  could  be  and 
yet  the  men  be  supposedly  resting  in  camp.  To  begin  with, 
three  days'  rations  were  to  be  carried.  They  had  not  even 
arrived,  to  say  nothing  of  cooking  them.  This  is  the  way  the 
hours  seemed  to  pass  to  one  incipient  soldier:  "  Of  course  we 
had  very  little  sleep  that  night;  we  would  turn  in  for  perhaps 
an  hour,  when  the  order  would  come,  '  Turn  out  and  get  your 
canteens;  '  after  waiting  a  while  we  got  them  and  went  back 
to  our  tents  to  be  roused,  soon  after,  with  '  Turn  out  to  get 
your  guns.'  After  having  this  essential  part  of  a  soldier's 
outfit  handed  us,  we  went  back  only  to  be  called  out  again, 
'  To  get  your  ammunition/  for  every  man  had  forty  rounds 
before  starting.  Then  it  was  to  turn  out  and  to  turn  in  for 
rations  until  the  night  was  whittled  away."  While  all  the 
soldiers  may  have  had  a  general  idea  of  the  management  of  a 
musket,  the  actual  ignorance  of  many  was  almost  pathetic, 
considering  how  near  they  were  to  the  use  of  shooting-irons 
where  life  and  death  were  involved.  Knapsacks,  canteens  and 
haversacks  had  obvious  uses,  the  loading  end  of  their  muskets 
was  recognized,  but  scores  of  them  halted  in  sheer  amazement 
over  the  manner  of  applying  a  gun-strap.  Fortunately  there 
was  sufficient  leaven  of  experience  in  each  company  soon  to 
enlighten  the  entire  mass.  Regimental  line  was  formed  at 
about  4  o'clock  a.m.,  and  a  start  was  made  for  some  unknown 
destination  soon  after.  On  reaching  the  wharves  at  the 
river's  bank,  the  men  were  embarked  on  certain  gunboats, 
four  companies  going  on  the  transport-schooner ' '  Scout. ' '  Start 
ing  soon  after  daylight,  all  had  a  fine  opportunity  to  observe 
the  obstructions  that  the  Confederates  had  placed  in  the 
Neuse  to  prevent  the  advance  of  Burnside's  fleet  in  the  pre 
ceding  March.  Consisting  principally  of  old  sunken  vessels, 
enough  of  them  had  been  cleared  away  to  afford  a  passage 


138         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

for  such  craft  as  had  to  come  and  go.  Also  some  of  the  forti 
fications  erected  by  the  enemy  were  in  sight,  including  those 
silenced  in  the  battle  of  March  14,  though  intervening  woods 
obscured  the  view. 

During  the  day  the  report  gained  circulation  that  the  des 
tination  of  the  voyage  was  Washington,  N.  C.,  which  proved 
to  be  true.  Though  on  shipboard,  at  least  some  of  the  com 
panies  were  drilled  in  the  manual  of  arms  for  the  first  time. 
During  this  trip,  the  steward  of  the  "Scout"  signalized  his  acquisi 
tive  faculty  by  making  pies  which  he  offered  to  the  soldiers  at 
sixty  cents  apiece.  Though  from  the  so-called  pie-belt  of  the 
country  and  naturally  fond  of  pastry,  one  of  the  boys  writes, 
11  I  wasn't  hungry  enough  to  buy  at  that  price."  The  route 
was  down  the  Neuse  to  Pamlico  Sound,  whence  in  due  time 
a  turn  was  made  into  the  Pamlico  River,  up  which  the  fleet 
proceeded,  though  it  came  to  anchor  some  distance  below 
Washington,  the  men  finding  very  good  accommodations  on 
shipboard.  After  the  grounding  of  at  least  one  of  the  vessels, 
the  landing  was  finally  effected  on  the  last  day  of  the  month, 
and  quarters  for  some  of  the  companies  were  found  in  all  sorts 
of  buildings,  not  over  clean,  but  even  these  would  be  thought 
quite  attractive  before  the  week  was  done. 

Very  often  in  discussing  this  part  of  the  country,  the  place 
where  the  landing  was  effected  is  referred  to  as  "  Little  " 
Washington,  but  incorrectly,  the  name  of  the  Father  of  his 
Country  having  no  modification,  the  adjective  having  been 
applied  probably  to  distinguish  it  from  the  capital  of  the 
nation.  Situated  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Tar  River,  a  few 
miles  above  its  confluence  with  the  larger  Pamlico,  the  place 
is  a  very  interesting  southern  village,  not  so  large  as  Newbern, 
yet  it  was  known  as  a  city.  This  place  also  had  been  early 
taken  by  Burnside's  forces,  and  it  had  been  more  or  less 
threatened  by  the  enemy  nearly  all  of  the  intervening  time. 
Indeed  the  march  of  our  regiments  on  the  day  of  landing  was 
obstructed  by  intervening  barricades  in  the  shape  of  chevaux 
de  frise,  these  being  necessary  on  account  of  the  repeated  raids 


OCT.  29,  '62. 


TARBORO  MARCH. 


139 


of  the  Confederate  cavalry.  While  there  were  a  number  of 
well  laid  out  places,  one  was  particularly  so,  this  being  the 
estate  of  Mr.  Jas.  R.  Grist,  who  claimed  to  be  a  Union  man, 
yet  his  loyalty  was  thought  to  be  of  that  selfish  kind  that 
could  be  easily  turned  rebelward  if  the  fortunes  of  war  appeared 
to  lean  in  that  direction.  In  the  winter  following  Fredericks- 
burg,  he  solicited  General  Potter,  then  in  command  at  Wash 
ington,  for  the  privilege  of  going  with  the  Confederacy,  and  he 
betook  himself  with  his  family  into  the  heart  of  rebeldom,  his 
mansion  being  taken  for  a  hospital.  Later  still,  when  Vicks- 
burg,  Gettysburg  and  Port  Hudson  plainly  shadowed  forth 
the  end  of  Rebellion,  he  asked  the  privilege  of  coming  back  to 
his  own,  but  he  was  refused,  being  told  that  his  residence  was 
already  serving  a  very  useful  purpose.  A  part  of  the  regiment 
bivouacked  on  his  estate,  one  observer  chronicling  the  largest 
natural  arbor  (Arbor  vitae)  he  had  ever  seen,  extending  from 


RESIDENCE  OF  JAMES  R.  GRIST, 
WASHINGTON,    N.    C. 


140        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  main  entrance  to  the  house  a  number  of  rods.  The  inter 
ested  loyalty  of  the  proprietor  was  revenue-making  in  a  pecu 
liar  manner,  in  that  he  was  taking  in  large  amounts  of  Con 
federate  currency  at  a  great  discount,  and  then,  through  some 
sort  of  connivance,  he  was  sending  the  same  through  the  lines 
and  buying  cotton,  paying  tor  it  in  the  depreciated  scrip  at 
face  value.  His  purchase  he  was  able  to  sell  at  immense 
profits.  The  house  showed  marks  of  the  siege  in  the  preced 
ing  spring. 

It  was  here  that  the  brigade  relation  of  the  regiment  was 
first  defined,  it  being  a  part  of  the  Third  Brigade,  First  Divi 
sion,  Department  of  North  Carolina.  The  regiments  associa 
ted  with  it  were  the  Third,  Twenty-seventh  and  Forty-sixth 
Massachusetts,  along  with  the  Ninth  New  Jersey,  the  brigade 
being  under  the  command  of  Colonel  Horace  C.  Lee  of  the 
Twenty-seventh,  an  officer  uniformly  meriting  and  receiving 
the  highest  degree  of  respect  from  all  of  his  followers.  A 
thorough  tactician,  there  was  no  time  when  he  failed  to 
measure  up  to  the  highest  standard  of  an  officer  in  his  posi 
tion,  and  the  regiment  considered  itself  fortunate  to  be  led  by 
him  through  its  entire  term  of  service.  Also  it  was  a  pleasing 
reflection  that  the  men  were  associated  with  so  large  a  number 
of  fellow  Massachusetts  soldiers.  There  was  a  halt  in  Wash 
ington,  all  of  the  31st  of  October  and  November  1st,  on  account 
of  the  failure  of  the  force  that  had  gone  overland  to  arrive. 
Under  the  command  of  Colonel  T.  J:  C.  Amory,  commanding 
the  First  Brigade,  portions  of  the  Seventeenth  and  Twenty- 
third  Massachusetts,  with  cavalry  and  artillery,  accompanied 
by  a  large  wagon  train,  had  left  Newbern,  early  in  the  morn 
ing  of  the  30th,  expecting  to  reach  Washington,  at  the  latest, 
by  the  evening  of  the  31st.  After  a  day's  march,  Swift's 
Creek  was  reached  at  sundown  of  the  first  day,  where  it  was 
found  that  the  enemy  had  destroyed  the  bridge,  As  no  effort 
was  made  to  rebuild  the  bridge  until  the  following  day,  Wash 
ington  was  not  gained  until  dark,  Nov.  1st,  fully  a  day  late. 

The   troops   composing   the   expedition   were    as     follows: 


Nov.  2,  '62.  TARBORO  MARCH.  141 

First  Brigade,  Colonel  Amory,  portions  of  the  Seventeenth, 
Twenty-third  and  Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts,  with  four  guns 
of  the  Third  N.  Y.  Artillery;  Second  Brigade,  Colonel  Thos. 
G.  Stevenson  in  command,  parts  of  the  Twenty-fourth  and 
Forty-fourth  Massachusetts  (entire),  Fifth  Rhode  Island, 
and  Tenth  Connecticut,  with  Belger's  Battery,  Battery  F, 
Rhode  Island  Light  Artillery,  six  guns;  Third  Brigade,  Colonel 
H.  C.  Lee,  parts  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts, 
Ninth  New  Jersey,  ten  companies  of  the  Fifth  Massachusetts 
and  sixteen  guns  of  the  Third  N.  Y.  Artillery,  —  an  aggregate 
of  about  5000  men  with  twenty-six  pieces  of  artillery.  The 
grand  advance  began  at  daybreak,  Sunday,  the  2d  of  No 
vember,  Stevenson's  brigade  leading.  Though  the  commands 
were  to  proceed  in  light  marching  order,  the  load  of  three  days' 
rations,  cooked  in  Washington,  with  gun  and  its  belongings, 
haversack,  canteen  and  blanket,  one  of  the  boys  thought  the 
knapsack  would  not  have  added  very  much  to  the  weight  of 
the  outfit.  Although  the  Fifth  was  credited  with  having  full 
ranks,  there  was  really  a  considerable  shortage,  twenty-five 
men  from  each  company  having  been  left  at  Newbern  and  an 
entire  company  at  Washington,  for  guard  and  other  necessary 
duty. 

The  first  indications  of  the  presence  of  the  enemy  were  felt 
at  about  9  a.m.,  when  their  pickets  were  driven  in,  their  fire, 
as  they  retired,  wounding  two  of  the  cavalry  horses. 
With  occasional  halts  of  a  few  minutes  each,  the  march  pro 
ceeded  until  along  in  the  afternoon,  when  there  was  a  halt  of 
an  hour.  This  being  the  first  clay's  real  marching,  its  effects 
were  quite  severe.  The  next  move  continued  until  sundown, 
when  artillery  and  musketry  firing  were  heard,  half  or  three- 
quarters  of  a  mile  ahead.  Here  there  was  a  halt,  with  momen 
tary  expectations  of  being  ordered  forward,  but  before  this 
came,  the  firing  had  nearly  ceased.  When  the  word  was  given 
the  advance  was  for  only  a  short  distance;  the  men,  some  of 
them,  by  this  time,  were  so  tired  that  they  lay  down  on  the 
damp,  cold  ground  and  went  to  sleep  at  once.  The  next  start 


142        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

carried  the  regiment  to  the  banks  of  a  wide  stream,  whose 
waters  were  fully  waist  deep.  It  was  Little  Creek,  the  scene 
of  the  fight.  Of  this  portion  of  the  day's  march  E.  A.  Perry 
(I)  writes: 

Before  many  hours,  we  struck  a  swamp  whose  waters 
were  the  color  of  strong  coffee.  (Apparently  the  borders  of 
the  creek.)  There  were  two  ways  of  crossing,  viz.,  a  foot 
path  along  the  side  of  the  road,  consisting  of  a  series  of  single 
logs,  laid  lengthways,  their  ends  being  on  the  tops  of  stumps, 
these  same  logs  being  slightly  flattened  on  one  side.  Thus 
a  single  file  was  possible  through  the  swamp,  but  more  than 
one  man  fell  off  as  he  tried  this  Blondin  act,  all  accoutred 
with  his  equipment.  The  road  itself  was  corduroyed,  but  the 
logs  were  all  under  water;  the  most  of  the  men  preferred  the 
middle  way.  ...  It  was  on  this  inarch  that  we  first 
loaded  our  guns.  It  would  naturally  be  supposed  that  every 
one  would  know  which  end  of  the  cartridge  went  in  first,  but 
there  were  many  who  did  not,  much  to  the  amusement  of 
their  wiser  comrades. 

Darius  Baker  (E)  writes  of  this  same  scene: 

The  order  came  that  we  must  ford  the  stream,  and 
we  began  to  get  ready  for  it.  We  took  off  our  cartridge  boxes 
and  hung  them  on  our  bayonets,  and  then  some  of  the  men 
took  off  all  their  clothing  except  their  shirts,  others  their 
pants  only,  others  their  drawers  alone,  and  still  others  with 
boots  and  stockings  taken  off  and  pants  rolled  up,  were 
standing  around.  We  must  have  made  a  laughable  appear 
ance,  but  we  didn't  think  so  then.  We  had  all  prepared  our 
selves,  when  we  found  we  could  cross  without  getting  wet  by 
going  single  file.  Then  'twas  to  put  on  our  clothes  again  and 
cross  the  creek. 

As  to  the  engagement  itself,  it  was  not  a  serious  one,  only  a 
slight  hold-up  of  the  advance,  consisting  of  the  Twenty-fourth 
and  Forty-fourth  Massachusetts,  the  enemy  having  thrown 
up  small  earthworks  and  having  some  artillery  with  them. 
The  Confederates  here  were  of  the  Twenty-sixth  North  Caro 
lina,  with  a  section  of  Moore's  battery,  the  place  being  known 


Nov.  2,  62.  TARBORO  MARCH.  143 

as  Old  Ford,  four  miles  from  Williamston.  It  did  not  take  the 
Massachusetts  and  New  Jersey  men  with  the  Marine  Artillery 
and  the  Rhode  Island  Battery  (Belger's)  a  great  while  to 
clear  them  out,  and  to  send  them  in  precipitous  retreat  to 
Rawles'  Mills,  from  which  they  were  again  driven.  The 
entire  Union  loss  in  the  two  engagements  was  three  killed  and 
thirteen  wounded;  of  the  enemy  there  were  reported  ten 
killed  and  twenty-nine  wounded.  While  all  this  was  happen 
ing  up  in  front,  the  men  away  back  in  the  rear  had  nothing  to 
do  but  wait  and  listen.  Even  then  some  of  them  could  not 
keep  awake,  and  when  the  enemy  gave  way  and  the  victorious 
Yankees  swept  after  them  with  a  cheer,  the  same  was  taken 
up  all  along  the  intervening  line,  reaching  at  last  Company  I 
of  the  Fifth,  awaking  one  tired  sleeper,  who  sprang  to  "  atten 
tion  "  with  the  shout,  "  I'll  get  one  shot  at  the  Rebs  before 
I  die."  After  a  few  more  halts  and  repeated  changes  of  posi 
tion,  camp  was  finally  pitched  in  and  around  the  deserted 
earthworks.  The  day's  march  covered  eighteen  miles,  our 
Sabbath  day's  journey. 

Monday,  the  3d,  the  march  was  resumed,  with  the  Third 
Brigade  in  advance,  the  Fifth  holding  the  left  of  the  line. 
Williamston  wras  entered  at  noon  or  thereabout,  wTith  not  a 
human  being,  black  or  white,  in  sight,  though  the  probabilities 
were  that  the  inhabitants  had  deserted  their  homes,  not  so 
much  on  account  of  the  approach  of  the  army  as  through  fear 
of  a  bombardment  by  the  Union  fleet,  whose  five  gunboats 
were  lying  portentously  near  in  the  Roanoke  River.  Five 
thousand  hungry  men  in  a  deserted  town!  Here  were  food  and 
drink  and  here  also  were  the  boys  who  could  make  way  with 
them.  Did  they?*  Let  one  of  them  reply:  "  While  here,  the 


*An  interesting  sequel  to  this  brief  occupation  of  Williamston  appeared 
forty-eight  years  later,  when,  in  December,  1910,  S.  S.  Pierce  Co.  of  Bos 
ton,  in  their  "  Epicure,"  printed  a  picture  of  a  bottle  of  Guinness  Stout, 
with  the  following  story:  "  The  bottle,  which  is  represented  by  the  accom 
panying  illustration,  was  confiscated  by  Union  troops  on  Novembers,  1862, 
at  Williamston,  North  Carolina.  It  fell  to  the  lot  of  Capt.  W.  T.  Grammer 
of  Woburn,  Massachusetts.  Upon  his  death,  Capt.  Edwin  F.  Wyer  was 


144         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

men  foraged  ever}- thing  they  could  lay  hands  upon :  pigs,  fowl, 
sweet  potatoes,  honey,  molasses,  apples,  etc.  It  was  new 
business  for  us,  but  we  soon  got  used  to  it."  In  the  afternoon 
the  advance  was  resumed,  the  direction  being  towards  the 
west,  and  at  dark  camp  was  pitched  near  Hamilton. 

The  next  morning,  that  of  the  4th,  the  start  was  made 
towards  Hamilton,  though  there  was  delay  occasioned  by  the 
burning  of  a  bridge,  which  had  to  be  rebuilt,  so  that  the  town 
was  not  reached  until  afternoon.  On  the  way,  Rainbow  Bluff 
was  passed,  where  the  enemy  had  erected  a  fort  and  pierced 
the  same  for  five  guns,  with  a  line  of  earthworks  extending 
half  a  mile  into  the  woods  and  crossing  the  Hamilton  road. 
But  there  was  no  effort  made  to  hold  them,  the  Confederates 
withdrawing  on  our  approach,  so  that  when  the  Union  gun 
boats  steamed  up,  they  found  the  flag  of  our  Union  there 
before  them,  along  with  a  garrison  ready  to  receive  them  with 
the  loudest  of  cheers.  The  bluff,  fifty  feet  high,  was  on  the 
south  bank  of  the  Roanoke,  and  several  times  had  prevented 
the  further  advance  of  the  gunboats.  Hamilton,  too,  was  a 
deserted  place,  and  similar  scenes  to  those  of  the  day  before 
took  place,  "  our  only  difficulty  being  the  shortness  of  our 
stop.  The  pigs  would  be  skinned  and  put,  warm  as  they  were, 
on  the  coals;  the  fowls,  with  a  stick  run  through  them,  placed 
in  the  flames.  The  streets  and  roads  were  strewed  with  furni 
ture  and  apparel  dropped  in  the  hasty  flight  of  the  inhabitants. 
Our  camp  was  pitched  about  three  miles  beyond  Hamilton." 
Located  so  that  the  entire  encampment  could  be  seen  at  a 
glance,  the  scene  was  magnificently  beautiful. 

made  custodian  of  the  relic,  and  he  presented  it  to  the  Ancient  and  Honor 
able  Artillery  Company  of  Boston,  and  is  now  seen  in  its  museum.  It  was 
bottled  by  Messrs.  M.  B.  Foster  &  Sons,  from  whom  the  S.  S.  Pierce  Co. 
have  drawn  their  supplies  of  Guinness  Stout  and  Bass  ale  for  half  a  cen 
tury."  The  inscription  on  the  bottle  is  as  follows:  "  Reminiscence  of  Wil- 
liamston,  the  only  bottle  left  of  a  lot  confiscated  by  Capt.  W.  T.  Grammer, 
Fifth  Massachusetts.  Here's  pretty  good  luck."  The  wonder  comes,  invol 
untarily,  whether  in  its  present  keeping  the  bottle  will  survive  another 
half  century. 


Nov.  5,  '62.  TARBORO  MARCH.  145 

Though  the  camping-place  was  a  cornfield,  the  stalks  that 
the  men  wished  to  lie  upon  were  a  quarter  of  a  mile  away,  but 
the  suggestion  being  made  that  they  would  soften  the  hard 
ground  considerably,  there  was  a  general  rush  for  the  bundles, 
that  served  an  excellent  purpose  for  one  night  at  least.  A 
Company  I  man  had  not  had  enough  of  foraging  on  his 
way  through  Hamilton,  but  must  needs  try  again  during  this 
night  and,  discovering  a  tree  with  live  fruit  upon  it,  viz.,  half 
a  dozen  turkeys,  he  "  shook  them  off  "  and  brought  them  into 
camp.  There,  in  the  ingenious  manner  that  only  necessity  can 
invent,  he  had  them  cooked  as  a  toothsome  breakfast  for  his 
comrades.  Here,  too,  the  newly  enlisted  Yankee  boys  learned 
the  peculiarities  of  the  beautiful  yellow  persimmon;  how 
delicious  when  ripe,  howhorribly  puckery  when  green!  Wednes 
day,  the  5th,  beheld  the  line  still  advancing  towards  Tar- 
boro,  the  direction  being  a  little  south  of  west,  halting  for  the 
night  about  nine  or  ten  miles  from  the  above-named  town. 
The  march  was  long  and  hard  and  there  was  a  deal  of  strag 
gling,  some  companies  having  only  a  small  proportion  of  the 
members  at  camp-pitching,  but  all  came  in  finally.  By  orders, 
there  were  no  fires,  and  a  camp  without  a  fire  is  dreary  enough; 
besides,  the  night  proved  to  be  dark  and  stormy,  the  rain  and 
snow  filling  the  depression  between  the  corn  rows  so  that  all 
got  thoroughly  wet.  Morning  light  revealed  one  of  the  most 
interesting  sights  of  the  entire  expedition,  for  the  snow,  in 
falling  on  the  rubber  blanketed  men  and  the  intervening 
ground,  had  covered  all  "  with  a  silence  deep  and  white," 
and  the  outlook  was  what  a  great  fold  might  be,  filled  with  a 
host  of  elongated  sheep.  It  is  safe  to  say,  however,  it  was  not 
the  beauty  of  the  scene  that  impressed  Mike  Skerry  of  Com 
pany  E,  when  he  shook  the  fleecy  stuff  from  his  form  on  rising, 
for  he  was  hoard  to  ejaculate  in  tones  not  in  the  least  appre 
ciative,  "  And  this  is  the  Sunny  South,  is  it;  the  land  of  cotton, 
pineapples  and  oranges?  Here  we  are,  knee-deep  in  the  snow. 
Divil  a  bit  have  I  seen  of  their  Sunny  South!  By  my  soul,  it's 
Greenland,  I  believe  it  is." 

10 


146        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

THE  RETURN. 

The  end  of  the  advance  was  reached,  Wednesday,  within 
a  comparatively  short  distance  of  Tarboro.  The  original  object 
of  the  expedition  was  the  destruction  of  rebel  gunboats,  said 
to  be  building  at  Hamilton,  but  the  report  proved  to  be  incor 
rect,  as  investigation  showed  when  the  town  was  occupied. 
However,  General  Foster  had  heard  that  a  force  of  3000  Con 
federates  was  encamped  near  Tarboro,  and  to  capture  them  was 
the  reason  for  the  trip  beyond  Hamilton.  We  were  so  near  the 
tar-named  place  that  the  sound  of  trains  could  be  distinctly 
heard  during  the  night,  supposedly  bringing  reinforcements  to 
the  aid  of  the  enemy.  It  was  at  this  time  that  General  Foster 
called  a  council  of  his  field  officers,  and  the  question  of  advance 
or  retreat  was  considered.  The  lateness  of  the  season,  the  pros 
pects  of  a  severe  storm  and  the  apparent  certainty  of  rebel 
reinforcements  induced  a  vote,  with  only  three  dissenting,  that 
the  advance  had  gone  far  enough.  So  far  as  the  reinforce 
ments  were  concerned,  it  appeared  later  from  captured  rebels 
that  the  railroad  commotion  was  incident  to  the  effort  of  Con 
federates  to  get  away  rather  than  to  approach.  So,  then, 
Thursday,  the  6th,  saw  the  countermarch,  and  the  beginning 
of  the  return.  Once  more  the  Third  Brigade  was  in  the  rear, 
and  a  hard  place  some  of  the  boys  in  the  Fifth  found  it  to  be. 
Let  one  of  them  tell  his  own  story: 

The  rain  of  the  day  made  the  roads  very  bad.  It  was 
the  only  day  I  did  not  keep  up  with  the  company.  The  last 
eight  miles  were  marched  without  a  halt,  and  at  very  quick 
time.  I  made  up  my  mind  that  I  could  get  along  easier  by 
halting  occasionally,  and  did  so,  coming  in  some  distance  in 
the  rear  and,  for  that  matter,  nearly  half  the  regiment  strag 
gled.  We  made  fourteen  miles  during  the  day,  and  when  we 
got  to  Hamilton  we  missed  the  houses,  that  were  burned 
when  we  were  going  the  other  way,  though  we  managed  to 
find  shelter.  During  the  night  it  grew  colder  and  snow  fell 
before  morning,  keeping  it  up  at  intervals  throughout  the 
day.  Some  of  the  men  managed  to  get  on  the  gunboats  here, 
so  that  our  company  fell  off  considerably. 


Nov.  7,  '62  THE  RETURN.  147 

It  was  on  this  leaving  Hamilton,  on  the  return,  that  occurred 
an  incident  characteristic  of  the  time  and  men.  There  were 
very  strict  orders  against  foraging,  yet  officers,  like  justice, 
were  sometimes  blind.  One  of  them  tells  the  story  that  on  the 
march  he  saw  a  heifer  in  a  field  by  the  roadside,  and  soon  after 
one  of  the  enlisted  men  of  his  company  came  up  and  wanted  to 
borrow  his  knife,  he  being  known  to  carry  a  long-bladed  one. 
"  What  do  you  want  it  for?"  was  a  natural  question  for  him 
to  ask,  but  the  reply  was  not  exactly  enlightening,  "  Oh, 
nothing  much,  but  I'll  not  hurt  it."  The  man  got  the  knife 
and  disappeared;  the  officer,  fearing  the  fate  of  Lot's  wife 
never  looked  back.  Soon  there  came  the  sound  of  a  musket, 
and  still  no  looking  about  by  the  careful  lieutenant;  but  long 
before  the  camp  was  reached  his  knife  was  returned  and  with 
it  a  fine  piece  of  beef,  and  no  questions  were  asked.  That 
officer  could  have  testified  conscientiously  that  on  that  day 
he  had  seen  no  case  of  foraging. 

There  were  men  who,  with  indomitable  pluck  and  will, 
found  food  and  comfort  even  in  deserted  Williamston,  and 
the  use  they  made  of  sweet  potatoes  and  fresh  pork  indicated 
anything  rather  than  discouragement.  When  a  darkey  was 
given  a  dime  for  his  kindness  in  lending  his  iron  kettle,  he 
exclaimed  with  joy  and  gladness,  "  Golly,  dat's  silber!  Rats 
can't  clean  dat  up."  Friday,  the  7th,  the  retreat  was  continued 
to  Williamston,  where  there  was  a  longer  halt  than  usual  for 
recuperation.  The  shiretown  of  Martin  County,  its  jail  was 
burned  during  the  retreat,  but  the  court  house  was  occupied 
by  the  troops.  Born  rummagers,  these  inquisitive  Yankee 
boys  sadly  deranged  the  orderly  accumulation  of  deeds  for 
far  more  than  a  century,  and  how  they  did  wish  they  could 
send  some  of  the  curios  home  to  Massachusetts.  One  boy  did 
send  a  bill  of  sale  of  a  negro  and  an  old  deed.  Whipping-post 
and  stocks  were  also  unaccustomed  sights  to  the  invaders. 
Both  jail  and  whipping-post  went  up  in  flames  this  day,  the 
soldiers  thinking  their  mission  ended,  the  former  having  been 
the  place  of  torture  to  many  a  Union  man.  The  8th  of  Novem- 


148        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

ber  was  a  veritable  day  of  rest  and  the  boys  made  the  most  of 
it.  In  one  company,  the  story  is  told  that  the  tallest  man  in 
its  ranks  brought  in  a  hive  of  bees  and,  securing  the  honey, 
now  and  then  one  of  the  insects  that  made  it  appeared.  This 
tall  man  in  taking  a  bite  of  the  sweetness  of  the  honeycomb, 
did  not  observe  the  business  end  of  a  bee  as  he  rolled  the 
sweet  morsel  in  his  mouth,  but  the  bee  got  in  his  work  and  the 
sight  the  poor  man's  swollen  cheek  presented,  only  those  who 
saw  could  properly  picture.  No  lesson  nor  retribution  could 
destroy  the  soldier's  liking  for  honey. 

Having  rested  Saturday,  the  retreat  was  continued  the 
next  day,  or  Sunday,  the  9th.  As  the  lines  were  forming  the 
Chaplain  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts  rode  along 
the  ranks  of  his  regiment,  saying,  "  Boys,  this  is  the  Sabbath, 
and  as  we  can't  have  other  religious  exercises,  let  all  of  us  join 
in  singing  the  Doxology."  It  was  started  at  once,  and  like 
wild-fire  the  sound  sped  down  the  lines,  and  in  a  moment  five 
thousand  men,  with  uncovered  heads,  were  singing  "  Praise 
God  from  whom  all  blessings  flow,  "  a  magnificent  tribute  to 
their  birth  and  rearing.  The  march  of  this  day  was  to  the 
vicinity  of  Plymouth,  within  four  miles,  it  was  said.  The 
route  was  along  the  south  bank  of  the  Roanoke.  Monday, 
the  10th,  brought  the  expedition  to  Plymouth,  and  a  chance 
to  travel  in  another  manner.  An  enterprising  place,  as  North 
Carolina  villages  went,  the  chief  fame  of  this  southern  Ply 
mouth  was  to  come  two  years  later,  when  the  place  was  cap 
tured  by  a  large  rebel  force  under  General  R.  F.  Hoke,  and 
very  large  numbers  of  Union  prisoners  were  taken,  including 
several  hundred  from  the  Second  Massachusetts  Heavy 
Artillery.  In  the  engagement  the  enemy  was  assisted  by  the 
rebel  ram,  "Albemarle,"  constructed  on  the  Roanoke,  at 
Edward's  Ferry,  forty  miles  above  Rainbow  Bluff,  visited 
in  the  recent  raid.  This  craft  was  to  win  greater  fame,  in 
subsequent  months,  through  her  being  rendered  helpless  by 
the  ramming  of  the  U.S.S.uSassacus,"  under  Lieut.  Commander 
F.  A.  Roe,  and  her  subsequent  destruction  by  the  affixing  of 


Nov.  11,  '62.  THE  RETURN.  149 

a  torpedo,  as  she  lay  at  her  Plymouth  wharf,  by  Lieut.  W.  B. 
Gushing. 

It  was  just  before  reaching  the  village,  at  the  encampment 
of  the  preceding  night,  that  there  was  given  a  good  illustra 
tion  of  "  forbearance  ceasing  to  be  a  virtue."  Many  of  the 
officers  had  sought  shelter  in  the  house  belonging  to  a  fine 
plantation.  The  women  members  of  the  household  were 
implacable  rebels,  and  were  incessant  in  their  nagging  of  all 
the  officers.  At  first  Colonel  Peirson  had  given  orders  that 
the  belongings  of  the  place,  whether  sentient  or  insentient, 
should  be  unmolested.  For  a  considerable  time  he  endured 
the  vituperations  of  the  women,  till  at  last  he  could  endure 
their  tongue-lashing  no  longer,  and  sent  to  the  regiment, 
ordering  that  two  of  the  smartest  men  from  each  company 
should  be  sent  to  him.  On  their  arrival  he  simply  remarked 
to  the  twenty  men  that  they  might  help  themselves  to  what 
ever  feathered  creatures  they  might  find.  Whether  the  per 
mission  stilled  the  offensive  tongues  of  the  women  it  is  not 
known,  but  the  members  of  the  companies  record  high  feast 
ing  on  that  particular  night. 

Tuesday,  the  llth,  the  men  were  embarked  on  gunboats 
preparatory  to  a  ride  back  to  Newbern.  Rations  were  dis 
tributed  before  going  on  shipboard,  and  some  of  the  companies 
were  disgusted  enough  at  finding  their  supply  of  hard-tack 
just  a  mass  of  mould,  on  account  of  the  drippings  from  leaky 
barrels  of  corned  beef.  Luckily  the  ships'  stores  were  able  to 
make  up  for  the  loss,  though  the  substitute  rations  proved 
to  be  animated,  sometimes  the  case,  but  the  men  shut  their 
eyes  and  kept  on  eating.  On  the  way  down  the  river,  and 
through  Albemarle  Sound,  the  boats  passed  by  Roanoke 
Island,  the  scene  of  Burnside's  victory  in  the  preceding  Feb 
ruary,  and  naturally  all  eyes  were  alert  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the 
locality  whose  capture  had  given  the  loyal  North  so  much 
comfort  and  encouragement.  The  gunboats  were  getting 
back  to  Newbern  from  Wednesday  evening  to  Thursday 
morning,  the  men  having  been  away  just  two  weeks,  in  the 


150       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

language  of  one  observer,  "  Having  captured  200  horses  and 
mules,  a  month's  supplies  for  our  forces  and  having  developed 
considerable  Union  sentiment  in  this  part  of  the  Old  North 
State.  Besides,  these  Yankees  had  learned  what  "  piney 
woods  "  meant,  and  one  witty  fellow  remarked  that  the  sec 
tion  would  be  a  good  one  for  musicians,  since  they  would 
always  be  sure  of  the  "  pitch." 

NEWBERN. 

It  has  been  stated  already  that  certain  portions  of  the 
many  regiments  which  were  in  the  Tarboro  Expedition  had 
been  left  at  Newbern  as  a  defense  against  possible  attack. 
One  of  the  men  thus  left  behind  remarks  in  his  notes  that  at 
first  he  thought  himself  particularly  unfortunate,  but  when  he 
saw  his  comrades  on  their  return,  weary,  muddy,  lame  and 
sick,  he  concluded  he  had  had  a  pretty  good  time.  As  he 
recounts  his  story,  "  The  very  night  after  the  troops  left  us, 
the  enemy  drove  in  our  pickets,  who  were  guarding  the  city 
along  the  Trent  road.  There  was  no  myth  this  time,  for  the 
rebs  were  there  for  sure.  Our  officer  in  command,  Lieut.  E. 
N.  Pierce,  was  equal  to  the  occasion  for  getting  us  into  line; 
he  spoke  in  an  eloquent  manner,  telling  us  that  we  had  no 
means  of  knowing  what  might  happen  during  the  night,  but 
he  enjoined  upon  us  the  necessity  of  standing  firm  and  of 
acquitting  ourselves  like  men.  The  night  was  very  dark, 
heavy  clouds  overhung  the  camp,  vivid  flashes  of  lightning 
•added  to  the  interest  or  excitement,  while  orderlies  riding  at 
great  speed  made  us  think  there  was  trouble  ahead  sure. 
But  the  enemy  came  no  farther  than  the  picket  line,  and 
while  we  returned  to  our  quarters,  we  were  enjoined  not  to 
take  off  our  equipments  nor  to  lay  aside  our  guns.  In  the 
meantime,  the  wind  began  to  rise  and  driving  the  halliards  of 
a  tent-cap  against  the  canvas  with  a  heavy  thud,  awoke  an 
excited  soldier,  who  sprang  up  shouting,  ;  The  rebels  are  on 
us!'  This  was  enough  to  stir  up  the  occupants  of  other  tents, 


Nov.  15,  '62.  NEWBERN.  151 

who  repeated  the  shout,  and  soon  the  whole  camp  was  aroused 
and  the  long  roll  sounded  again."  November  5th,  as  spoils 
from  the  enemy,  150  horses  were  brought  into  camp.  The  next 
day  twenty-five  disabled  men  came  back  from  the  regiment. 
One  man  remarked  that  he  had  ransacked  the  camp  for  some 
thing  to  read,  but  without  success,  had  re-read  all  of  his  let 
ters  and  would  give  his  day's  rations  for  a  Boston  paper.  First 
frost  came  November  9th.  On  the  llth  the  pickets  were 
driven  in  again,  and  the  long  roll  was  sounded,  picket  firing 
continuing  during  the  night.  In  the  morning,  troops  were 
sent  out  to  reestablish  the  line.  Evidently  the  enemy  thought 
the  absence  of  so  many  troops  on  the  Tarboro  trip  was  a  good 
time  to  stir  up  Newbern,  but  before  a  really  effectual  assault 
could  be  arranged,  the  absent  regiments  began  to  return  and 
the  "  Johnnies  "  thought  they  would  wait  awhile. 

On  Saturday,  the  loth,  L. H. Farnsworth  (I),  who  had  gone 
home  from  Holmes'  Hole  with  the  body  of  Grenache,  returned 
bringing  with  him  the  deserter  mentioned  in  that  connection. 
In  camp  life  there  is  many  a  tempest  in  a  teapot,  and  one 
company  was  thrown  into  a  tumult  because  of  the  unwilling 
ness  of  the  cooks  to  wash  the  dishes,  the  captain  finally  ruling 
that  each  man  must  pay  25  cents  per  month  as  his  share  of 
the  compensation,  due  the  aforesaid  cooks  for  the  extra  labor. 
Tent  company  or  associates  were  frequently  the  result  of 
locality  sameness,  or  kindred  tastes  and  habits.  There  were 
such  associations  where  there  were  the  reading  of  the  Bible 
and  prayer  each  night.  From  such  a  tent,  the  records  say 
that  there  came  an  editor,  a  Boston  grammar-school  master, 
a  high-school  teacher,  a  lawyer  and  a  minister.  Most  of  the 
men  thought  themselves  fortunate  that  they  were  sheltered 
in  Sibley  tents,  rather  than  in  barracks  made  of  green  lumber, 
as  some  of  the  latter  were.  After  awhile  the  greater  number 
of  the  tents  were  raised  up  and  floored  and,  with  a  sheet-iron 
stove  in  the  middle  of  the  tent,  they  had  no  trouble  in  keep 
ing  warm.  Unfortunately  the  pipe  furnished  by  the  quarter 
master  did  not  reach  the  top  of  the  tent,  so,  unless  the  occu- 


152        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

pants  clubbed  together  and  bought  additional  lengths,  the 
smoke  took  its  own  time  in  escaping  from  the  inclosed  space. 
A  source  of  great  annoyance  to  the  men  was  the  presence 
of  many  rats,  that  seemed  to  thrive  on  the  unsanitary  ways 
of  housekeeping  that  obtained.  They  grew  quite  unconcerned 
over  the  presence  of  human  beings,  and  the  latter  sometimes 
had  their  slumbers  disturbed  by  the  rodents  running  across 
their  faces.  Much  to  the  comfort  and  satisfaction  of  the  men, 
the  long-delayed  overcoats  arrived  and  were  distributed,  some 
say,  the  18th  of  November,  whereupon  the  soldiers  felt  that  they 
were  really  "  Boys  in  Blue."  That  the  regimental  band  played 
at  dress-parade  on  the  18th  is  evidence  that  it  was  in  existence 
then,  and  its  playing  secured  admiring  mention  by  the  chroni 
clers.  A  young  man  who  had  enlisted  as  a  student,  evidently 
continued  his  studies  in  camp,  since  on  the  24th  he  records  his 
finishing  of  Caesars  Commentaries.  Also  on  this  day,  obe 
dient  to  orders,  Second  Lieutenants  A.  J.  Holbrook  (E)  and 
E.  N.  Pierce  (F),  with  Privates  R.  T.  Chamberlain  (B),  Wm. 
Coleman  (D),  C.  W.  Richardson  (G)  and  L.  H.  Farnsworth 
(I),  were  detailed  for  service  in  the  Signal  Corps.  "  Over  the 
River  for  Brigade  Drill  "  means  that  the  several  regiments 
had  to  go  through  the  city  and  cross  the  Trent  to  reach  the 
place  of  instruction.  Writing  home  on  the  25th,  a  young 
man  informs  the  good  folks  there  as  follows : 

Our  camp  duties  are  nearly  the  same  that  the}'  were  at 
Camp  Lander,  except  that  they  occupy  more  of  our  time  and 
are  more  strict.  At  6  a.m.  reveille  is  sounded,  when  we  turn 
out  for  roll-call.  After  that,  by  the  time  we  get  our  blanket 
shaken  and  hands  and  faces  washed,  fires  made  and  street 
swept,  it  is  7  o'clock,  the  time  for  breakfast,  It  takes  the 
greater  part  of  an  hour  to  have  the  same  served  out  and 
eaten  and  dishes  washed.  From  8  o'clock  to  10  we  generally 
have  the  time  to  ourselves,  to  clean  guns,  mend  clothes  and 
write  letters.  Company  drills  are  from  10  o'clock  till  12. 
Dirmer  follows,  and  at  1.30  or  2  o'clock  we  fall  in  for  regi 
mental  or  brigade  drill,  as  the  same  may  be,  then  drilling 
until  4  p.m.  Dress-parade  takes  place  at  4.30,  and  supper 


Nov.  28,  '62.  NEWBERN.  153 

comes  at  5.30.  At  8  retreat  is  sounded,  and  at  8.30  lights  are 
out  at  the  sound  of  taps.  On  the  19th  we  were  inspected 
and  commended  by  General  Foster.  Second  Lieutenant  Hoi- 
brook  (E)  has  been  appointed  to  the  Signal  Corps.  Our  new 
overcoats  are  a  great  improvement  on  the  old  ones.  The 
latter  were  charged  to  us  at  the  rate  of  $1.87  apiece,  and 
General  Foster  says  we  can  sell  them  to  the  darkeys  at  $1.50 
each,  so  our  few  days'  wear  cost  us  37  cents  apiece.  Yester 
day  I  had  a  pass  and  went  into  the  city  to  get  some  things 
for  Thanksgiving  dinner,  viz.:  a  peck  of  Indian-meal,  30 
cent?;  three  quarts  of  molasses  at  20  cents  a  quart.  We 
thought  the  company  would  draw  fresh  meat  rations  to-day, 
so  that  we  could  get  suet  for  an  Indian  pudding,  and  we  had 
even  engaged  to  have  it  baked  by  one  of  the  negro  women, 
but  we  got  salt  fish  instead,  hence  had  to  give  up  the  pud 
ding.  The  officers  of  the  Chariest-own  City  Guard  have  bought 
fowl,  as  chickens  and  turkeys,  for  their  men,  and  are  going 
to  have  a  regular  Thanksgiving  dinner. 

Friday,  Nov.  28.  There  was  a  meeting  held  last  Sunday, 
the  first  one  .since  leaving  Camp  Lander,  and  in  the  evening 
there  was  a  prayer-meeting.  We  have  had  a  chapter  in  the 
Bible  read  every  night  since  we  came  into  camp,  each  one  tak 
ing  turns.  Yesterday  was  Thanksgiving  and  we  had  the 
entire  day  to  ourselves.  Half  of  each  company  had  passes  in 
the  forenoon,  the  other  half  in  the  afternoon.  Our  dinner 
was  of  beef-steak  and  a  stirred  pudding  and,  under  the  cir 
cumstances,  was  very  good.  In  the  afternoon  there  was  a 
burlesque  dress-parade  in  which  there  was  no  end  of  fun. 
Many  officers,  looking  on,  saw  and  heard  themselves  trav 
estied  in  no  uncertain  manner,  each  little  peculiarity  getting 
its  proper  hit. 

Another  writer  describing  the  fanciful  affair  of  the  after 
noon  says: 

Our  regiment  had  an  evening  dress-parade,  none  but 
privates  were  allowed  to  participate,  and  they  selected  a 
full  complement  of  officers  from  the  ranks.  Each  soldier 
dressed  as  he  pleased.  Some  were  clothed  in  white,  some 
in  red  and  variegated  colors;  others  had  heavy  gray  beards 
and  wigs,  made  from  the  moss  which  grows  so  plentifully 
in  the  cypress  swamps;  shirts  and  drawers  outside;  caps  and 
coats  wrong  side  out  and  wrong  side  up,  in  every  conceivable 


154         FIFTH  REGIMENT  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

manner,  making  a  novel  and  picturesque,  if  not  elegant, 
appearance.  Each  member  of  the  band  played  a  tune  of  his 
own  choice,  creating  a  bedlam  of  discords  indescribable. 

From  other  sources  it  appears  that  the  Thanksgiving  Proc 
lamation  of  Governor  Andrew  was  read,  and  Chaplain  Snow 
conducted  religious  services.  There  was  no  uniformity  in 
dinner  menus,  each  company  being  a  law  unto  itself,  oyster 
stew  and  plum  pudding  filling  the  bill  in  one,  while  chicken 
stew  and  whiskey  punch  were  the  notable  viands  of  another. 
Perhaps  no  one  company  fared  better  on  this  day  than  the 
Woburri  Phalanx  (G),  whose  good  luck  was  thus  mentioned  in 
the  diary  of  a  member:  "Seventy-six  chickens  were  brought 
to  the  Phalanx  for  Thanksgiving,"  and  on  the  day  itself  he 
wrote:  "  Company  G  had  baked  beans  for  breakfast,  boiled 
chicken  for  dinner  and  doughnuts  for  supper."  In  the  retro 
spect,  one  or  two  reflections  concerning  this  last  entry  are 
allowable.  Those  seventy-six  chickens  must  have  been  very 
small,  the  men  enormous  eaters,  or  such  an  allowance  of  fowl 
ought  to  have  afforded  Thanksgiving  suggestions  for  the 
remainder  of  the  week. 

To  the  good,  honest  soldier  no  pleasure  of  his  camp  life  was 
greater  than  that  of  receiving  letters  from  home.  No  matter 
how  engrossing  the  duties  of  his  every-day  life  might  be,  there 
was  ever  time  to  think  about  home  and  to  wonder  when  the 
folks  there  were  going  to  write.  When  the  mail  came  in, 
whatever  the  hour  of  day  or  night,  he  was  ready  to  receive 
and  read;  witness  the  following,  written  Monday,  Dec.  1: 
"  A  mail  arrived  at  midnight;  all  turned  out  at  one  o'clock  to 
receive  letters  from  home;  candles  were  lighted  arid  all  who 
had  received  letters  were  soon  engaged  in  absorbing  the  con 
tents  of  the  precious  missives."  Another,  commenting  on  his 
failure  to  hear  from  home  for  nearly  a  month,  thinks  that  the 
messages  must  have  gone  astray.  He  is  evidently  a  thought 
ful  young  man,  since  he  has  criticism  for  Fernando  Wood  and 
Erastus  Brooks  of  New  York,  and  a  word  of  rejoicing  over  the 


DECEMBER,  '62.  NEWBERN.  155 

election  to  Congress  of  Alexander  H.  Rice,  the  subsequent 
Governor  of  the  Commonwealth.  He  comments  thus  on  pass 
ing  events : 

Last  Sunday  (Nov.  30)  eleven  of  us  went  into  the  city 
to  church.  It  is  a  Presbyterian  edifice,  but  is  now  used  by 
the  soldiers.  The  building  was  well  filled,  principally  by 
soldiers  of  the  Seventeenth  Massachusetts,  whose  Chaplain 
preached  from  the  136th  Psalm,  not  a  very  appropriate  ser 
mon  for  a  soldier  audience.  The  organ,  however,  was  there 
and  fche  singing  was  splendid.  Later  we  went  to  a  colored 
church,  where  the  people  seemed  to  be  earnest  and  deeply 
engaged.  They  sing  old-fashioned  tunes,  whose  words  the 
minister  lines  for  them.  .  .  .  Last  night  (Dec.  1) 
Daniel  McGillicuddy  (F)  of  Medford  died,  he  being  the  third 
to  pass  on  since  we  left  Massachusetts;  the  other  two  were 
Grenache  (I)  from  a  fall  on  shipboard  and  Timothy  Shehan 
(A),  of  Charlestown,  Nov.  22.  Court-martials  have  been 
common  since  Thanksgiving;  one  private  for  forging  a  pass 
was  sentenced  to  wear  his  knapsack,  packed,  on  all  drills  for 
a  week,  and  not  to  receive  a  pass  for  a  month;  another  for 
getting  drunk  on  Thanksgiving  Day  had  the  same  knapsack 
sentence  and  is  debarred  from  passes  for  three  months.  Wo 
haven't  had  much  cold  weather  yet,  though  the  nights  have 
been  rather  chilly.  Tod?y  (Dec.  2)  T  drilled  without  a  vest 
and  was  plenty  warm.  The  steamer  "Mississippi"  ha°  just 
brought  two  more  Massachusetts  regiments,  the  Eighth  and 
the  Fiftv-firsfc,  they  having  come  up  from  Morehead  City, 
Nov.  3(h 

The  earlier  days  of  December  abounded  in  stormy  weather; 
one  man  writes,  "  Confining  us  to  our  tents,  where  we  live  in 
the  sand  like  swine."  Evidently  he  and  his  party  had  not 
put  flooring  into  their  "  Sibley."  Another,  writing  on  the 
5th,  says,  "  It  rained  today,  so  that  we  drilled  only  a  short 
time."  He  makes  this  interesting  entry  concerning  guard- 
duty,  "  When  the  guard  comes  off  duty,  it  fires  at  a  target, 
which  is  a  full  sized  man  marked  on  a  board,  and  the  best 
three  shots  are  excused  from  duty  when  their  turn  comes 
around  again.  Of  course,  I  wasn't  one  of  the  lucky  ones. 
For  several  days  past,  we  have  drilled  by  brigade  in  loading 


156         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

and  firing  blank  cartridges.  It  looks  as  though  we  were  get 
ting  ready  for  action.  The  paymaster  has  arrived  and  there 
is  prospect  of  our  receiving  our  first  two  months'  pay.  It  is 
nearly  three  months  since  we  were  mustered  in,  still  I  don't 
think  we  have  much  occasion  to  find  fault.  The  boys  are 
receiving  boxes  from  home  and  it  seems  good  to  see  old  Massa 
chusetts  '  grub  '  once  more." 

December  6th  brought  an  immense  mail,  it  being  stated 
that  10,000  letters  and  papers  were  distributed  to  the  Fifth 
Regiment  alone.  What  a  host  of  friends  the  boys  had  in  that 
far-away  homeland.  In  a  single  tent  there  were  received 
thirty-six  letters  and  thirty-nine  papers  one  day  and  twenty- 
five  letters  the  next.  With  such  literary  occupations,  reading 
and  writing,  where  did  the  time  for  other  work  come  in? 
When  the  folks  at  home  write  stating  that  from  letters  received, 
they  would  not  suppose  that  the  Tarboro  trip  was  a  very  try 
ing  one,  the  honest  volunteer  says,  "  I  had  no  idea  of  writing 
about  '  awfully  hard  marching,'  '  blistered  feet,'  '  nothing  to 
eat,'  and  so  on.  I  didn't  expect  to  have  a  very  easy  time 
when  I  enlisted  and  thus  far  I  have  seen  no  more  hardships 
than  I  expected,  and  I  have  not  yet  been  sorry  that  I  entered 
Uncle  Sam's  family  of  boys.  Perhaps  when  we  encounter 
greater  hardships,  I  shall  have  occasion  to  change  my  mind." 

The  night  before  the  7th  of  December  it  was  cold  enough  to 
freeze  the  water  in  the  near-by  swamp  to  the  thickness  of 
three-eighths  of  an  inch.  Evidently  the  good  folks  way  up 
in  that  northland  are  preparing  many  tokens  of  their  loving 
care  and  boxing  them  for  their  representatives  in  Dixie,  for 
all  records  teem  with  recitals  of  boxes  received  or  boxes  ex 
pected.  In  these  winterish  days,  there  were  thoughts  of  Bible 
study,  and  it  is  recorded  that  a  class  of  fifty  members,  in  three 
sections,  was  organized,  and  the  first  meetings  were  scheduled 
for  the  7th,  this  being  Sunday,  but  the  advent  of  a  mail  of 
papers  interrupted,  nor  was  there  any  other  religious  service, 
the  raw  weather  preventing.  That  some  of  the  regiment  were 
careful  of  appearances  is  shown  when  a  boy  writes  home  for 


DECEMBER,  '62.       GOLDSBORO  EXPEDITION.  157 

yarn  with  which  to  mend  his  socks,  saying  that  he  had  become 
a  great  hand  in  washing  and  mending,  though  he  did  not 
always  wash  on  Monday,  and  his  ironing  was  done  on  the 
8th  day  of  the  week. 

GOLDSBORO  EXPEDITION. 

Probably  all  members  of  the  Fifth  Regiment  will  agree  that 
there  was  no  more  important  event  in  the  record  of  their  nine- 
months'  service  than  the  December  raid  which  they,  with 
several  thousands  of  others,  made  into  the  interior  of  North 
Carolina.  While  the  Burnside  Expedition  had  accomplished 
much  for  the  Union  cause  and  had  enheartened  Lincoln  and 
the  people  immeasurably,  yet  the  taking  away  of  many  of  the 
troops  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  and  elsewhere,  the  with 
drawal  of  Burnside  himself,  however  excellent  his  successor, 
General  Foster,  might  be,  all  had  conspired  to  prevent  the 
realization  of  plans  that  had  been  in  the  mind  when  the  Union 
forces  entered  the  Carolina  waters  in  the  preceding  February. 
There  had  been  times  when  to  hold  what  had  been  taken  was 
esteemed  the  best  those  left  in  charge  could  be  expected  to  do. 
It  was  to  compensate  for  these  same  withdrawn  regiments 
that  our  Massachusetts  men,  of  the  short  term,  had  been  sent, 
and  they  were  about  to  have  a  chance  to  show  how  well  they 
could  act. 

General  Burnside,  on  the  7th  of  November,  had  been 
appointed  })y  the  President  as  the  successor  of  General 
George  B.  McClellan  in  the  command  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac.  In  these  early  December  days  his  great  force  of 
men-  was  gathered  on  and  about  the  Heights  of  Falmouth, 
opposite  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  with  the  waters  of  the  Rappa- 
hannock  flowing  between.  That  he  might  meet  the  least 
opposition  possible  in  his  contemplated  attack  on  the  Virginia 
city,  behind  whose  buildings  and  battlements  the  hosts  of 
Lee  were  encamped,  it  was  ordered  that  there  should  be  a 
simultaneous  attack  all  along  the  lines,  thus  preventing  any 


158        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


DECEMBER,  '62.      GOLDSBORO  EXPEDITION.  159 

sending  of  relief  to  the  Confederates  when  the  attack  should 
begin.  That  Burnside  in  this  connection  should  remember 
his  faithful  followers  on  the  Carolina  shores  was  the  most 
natural  thing  in  the  world,  and  when  his  armies  were  essay 
ing  the  terrible  crossing  of  the  Rappahannock,  the  soldiers 
in  the  Old  North  State  under  Foster  were  to  move  on  to  Golds- 
boro.  Another  simultaneous  movement  was  to  have  been  an 
attack  on  Weldon  by  General  John  J.  Peck  in  command  at 
Norfolk,  but  the  detaching  of  General  Henry  W.  Wessells 
and  his  Brigade  to  Newbern  and  General  Foster  left  Peck  in 
such  condition  that  attacking  was  quite  out  of  the  question. 
To  take  care  of  his  post  was  the  most  that  could  be  expected 
of  him. 

Goldsboro,  the  county  seat  of  Wayne  County,  is  one  of 
the  important  cities  of  the  North  State  and  in  war-times  had 
considerable  prominence  as  a  station  on  the  Wilmington  ct 
Weldon  R.  R.,  the  principal  line  between  Richmond  and  the 
extreme  South.  Could  the  railroad  be  taken  and  held  or  seri 
ously  injured,  a  severe  blow  thereby  would  be  inflicted  upon 
the  Confederacy,  another  reason  for  these  winter  activities. 
Situated  on  the  Neuse,  it  was  one  of  the  larger  places  of  the 
State,  and  at  certain  times  was  reached  by  vessels,  though 
as  a  rule  Whitehall  was  considered  the  head  of  navigation  on 
that  stream.  The  force  assigned  to  the  expedition  consisted 
of  the  brigades  of  Lee,  Stevenson,  Amory  and  Wessells,  with 
the  artillery  brigade  under  Major  Kennedy,  having  in  all 
about  fifty  guns  of  varying  calibre. 

Lee's  brigade  was  made  up  of  the  Third,  Fifth,  Twenty-fifth, 
Twenty-seventh  and  Forty-sixth  Massachusetts  Regiments. 

Stevenson's  had  the  Eighth,  Twenty-fourth,  Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts,  Fifth  Rhode  Island  and  Tenth  Connecticut 
Regiments. 

Amory's  comprised  the  Seventeenth,  Twenty-third,  Forty- 
third,  Forty-fifth  and  Fifty-first  Regiments. 

Wessells',  the  lately  arrived  from  Norfolk,  had  the  Eighty- 
fifth,  Ninety-second,  Ninety-sixth  New  York,  Eighty-fifth, 


160        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

One  Hundred  and  First  and  One  Hundred  Third  Pennsylvania 
Regiments.  It  should  be  stated  that  the  Eighth  Massachu 
setts  did  not  accompany  the  expedition,  but  remained  in  New- 
bern  as  garrison.  In  all,  it  was  estimated  that  about  12,000 
men  were  on  the  march. 

Major  General  of  Volunteers  John  G.  Foster,  chief  in 
command,  was  a  New  Hampshire  man  by  birth,  1824,  and 
a  West  Pointer,  1846;  served  in  the  Mexican  War,  was 
wounded,  and  was  brevetted  for  gallantry;  was  assistant 
professor  of  engineering  at  West  Point,  1854-'58,  and  as  an 
instructor  taught  many  of  the  young  officers  now  opposed 
to  him,  among  them  the  Colonel,  H.  K.  Burgwyn,  Twenty- 
sixth  North  Carolina,  one  of  the  regiments  opposed  to  the 
Federals  in  their  Tarboro  trip,  one  of  those  making  a  stand 
at  Rawles'  Mills.  The  Confederates  in  their  account  of  the 
affair  laid  considerable  stress  on  the  pupil's  having  outwitted 
his  teacher.  Foster  was  one  of  Burnside's  brigade  command 
ers,  and  when  the  superior  officer  was  ordered  to  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  Foster  succeeded  him  in  North  Carolina. 
He  had  been  one  of  Major  Anderson's  men  in  Fort  Sumter. 
The  greater  part  of  his  subsequent  service  was  had  in  this 
department.  He  died  at  Nashua,  N.  H.,  September  2,  1874. 

Brevet  Brigadier-general  Horace  C.  Lee,  Colonel  of  the 
Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts,  at  this  time  commanding  the 
brigade,  was  born  in  Springfield,  January  31, 1822,  and  received 
his  education  there.  At  the  age  of  twenty,  he  assisted  in  the 
formation  of  the  Springfield  Light  Guards,  and  was  Fourth 
Lieutenant  at  the  expiration  of  their  charter.  He  subse 
quently  held  high  rank  in  the  militia,  having  been  Colonel 
of  the  Twelfth  Regiment,  and  was  a  Brigadier-general  when 
he  resigned  his  commission.  Largely  instrumental  in  the 
raising  of  the  regiment,  he  saw  all  of  the  earlier  service  of  the 
same  in  the  Burnside  Expedition,  and  on  the  retirement  of 
Burnside  became  a  brigade  commander.  He  was  actively 
employed  in  North  Carolina  until  the  spring  of  1864,  when, 
with  others,  his  regiment  was  ordered  to  the  Virginia  service, 


DECEMBER,  '62.     GOLDSBORO  EXPEDITION.  161 

where  he  was  taken  prisoner  at  Drewry's  Bluff.  He  was  mus 
tered  out  with  his  regiment  September  27,  1864.  After  the  war 
he  was  several  years  in  the  Custom  House,  Boston,  and  later 
was  Postmaster  of  Springfield  for  twelve  years,  dying  June 
22,  1884. 

Brigadier-general  Thomas  G.  Stevenson  was  the  first  Colo 
nel  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Massachusetts.  Born  in  Boston,  he 
was  twenty-five  years  old  when  the  war  began,  and  was 
Major  in  command  of  the  Fourth  Battalion,  Fort  Warren, 
during  the  earlier  months  of  the  war;  promoted  for  gallantry 
on  the  field,  he  was  called  to  Virginia  by  his  old  leader,  Burn- 
side,  and,  in  command  of  the  First  Division  of  the  Ninth  Army 
Corps,  was  killed  at  Spottsylvania,  May  10,  1864.  A  beauti 
ful  bas-relief,  erected  by  his  comrades  and  friends,  fills  a  space 
at  the  south  entrance  of  the  Hall  of  Flags,  State  House,  Boston. 

Brevet  Brigadier-general  Thomas  J.  C.  Amory,  also  Bos 
ton  born,  was  graduated  from  West  Point,  1851,  and  was  a 
captain  in  the  Seventh  Infantry  when  the  war  began.  In  1861 
he  served  as  mustering  officer,  thus  assisting  in  the  organi 
zation  of  many  regiments.  On  the  organizing  of  the  Seven 
teenth,  he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  and  accompanied  the 
same  to  North  Carolina.  In  the  autumn  of  1864,  Newbern 
suffered  from  a  scourge  of  yellow  fever,  and  among  other 
victims  was  the  wife  of  the  Colonel.  Returning  from  her 
funeral,  he  was  himself  stricken  with  the  dread  disease  and 
died  on  the  6th  of  October. 

Brigadier-general  Henry  W.  Wessells  was  a  native  of 
Litchfield,  Conn.,  February  20, 1809 ;  West  Point,  1833;  served  in 
early  wars  with  the  Southern  Indians;  in  the  Mexican  war, 
where  he  was  wounded  and  brevetted  for  bravery;  he  organ 
ized  the  Eighth  Kansas,  and  with  his  regiment  was  under 
General  Sykes  at  Yorktown;  was  wounded  at  Fair  Oaks. 
From  Virginia,  as  already  seen,  he  was  transferred  to  North 
Carolina,  and  in  April,  '64,  being  in  command,  he  was  obliged 
to  surrender  Plymouth  to  the  enemy,  after,*  a  defense'of  four 
days.  He  was  retired  January  1,  1871,  from  the  regular  army 

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162        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  »V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

after  forty-two  years  of  faithful  service.     He  died  in  Dover, 
Delaware,  January  13,  1889. 

December  10th  orders  were  issued  to  the  effect  that  rations 
should  be  prepared  and  baggage  packed  with  expectation  of 
marching  within  thirty-six  hours.  Of  course,  no  one  had  the 
least  idea  of  his  destination.  The  soldier's  duty  is  to  obey 
orders,  not  to  reason  why.  The  food  was  made  ready,  knap 
sacks  were  packed  with  whatever  the  owners  did  riot  deem 
imperatively  necessary  on  the  march  and,  with  other  camp 
equipage,  were  stored  on  transports,  leaving  only  the  tents 
standing.  As  the  brigade  was  to  close  the  rear  as  usual  and 
the  Fifth  was  to  act  as  a  wagon-guard,  the  start  for  these  men 
was  not  as  early  as  that  of  those  who  led  off.  Though  the 
regimental  line  was  formed  at  7  a.m.  (12th)  and  the  brigade 
soon  after,  there  were  so  many  halts  and  interruptions,  sun 
down  saw  them  still  within  sight  of  their  standing  camp,  the 
same  being  scarcely  more  than  a  mile  away.  A  dense  fog  in 
the  morning  obscured  everything.  The  route  was  along  the 
Trent  road,  and  though  the  march  was  kept  up  until  nearly 
4  o'clock  in  the  morning,  scarcely  more  than  seven  or  eight 
miles  were  traversed.  Much  of  the  distance  was  marked  by 
the  destruction  of  fence-rails,  these  being  the  standard  arti 
cles  of  use  in  all  campfires,  whether  for  heat,  light  or  coffee- 
boiling.  All  along  the  roads  were  tall  pitch-pines  from  whose 
wounded  sides  had  flowed  the  pitch  for  the  making  of  tar, 
rosin  and  turpentine.  There  being  great  quantities  of  the 
pitch,  dried  and  adhering  to  the  sides  of  the  trees,  it  was  an 
easy  matter  to  ignite  it,  and  a  splendid  spectacle  of  fire  accom 
panied  much  of  the  march. 

Late  as  was  the  halt,  even  it  was  not  of  long  duration,  for 
after  four  hours'  rest,  the  command  was  again  "  Forward," 
and  a  rapid  pace  was  maintained  until  10.30  a.m.,  when  there 
was  a  halt  of  three  hours.  This  stop,  however,  was  not  one 
of  real  rest,  rather  was  it  a  period  of  constant  expectation, 
being  called  into  line  frequently,  only  to  find  that  the  start 


DEC.  13,  '62.  GOLDSBORO  EXPEDITION.  163 

was  a  false  one.  The  trouble  arose  largely  from  the  trees 
that  the  enemy  had  felled  across  the  roads,  thus  rendering 
them  impassable  until  the  barriers  had  been  cut  away.  It 
is  probable  that  the  presence  of  so  many  obstructions  on  this 
road  towards  Kinston,  convinced  General  Foster  of  the  pro 
priety  of  changing  his  contemplated  route  for  one  farther  to 
the  left,  so  that  he  might  evade  the  preparations  of  the  Con 
federates.  Friday,  camp  was  pitched  soon  after  midnight. 
Saturday,  the  13th,  a  slow  start  was  made  at  6.30,  and  just 
before  noon  a  deep  stream  was  crossed  by  means  of  a  log 
bridge,  near  which  the  Fifty-first  Massachusetts  had  been 
left  as  guard.  Here  we  saw  our  first  rebel  prisoners.  A 
squad,  under  the  command  of  a  lieutenant,  had  been  sur 
prised  and  brought  in  by  our  cavalry  in  the  advance.  They 
were  a  sorry  looking  lot,  dressed  in  butternut  homespun, 
wearing  headgear  of  all  sorts  and  conditions.  They  were 
first-class  soldiers,  though,  brave,  resolute  and  reliable,  as  we 
soon  had  occasion  to  know. 

The  corduroy  roads  over  which  much  of  the  route  lay,  soon 
began  to  suffer  from  the  heavy  baggage  wagons  and  cannon 
rumbling  across  the  logs,  and  many  of  the  latter  broke 
through,  thus  precipitating  the  vehicles  into  the  underlying 
mud.  Through  such  means  a  train  was  stalled  during  the 
afternoon  of  Friday  and  all  hands  had  to  turn  in  to  help  the 
same  along.  Though  this  was  effected  at  the  expense  of  much 
loud  talk  and  profanity,  especially  on  the  part  of  the  team 
sters,  the  delay  was  long  and  vexatious.  The  story  is  told, 
though  with  how  much  truth  it  would  be  difficult  to  tell,  that 
the  driver  of  one  of  the  stalled  teams,  in  the  midst  of  his  wild 
raging,  was  approached  by  an  over-zealous  chaplain  with  the 
words,  "  My  dear  man,  do  you  know  what  Jesus  died  for?" 

i  T'  'ell  with  your  conundrums;  help   me   get  these   d d 

mules  out   of  this  -  —  mudhole,"   was  the  answer  the 

chaplain  got.  Darkness  came  on  during  the  efforts  at  extri 
cation,  and  the  weird  effect  of  the  torches,  lighted  to  help  on 
the  work,  gave  impressions  of  Inferno  that  few  of  these 


164        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

youthful  soldiers  had  ever  had.  At  last  all  of  the  wagons, 
save  one,  were  drawn  through,  and  this,  in  a  fit  of  despera 
tion,  was  unloaded.  Among  the  contents  was  a  barrel  of 
sugar  of  excellent  quality.  Though  government  goods,  those 
defenders  of  the  flag  thought  themselves  the  nearest  con 
sumers,  and  they  went  for  that  barrel  in  a  most  determined 
manner,  very  soon  emptying  it  of  its  very  last  grain  of  the 
tasty  stuff,  but  he  was  a  lucky  and  most  strenuous  man  who 
succeeded  in  getting  more  than  one  dip  in  the  barrel.  After 
the  exit  from  the  swamp,  camp  was  pitched  in  a  pleasant 
grove  near  a  little  church,  known  as  Woodington,*  though 
there  was  no  other  house  in  sight  and  there  were  not  more 
than  half  a  dozen  within  the  radius  of  a  mile.  Confiscated 
sugar  helped  out  the  evening  repast  of  hard-tack  and  coffee. 

KINSTON. 

The  battle  of  Kinston  was  fought  Sunday,  the  14th  day 
of  December,  just  sixty-three  years  after  the  death  of  Wash 
ington,  as  some  of  the  well-posted  soldiers  recalled.  The 
Lord's  day  always  did  seem  to  get  its  full  share  of  fighting 
in  all  wars,  and  never  a  larger  one  than  in  that  of  the  Rebel 
lion.  The  Fifth  Regiment  had  all  of  the  noise  and  excite 
ment  of  a  nearby  fight,  with  but  little  of  its  danger.  Says 
one  of  the  lads  who  made  notes  in  passing : 

The  two  right  companies,  H  and  E,  were  detailed  in  the 
morning  to  support  a  battery  of  artillery  and  some  cavalry 
which  were  sent  around  by  a  road  that  turned  off  to  the  right, 
but  finally  joined  the  road  which  the  main  body  of  our  troops 
followed,  probably  to  prevent  the  rebels  from  retreating  that 
way.  We  marched  quickly  around  to  the  support  of  the 
artillery,  which  was  already  engaged  with  the  enemy,  number 
ing  several  hundred  men,  who  had  destroyed  the  bridge  some 


*Twenty-six  years  later,  Geo.  E.  Mitchell,  Company  B,  journeying  over 
the  route  of  long  ago,  found  the  church  just  as  it  was,  save  for  a  coat  of 
paint.  Scratching  away  the  paint,  he  found  his  initials  just  as  he  cut  them 
when  he  was  a  Yankee  boy  in  Dixie. 


DEC.  14,  '62.  KINSTON.  165 

three  rods  long,  over  a  small  branch  of  the  Neuse,  called 
Southwest  Creek,  and,  having  thrown  up  an  earthwork,  had 
planted  two  pieces  of  artillery.  We  left  our  overcoats  and 
blankets  in  the  woods  to  be  ready  for  action,  and  the  first 
platoon  of  "  H  "  was  sent  forward  as  skirmishers;  the  rest  of 
us  were  posted  a  short  distance  from  the  road,  to  be  in  support 
ing  distance  of  the  artillery.  We  lay  there  for  some  time, 
expecting  the  order  to  move  forward  every  minute,  but  the 
Rebs,  after  firing  awhile,  probably  hearing  the  noise  of  the 
battle  in  their  rear  and  not  knowing  our  numbers,  being 
afraid  that  they  might  be  cut  off,  skedaddled,  leaving  us  to 
rebuild  the  bridge,  which  we  did  not  finish  until  four  o'clock. 
We  then  started  on  again,  with  the  second  platoon  of  H  as 
skirmishers,  but  had  advanced  only  half  a  mile  when  we 
heard  that  Kinston  had  been  taken.  The  skirmishers  were 
called  in  and  we  pushed  on  rapidly,  reaching  the  river  in  time 
to  cross  it  soon  after  dark,  and  encamped  for  the  night  in  the 
town,  the  rest  of  the  regiment  remaining  on  the  other  side  of 
the  stream  with  the  baggage.  Our  squad  of  cavalry  succeeded 
in  capturing  six  or  eight  of  the  rebels  after  our  long  stop  in 
repairing  the  bridge.  These  Rebs  are  about  the  hardest  look 
ing  lot  of  men  I  ever  saw — ragged,  dirty,  the  military  looks 
of  some  consisting  in  cap  only;  others  have  uniforms  of  home 
spun,  others  with  perhaps  a  part  of  a  suit,  and  still  another 
with  an  old  hood  for  a  cap.  Some  said  they  had  received  no 
pay  since  last  March;  some  haversacks  contained  only  corn- 
meal  bread  and  pork.  I  should  judge  that  they  fare  pretty 
hard.  I  saw  some  of  our  dead  and  wounded  and,  in  talking 
with  one  of  the  One  Hundred  Third  Pennsylvania  boys  the 
day  after  the  fight,  he  showed  me  where  he  had  been  wounded 
the  day  before,  in  the  fleshy  part  of  the  leg  above  the  knee, 
the  bullet  still  remaining  there.  He  didn't  pay  much  atten 
tion  to  it,  limping  along  as  if  it  were  not  of  much  consequence. 
I  think  our  loss  must  have  been  about  the  same  as  that  of 
the  enemy.  In  one  place  we  found  a  hog,  killed  and  dressed, 
ready  to  be  cut  up,  and  in  another  a  box  filled  with  pies,  cakes', 
biscuit,  sweet  potatoes,  etc.,  apparently  to  be  sent  to  some 
soldier  in  the  rebel  army.  Instead  it  helped  fill  certain  Yankee 
stomachs.  Kinston  seemed  to  me  to  be  a  place  of  more  thrift 
and  business,  and  had  a  more  Yankee-like  look  than  any  place 
I  have  seen  in  the  State. 

How  nearly  related  people  North  and  South  were,  was  well 
illustrated  by  an  incident  of  this  occupation.      The  wife  of  a 


166        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Dr.  Miller  was  a  Woburn  woman,  nee  Jameson.  She  had 
been  visiting  in  her  native  town  and  had  improved  the  oppor 
tunity  to  return  to  her  North  Carolina  home  on  the  steamer 
"  Mississippi"  when  that  vessel  bore  the  Fifth  Regiment  south 
ward.  Though  professing  to  be  loyal  in  her  sentiments,  it 
later  appeared  that  her  trunk  was  filled  with  quinine  for  the 
aid  and  comfort  of  the  enemy.  Acting  Lieut.  Wyer  of  Co.  E 
thought  the  chance  for  a  call  too  good  to  be  omitted,  and  so 
sought  out  and  had  a  visit  with  this  former  fellow  townswoman 
who,  in  her  Kinston  home,  was  realizing  what  civil  war  meant. 
Burning  cotton  and  other  articles  filled  the  air  with  smoke, 
hence  the  interview  between  the  soldier,  the  Doctor  and  the 
latter's  wife  was  not  exactly  conventional. 

Evidently  these  two  supporting  companies  of  the  Fifth 
came  nearer  the  fray  than  any  other  part  of  the  regiment, 
the  major  portion  being  still  in  the  rear  guarding  the  baggage 
train.  Many  of  the  men  improved  the  opportunity  to  make 
up  the  loss  of  sleep  for  the  preceding  days  and  nights,  the 
noise  of  the  firing  in  front  affording  only  a  pleasant  lullaby. 
As  to  the  battle  itself,  while  our  regiment  had  only  distant 
connection,  it  should  be  said  that  it  was  a  brisk  engagement, 
considering  the  numbers,  and  added  somewhat  to  the  laurels 
of  General  Foster,  though  its  details  were  not  exactly  what 
he  had  intended.  While  the  Forty-fifth  among  the  Massachu 
setts  nine-months'  troops  was  hotly  engaged,  and  lost  sixteen 
men,  the  other  regiments  from  the  Bay  State  heard  and  saw 
more  of  the  fight  than  they  actually  had  a  part  in.  The 
brunt  of  the  struggle  seemed  to  fall  on  the  Tenth  Connecticut, 
and  General  John  L.  Otis,  then  Lieut. -colonel  of  the  Tenth, 
tells  this  interesting  story  of  the  battle  as  he  and  his  men  saw  it: 

Kinston  was  on  the  further  side  of  the  Neuse,  on  eleva 
ted  ground  and  about  half  a  mile  from  the  bridge.  Between 
us  and  the  bridge,  and  less  than  half  a  mile  from  it,  was  a 
dense,  heavily  wooded  swamp,  passable,  as  was  supposed, 
only  by  a  narrow  road  cut  through  it.  No  attempt  was  made 
to  pass  this  swamp  by  the  road,  for  it  was  enfiladed  by  the 


DEC.  14,  '62. 


KlNSTON. 


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168       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

enemy's   artillery,   on  the   opposite  side   of  the.  river.     The 
swamp  itself  was  fully  exposed  to  the  fire  of  the  same  guns. 
Close  up  to  this  swamp,  on  the  opposite  side,  the  rebels  held 
a  good  position,  fairly  well  protected  by  a  knoll  covered  with 
scrub-oak.  They  had  also  garrisoned  an  old  church  on  their 
left.     In  this  position  they  had  a  small  brigade  of  infantry 
commanded  by  Colonel  Mallett  of  North  Carolina.     On  the 
other  side  of  the  river  they  had  four  guns   so   located   that 
they  could  sweep  the  bridge,  and  not  more  than  twenty  feet 
from  it.     Below  the  bridge  they  had  six  or  seven  heavier  guns, 
all  entrenched  and  properly  supported.    Wessells'  brigade  had 
the  advance.     Two  of  his  regiments  were  ordered  to  penetrate 
the  swamp  on  the  right  of  the  road,  the  other  four  on  the  left. 
The    Forty-fifth     Massachusetts    of    Amory's    brigade    was 
ordered  to  support  on  the  right  and  the  Twenty-third  Massa 
chusetts  on  the  left.     The  remainder  of  Amory's  brigade  was 
held  in  reserve  in  the  rear  of  the  Twenty-third.     Our  artillery 
was  in  position  about  200  yards  in  the  rear,  supported  by 
Lee's  brigade  in  "close  column  by  divisions"  on  the  right  of 
the   road.      Stevenson's    brigade   was   in    marching    column 
three-fourths  of  a  mile  in  the  rear.     Despite  heavy  firing  of 
musketry  and  artillery  for  more  than  three  hours,  the  enemy 
still  held  his  position  behind  the  swamp  and  drove  back  the 
seven  regiments  sent  against  him.     Up  to  this  time,  no  one 
of  the  Burnside  regiments  had  taken  any  active  part,  but  now 
the  Tenth  Connecticut    of   Stevenson's   brigade,    Lieut. -col. 
Robert  Leggett  commanding,  was  ordered  to  the  front.     As 
it  passed  Lee's  brigade,  the  Twenty-fifth  and  Twenty-seventh 
Massachusetts,  with  whose  men  those  of  the  Tenth  were  on 
the  best  of  terms,  cheered  loudly  and  offered  lots  of  advice 
and  promised  to  help  if  needed.     The  Tenth  formed  on  the 
right  of  the  road,  in  the  rear  of  the  three  regiments  that  had 
been  engaged  already.    General  Foster,  in  person,  had  ordered 
the  regiment  to  pass  the  swamp,  to  find  the  enemy  and  give 
an   account  of  him.      .....     The   regiment  passed 

through  the  swamp  as  rapidly  as  possible,  exposed  to  the 
artillery  of  the  enemy,  and  deafened  by  the  firing  from  the 
Union  guns  near  at  hand.  The  Tenth  passed  over  the  men 
of  Wessells'  brigade  as  it  lay  in  line  of  battle,  meeting  no 
opposition  until  it  reached  the  top  of  the  scrub-oak  knoll, 
where  it  encountered  the  concentrated  fire  of  the  whole  rebel 
force.  It  was  a  hurricane  of  lead.  While  officers  and  men 
went  down  by  the  dozens,  the  regiment  did  not  flinch,  return- 


DEC.  15,  '62.  KINSTOX.  169 

ing  the  fire  vigorously  for  ten  minutes  when,  the  enemy  show 
ing  signs  of  confusion,  the  Tenth  dashed  foiward,  giving  the 
rebels  the  naked  bayonet.  The  rout  was  complete  and  the 
Confederates  made  for  the  bridge  in  wild  confusion,  soon 
covering  it  with  a  bewildering  array  of  men  in  gray.  Seeing 
that  the  men,  on  crossing  the  bridge,  were  forming  behind 
breastworks  on  the  other  side,  the  Tenth  halted  and  poured 
a  deadly  fire  directly  into  the  struggling  mass  on  the  bridge. 
This  had  the  effect  of  forcing  those,  still  remaining  on  this 
side,  to  throw  away  their  muskets  and  to  take  refuge  under 
the  river's  bank.  The  enemy  had  fired  the  bridge,  it  being 
smeared  with  turpentine,  in  his  crossing,  but  this  was  extin 
guished  by  the  formation  of  a  bucket  brigade,  using  the 
artillery  buckets  of  the  batteries.  Meantime  the  fire  of  our 
artillery  on  the  entrenchments  opposite  was  so  strong  that 
the  rebels  withdrew,  those  still  on  this  side  of  the  river  sur 
rendering.  Notwithstanding  the  putting  out  of  the  fire,  there 
was  enough  left  to  discharge  one  of  the  thrown-away  muskets, 
thereby  killing  Colonel  Chas.  0.  Gray  of  the  Ninety-sixth 

New  York,  who  had  ridden  up  to  see  the  retreat 

Two  or  three  regiments  were  allowed  to  cross  the 
river  and  to  take  possession  of  Kinston,  the  place  being  filled 
with  smoke,  arising  from  burning  cotton  and  corn,  the  same 
ignited  by  the  enemy  in  his  retiring.  The  bridge  having  been 
repaired  the  entire  army  crossed,  and  passing  through  the 
town  camped  in  the  fields  beyond.  In  the  morning,  instead 
of  pursuing  the  foe,  the  army  recrossed  the  river  and  burned 
the  bridge,  to  preserve  which  so  much  pains  had  been  taken 
the  day  before. 

In  the  Kinston  telegraph  office  General  Foster  found  news 
of  the  disaster  at  Fredericksburg,  and  that  unlimited  re-enforce 
ments  could  and  would  be  sent  to  the  relief  of  the  Confederates, 
a  condition  that  it  was  well  for  our  General  to  understand, 
and  a  knowledge  of  it  was  full  compensation  for  the  derange 
ment  of  his  original  plans,  which  were  to  permit  the  rebels  to 
burn  the  bridge  in  retiring,  thus  confining  them  to  the  northern 
side  of  the  stream,  while  the  Union  troops  would  proceed 
directly  towards  Goldsboro.  The  morning  of  Monday,  the 
15th,  beheld  the  army  again  on  the  march,  and  there  was  all 
the  more  reason  for  activity,  since  the  fact  that  Lee  was  send- 


170        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

ing  help  would  require  the  utmost  speed  to  accomplish  the 
purposes  of  the  expedition.  The  march  was  a  long  and 
tedious  one;  the  brigade  (Wessells'),  which  was  in  advance  on 
the  14th,  was  now  in  the  rear,  and  Lee's  brigade  moved  up  a 
number.  Owing  to  narrow  roads  and  their  crowded  condition, 
it  was  not  the  easiest  of  tasks  for  our  regiment  and  its  associates 
to  get  to  their  place.  However,  the  longest  day  has  its  end, 
and  that  of  the  15th  came  after  a  weary  tramp  of  15  miles 
along  the  right  or  south  bank  of  the  Neuse.  The  camp  was 
on  a  widely  extended  plain,  so  wind-swept  that  it  was  with 
difficulty  that  the  men  could  keep  their  blankets  over  them 
selves.  The  days  of  these  marches  were  like  those  of  middle 
autumn  in  New  England,  while  the  nights  certainly  missed  the 
sun. 

WHITEHALL. 

Tuesday,  the  16th,  was  to  bring  another  battle  name  into 
note,  though  the  "  boys  "  didn't  know  it  as  they  plugged 
steadily  forward,  but  once  more  the  part  of  the  Fifth  in  the 
affair  is  best  told  in  the  following  frank  manner  by  a  private, 
writing  to  his  sister: 

Before  noon,  the  heavy  report  ahead,  soon  followed  by 
others,  indicated  that  the  "ball"  was  once  more  opened.  The 
reports  increased  in  number  and  rapidity,  mingled  with  the 
sharp  crack  of  musketry,  showing  that  quite  a  brisk  engage 
ment  was  taking  place  ahead,  and  that  there  was  some  pros 
pect  of  our  taking  another  lesson  in  warfare.  The  ambulances 
soon  began  to  return,  bringing  the  wounded,  and  I  think  this 
of  all  sights  would  be  apt  to  give  a  sickening  sensation  to  a 
soldier  going  on  the  battlefield  for  the  first  time.  But  that, 
like  every  other  feeling,  would  wear  off  after  a  while.  The 
scene  of  the  battle  was  at  a  place  called  Whitehall,  where  it 
seems  the  rebels  had  quite  a  large  force,  and  where  it  was 
reported  some  rebel  gunboats  were  being  built.  Our  first 
brigade  only,  I  think,  was  engaged.  Of  the  rebel  force,  I  can 
form  no  adequate  idea.  Before  the  engagement  was  over  our 
brigade  received  orders  to  go  to  the  front.  Accordingly  we 
passed  along  the  road  on  the  side  of  a  hill  overlooking  the 
whole  affair,  and  therefore  we  had  a  fine  opportunity  of 


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172        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

observing  the  disposition  of  our  forces.  As  we  passed  in  the 
rear  of  the  batteries,  the  bullets  whizzed  over  our  heads  quite 
briskly.  One  of  the  men  in  our  company,  Thomas  Eldridge, 
was  wounded  in  the  leg  by  one  of  them,  the  ball  first  going 
through  the  overcoat  and  blouse  of  the  man  standing  next  to 
him.  Three  others  in  the  regiment  were  wounded  here.  This 
was  really  the  first  time  we  were  under  fire.  Soon  after  we 
had  passed,  the  firing  ceased  and  we  learned  that  the  rebels 
had  been  whipped. 

So  much  for  Whitehall  as  the  unsophisticated  boy  saw  and 
heard  it.  Once  more  let  us  turn  to  the  story  as  told  by 
General  Otis  of  the  Tenth  Connecticut: 

When  our  brigade  was  about  four  miles  from  the  place, 
a  heavy  fire  of  artillery  was  opened  and  kept  up  continuously. 
We  pushed  forward  rapidly  and  were  soon  met  by  General 
Foster's  orderly,  Schroeder,  with  orders  for  us  to  hasten  for 
ward,  as  we  were  needed  at  the  front.  We  lost  no  time  in 
getting  there,  but  when  we  arrived,  we  wondered  what  all  of 
the  hurry  was  about.  An  unbridged  and  unfordable  river  was 
between  us  and  the  enemy.  They  lined  the  banks  with  infan 
try,  well  protected  by  large  trees,  in  whose  branches  many 
sharpshooters  were  concealed.  Over  thirty  pieces  of  artillery 
were  thundering  at  them  from  our  side,  to  which  their  single 
battery  was  replying  with  spirit.  Of  course  the  advantage 
was  with  them,  since  they  were  protected,  while  our  troops 
fought  in  the  open  field.  Our  superiority  in  artillery  was  not, 
under  the  circumstances,  of  the  slightest  advantage  to  us. 
With  the  exception  of  the  Twenty-fifth,  the  Massachusetts 
boys  had  little  to  do  at  Kinstoii,  but  some  of  them  were  in  for 
it  here.  When  we  arrived  on  the  field,  the  Ninth  New  Jersey 
and  the  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  of  Amory's  brigade,  and 
100  men  from  the  Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts,  Lee's  brigade, 
were  deployed  along  the  river's  bank,  returning  the  fire  of  the 
enemy  opposite.  The  remainder  of  Lee's  brigade  was  drawn 
up  in  support  of  the  artillery.  The  Twenty-fourth,  Forty- 
fourth  and  other  regiments  were  moving  to  different  positions, 
which  they  reached  without  serious  loss,  but  the  Twenty- 
third  Massachusetts,  Colonel  Chambers,  advanced  deliber 
ately  in  line  of  battle  across  an  open  field  to  the  river  bank, 
under  a  galling  fire,  which  they  continued  to  return  with  great 
coolness  until  they  had  expended  their  ammunition,  and  lost 
sixty-two  in  killed  and  wounded.  Their  conduct  was  mag- 


DEC.  16,  '62.  WHITEHALL.  173 

nificent,  but  it  yielded  them  no  trophies.  An  impassable  river 
separated  them  from  the  enemy,  and  neither  arms,  colors  nor 
prisoners  could  be  captured.  The  Forty-fourth  lost  twenty- 
two  killed  and  wounded,  the  Twenty-fifth  had  several 
wounded,  and  some  loss  fell  on  Amory's  brigade,  but  the 
great  loss  of  the  day  fell  on  the  Twenty-third. 

General  Otis's  regiment,  the  Tenth  Connecticut,  was  ordered 
so  far  to  the  left  that  they  found  no  enemy  opposite,  but 
with  characteristic  Yankee  industry,  anxious  for  something 
to  do,  four  of  their  pioneers  swam  the  river,  its  waters  being 
ice  cold,  having  their  axes  strapped  upon  their  backs,  and 
commenced  felling  trees  into  the  stream.  Others  were  doing 
the  same  thing  on  our  side  of  the  river,  and  a  large  detail  was 
sent  to  pull  down  a  house  near  by  to  secure  timbers  for  the 
equipping  of  a  bridge,  which  would  have  been  evolved  in  short 
order  had  not  General  Stevenson  ridden  up  and  told  them 
they  were  a  bit  previous,  since  General  Foster  did  not  wish 
to  cross  the  river  there,  hence  history  is  silent  concerning  the 
well-planned  bridge  which  never  was  built.  Another  incident 
of  Whitehall  is  told  by  E.  A.  Perry  of  "  I  ":  "  On  the  bank 
of  the  river,  opposite  to  our  position,  were  two  partially  con 
structed  ironclads.  To  destroy  them  was  one  of  the  objects 
of  the  expedition.  A  delay  was  made  to  do  this.  A  daring 
private,  named  Butler,  but  of  what  regiment  I  do  not  know, 
plunged  into  the  stream  and  swam  to  the  burning  bridge,  and 
securing  a  torch,  attempted  to  fire  the  vessels.  Immediately 
he  became  the  target  for  rebel  sharpshooters,  and  was  driven 
off  without  accomplishing  his  object.  Again  as  he  swam  back, 
he  was  shot  at  by  the  enemy,  but  he  escaped  unharmed.  The 
gunboats  were  battered  into  ruins  by  our  artillery. " 

(The  soldier  was  Henry  Butler,  Co.  C,  Third  New  York 
Cavalry.) 

After  this  episode  by  the  riverside,  the  march  proceeded  for 
several  miles,  ending  at  sunset,  when  there  came  the  well- 
earned  bivouac,  where  after  cooking  coffee  and  fresh  pork  or 
whatever  kind  of  meat  the  soldier  may  have  foraged,  and 


174        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.?  NINE  MONTHS. 

baking  the  potatoes  which  some  frugal  North  Carolinian  had 
stored  up  for  the  winter,  each  man  wrapped  the  drapery 
of  his  couch  (in  this  case  just  a  woolen  blanket)  about  him 
and  lay  down  to  dreams  pleasant  or  otherwise. 

Certain  it  was  that  each  one  was  tired  enough  to  enjoy  the 
chance.  The  night  passed  all  too  quickly  for  these  weary 
mortals  and,  seemingly  very  soon,  came  the  reveille,  a  call 
to  action  again.  Breakfast  eaten,  at  8.  a.m.  the  command 
"  Forward"  was  heard  along  the  lines,  and  Foster's  army 
advanced  still  further  into  Rebeldom.  It  was  noon  or  there 
about  when  artillery  firing  was  heard  ahead.  Again  a  regiment 
al  scribe  is  quoted,  he  telling  what  came  under  his  observation: 


GOLDSBORO. 

It  seems  that  our  advance  came  out  of  the  woods  onto  a 
small  hill,  whence  a  few  rebels  were  seen  across  the  clearing, 
but  a  few  shots  from  our  battery  sent  them  "flying"  into  the 
woods.  This,  as  we  afterwards  learned,  was  our  destination, 
our  purpose  being  to  destroy  the  railroad  bridge  which  here 
spans  the  Neuse,  and  also  to  break  up  the  telegraph  commu 
nication,  Goldsboro  being  an  important  point  on  the  Wilming 
ton  &  Weldon  R.  R.  I  send  you  [his  sister]  enclosed  a  rough 
plan  of  the  scene  of  the  fight,  thinking  it  may  aid  you  in  under 
standing  the  disposition  of  the  forces.  Our  regiment  first 
entered  the  woods  on  the  left  of  the  road,  with  the  Twenty- 
fifth  Massachusetts  nearly  opposite  the  house,  the  other  troops 
being  posted  in  the  field,  facing  towards  the  figure  "3"  where 
the  rebels  were  first  seen.  After  firing  awhile,  our  infantry 
and  artillery  supporting  them,  were  advanced  towards  the 
railroad,  about  where  you  see  the  figure  "5,"  our  regiment 
being  formed  in  the  rear  of  Morrison's  (N.  Y.)  Battery,  which 
was  stationed  where  the  number  "2"  is  seen,  probably  intended 
to  prevent  any  flank  movement  of  the  enemy.  We  were 
almost  out  of  range,  though  the  shot  occasionally  struck  near 
us.  One  shell  struck  on  the  railroad  track,  close  to  General 
Lee.  He  came  down  by  our  regiment  laughing,  and  saying, 
"It  was  coming  pretty  close."  The  rebels,  however,  were  soon 
driven  away,  and  the  bridge  having  been  set  fire  to  and  the 
telegraph  wire  cut,  the  troops  went  to  work  and  tore  up  the 


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176        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

railroad  track  in  the  quickest  if  not  the  most  scientific  style. 
Whole  sections  of  the  track,  sleepers  still  attached,  were 
tipped  up  and  thrown  down  the  embankment,  so  twisted 
and  warped  as  to  be  of  no  further  use  to  the  enemy;  the 
latter  condition  being  effected  by  piling  up  the  sleepers  and 
whatever  other  woody  material  that  could  be  found,  and 
after  laying  the  rails  above,  setting  fire  to  the  combustible 
stuff. 

All  this  being  done,  we  were  told  by  General  Foster  that 
our  object  was  attained,  and  that  wTe  were  to  return  at  once 
to  Newbern,  our  brigade  bringing  up  the  rear,  and  we  began 
to  move  off  at  once.  All  of  the  regiments  except  our  own 
had  started,  and  the  last  battery  had  limbered  up  and  was 
just  about  taking  its  position  ahead  of  us,  when  the  rebels, 
numbering,  I  should  think,  one  regiment,  came  out  of  the  woods 
cheering,  and  bearing  what  appeared  to  be  a  flag  of  truce. 
Some  of  our  cavalry  went  down  towards  them,  but  were 
fired  into.  The  point  where  they  came  out  was  near  the 
number  "4."  Our  battery  was  run  back  and  took  its  position 
(it  is  marked  on  the  diagram)  and  our  regiment  formed  in  its 
rear  for  support,  the  Third  being  placed  a  little  to  the  rear 
and  right  of  us.  The  enemy  came  across  the  track  and 
advanced  where  you  see  the  word  "  rebel  "  with  quite  a 
good  front,  seeming  about  to  charge  on  the  battery,  evidently 
thinking  that  most  of  our  troops  had  gone  back,  as  a  small 
hill  hid  them  from  sight.  The  battery  immediately  opened  on 
them,  and,  advancing  as  they  were  with  the  Stars  and  Bars 
in  their  midst  (which,  by  the  way,  was  the  first  rebel  flag  I 
had  seen),  it  had  a  fine  chance  to  fire  at  them.  The  first  shots 
must  have  told  terribly  in  their  ranks.  We  could  see  great 
gaps  made  by  the  grape  and  canister  as  they  were  hurled 
among  them  at  short  range.  After  the  first  few  shots  they 
began  to  waver,  and  the  battery  keeping  up  its  fire,  their 
colors  having  been  shot  to  the  ground,  they  broke,  and  fled  to 
the  cover  of  the  woods  as  fast  as  possible. 

Just  before  this  another  battery  (Belger's  Rhode  Island) 
had  got  into  position  behind  the  Third  Regiment,  and  both 
regiments  had  lain  down  to  allow  the  firing  over  us.  The 
artillery  continued  firing,  while  the  rebels  remained  in  sight, 
and  as  it  was  ordered  to  fire  low,  the  balls  could  be  seen  to 
strike  the  sand  and  skip  along.  Meanwhile  two  or  three  other 
rebel  regiments  of  infantry  had  come  around  on  our  left  with 
the  intention  of  outflanking  us,  but  they  were  promptly  met 


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by  the  Twenty-fifth,  Twenty-seventh  and  Forty-sixth  Massa 
chusetts  of  our  brigade,  which  was  the  only  Union  brigade  in 
the  fight.  They  were  posted  near  the  figure  "6." 

The  rebel  troops  which  had  been  repulsed  on  our  right, 
having  reformed,  I  suppose,  came  along  that  point  of  woods 
marked  "7,"  with  the  intention  of  firing  down  upon  us  from  the 
trees,  but  they  were  seen,  and  the  Third  Massachusetts, 
being  nearer,  and  more  nearly  facing  the  woods,  was  ordered 
to  fire  into  them,  and  for  a  few  minutes  the  bullets  whizzed 
over  us  pretty  lively.  Nearly  all  the  time  we  were  lying  on 
the  ground,  the  grape  and  shells  from  the  enemy  had  been 
dropping  over  and  around  us  and  several  in  the  regiment  had 
been  wounded,  though  none  of  them  were  from  our  company. 
By  this  time  it  was  nearly  dark  and  the  "Rebs,"  finding  they 
could  accomplish  nothing,  retreated,  no  doubt  thinking  they 
had  caught  a  Tartar. 

I  forgot  to  mention  that  as  we  first  formed  behind  the 
batterj'  we  had  orders  to  fix  bayonets,  and  if  they  had  advanced 
farther  we  should  have  had  a  chance  to  charge.  The  rebels 
having  been  driven  away,  we  had  started  to  overtake  the 
other  brigades  before  halting  for  the  night.  The  little  stream, 
marked  U8,"  when  we  came  to  the  field  did  not  come  to  the  top 
of  our  boots,  but  our  troops  had  destroyed  the  saw-mill  just 
above,  and  thereby  let  the  water  down,  so  that  when  we  came 
to  it  on  our  return,  it  was  running  a  swift  stream,  waist-deep. 
We  thought  it  rather  cold,  but  there  was  no  alternative  to 
wading  it,  and  so  in  we  went,  the  Twenty-seventh  covering 
the  rear  and  the  Fifth  was  next  ahead.  We  marched  slowly 
until  we  reached  our  camping  ground  of  the  night  before, 
where  we  halted.  The  woods  along  the  way  were  one  contin 
ual  fire,  made  by  the  troops  in  advance  of  us,  and  before  we 
got  to  camp  our  clothes  were  nearly  dry.  The  troops  we  had 
fought,  we  heard,  were  from  South  Carolina,  and  had  just 
arrived  in  the  cars,  a  train  of  which  was  approaching  when 
the  bridge  was  set  fire  to.  Undoubtedly,  had  we  been  a  day 
later,  the  fighting  had  been  harder. 

Another  private  of  the  Fifth  narrates  that  as  General  Foster 
and  staff  galloped  swiftly  to  the  front,  the  Fifth  was  ordered 
forward  at  double-quick  to  take  its  place  on  the  left  of  the 
battle-line.  Crossing  a  small  stream,  called  "  Sleepy  Creek," 
with  high  banks,  but  only  a  few  inches  of  water,  line  was  formed 
in  the  woods.  While  waiting  there,  one  of  the  boys  in  Co. 
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178        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

"  I  "  caused  a  general  laugh,  for,  when  all  were  expecting  a 
rain  of  shot  and  shell,  this  fellow  was  seen  climbing  one  of  the 
tallest  of  the  pine  trees  near  the  line.  The  major,  catching 
sight  of  this,  ordered  him  down.  Though  he  obeyed,  it  was 
with  an  injured  air,  exclaiming,  "  I  want  to  see  the  rebels/' 
a  wish  which  was  soon  gratified.  Soon  after  the  Third 
Massachusetts  was  detached  from  the  line  to  assist  in  tearing 
up  the  railroad  tracks,  so  that  our  regiment  came  out  of  the 
woods  and  was  formed  on  the  open,  almost  at  right  angles  to 
its  former  position.  At  this  moment  Lieut. -colonel  Boyd 
came  down  the  track  and  ordered  Co.  D  to  march  forward  to 
defend  the  men  who  were  tearing  up  the  track.  The  rest  of 
the  regiment  had  nothing  to  do  but  patiently  wait.  It  was 
not  a  very  long  time,  seemingly,  but  the  track  was  torn  up 
for  a  mile,  the  bridge  across  the  Neuse  destroyed,  and  with 
cheers  for  the  success  of  the  expedition,  we  were  turning  our 
faces  homeward,  the  other  regiments  having  already  left  the 
field.  We  were  about  to  recross  Sleepy  Creek,  leaving  the 
battery  (Riggs')  still  in  position  on  the  hill,  when  our  ears 
were  greeted  with  the  rebel  yell.  Coming  to  our  ears  for  the 
first  time,  it  was  a  great  surprise,  being  more  of  a  screech  than 
an  honest  yell  or  cheer.  The  waiting  in  line,  unable  to  return 
the  shots,  was  more  trying  than  active  engagement.  One  of 
the  men  exclaiming,  "  I'm  hit,"  dropped  his  gun  and  made 
for  the  rear,  but  very  soon  returned,  saying,  "  Well,  boys,  I 
guess  I'm  not  much  hurt  after  all."  A  grape  shot  had  touched 
his  arm,  grazing  his  sleeve  and  leaving  a  scorched  trail.  The 
soldier  survived  this  peril  to  die  of  yellow  fever,  the  following 
summer.  As  an  illustration  of  the  faithful  soldier  who  sought 
his  place,  even  in  the  front,  was  furnished  when  his  comrades 
heard  the  remark,  "  Boys,  I  am  glad  that  I've  found  you  at 
last."  It  was  the  company  cook  who,  encumbered  with 
camp-pots,  kettles,  etc.,  had  sought  his  fellows  until,  finding 
them,  he  dropped  in  among  them  as  though  a  battlefield  were 
a  place  of  refuge.  The  day,  a  mid-winter  one,  was  cold,  and 
a  certain  corporal  felt  the  lack  of  warmth  so  much  that  he 


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went  back  to  a  rail-fence  which  was  burning,  this  in  spite  of 
the  commands  of  his  lieutenant,  ostensibly  to  get  warm.  He 
didn't  stop  at  the  fence,  but  went  further.  The  act  was  never 
forgotten  and  months  afterwards  in  the  silence  of  the  night, 
a  voice  might  be  heard  crying,  "Corporal  A  -  — !  Corporal 
A  -  —I"  When  the  corporal  had  been  roused  and  had  replied, 
the  query  would  come,  "  Got  warm  yet?  " 

For  a  clear  description  of  the  entire  field,  recourse  is  once 
more  had  to  the  story  as  told  by  General  Otis  of  the  Tenth 
Connecticut: 

Lee's  brigade  had  the  advance,  with  the  Twenty-fifth 
Massachusetts  as  skirmishers.  About  noon  they  struck  the 
rebel  skirmish  line  and  drove  it  back  on  the  main  body  at  the 
Wilmington  &  Weldon  Railroad  bridge,  over  the  Neuse 
River,  near  Goldsboro.  To  destroy  this  bridge  and  thus  pre 
vent  railroad  communication  between  Lee's  army  and  the 
south  part  of  the  Confederacy,  in  case  of  Lee's  defeat  at  Fred- 
ericksburg,  was  the  prime  object  of  the  expedition.  The 
enemy's  force  on  our  side  of  the  river  consisted  of  a  brigade 
of  infantry  and  a  battery  under  General  Clingman.  As  the 
enemy  was  forced  back,  the  Third,  Twenty-fifth  and  Twenty- 
seventh  Massachusetts  took  a  commanding  position  on  the 
right,  where  they  were  joined  by  the  Ninth  New  Jersey  and 
the  Seventeenth  Massachusetts,  with  the  Fifth  and  Forty- 
sixth  on  the  left.  Wessells'  troops  were  beginning  to  arrive, 
so  the  line  pushed  forward  and  drove  Clingman's  force  back 
towards  the  bridge  in  confusion.  His  efforts  to  rally  his  men 
were  futile,  the  most  of  them  crowding  over  the  bridge  in  dis 
order,  while  some  of  them  concealed  themselves  along  the 
bank,  which  was  covered  with  trees  and  underbrush  on  our 
side.  Across  the  river  they  had  stationed  Starr's  Battery, 
so  as  to  enfilade  the  bridge  and  command  quite  a  stretch  of 
the  railroad  over  which  our  troops  must  pass  to  capture  and 
burn  the  bridge.  This  battery  was  supported  by  a  brigade 
of  infantry,  while  two  other  regiments,  with  Robertson's 
South  Carolina  brigade,  were  stationed  so  as  to  cover  the 
approaches  to  the  bridge  and  the  river  bank.  Evans's  brigade 
arrived  from  Whitehall  in  time  to  assist  them.  Adjutant 
Mann  of  the  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  and  several  others 
attempted  to  approach  the  bridge,  but  all  were  killed  or 
wounded,  and  the  chances  for  burning  it  seemed  desperate. 


180        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

The  necessity  for  burning  it  had  passed  with  Burnside's 
defeat,  but  it  was  determined  that  our  expedition  should  be 
a  complete  success,  so  nearly  our  entire  strength  of  artillery 
was  placed  in  a  commanding  position  and  opened  on  the 
enemy.  Under  the  cover  of  its  fire,  Lieut.  Graham  of  the 
Twenty-third  New  York  Battery  and  Private  Wm.  Semons 
of  Co.  E,  Ninth  New  Jersey,  succeeded  in  reaching  and  setting 
fire  to  the  bridge.  This  seemed  to  drive  the  enemy  wild. 
Regardless  of  the  thirty  or  forty  pieces  of  artillery  raining 
shot  and  shell  upon  them,  they  enfiladed  the  road  with  a  fire 
that  it  was  impossible  to  pass  through,  so  Graham  and  Se 
mons  threw  themselves  from  the  abutments  into  the  bushes 
and  succeeded  in  making  their  way  back  in  safety. 
We  then  had  orders  to  move  back  on  the  road 
to  Newbern,  but  we  had  not  marched  more  than  two  miles 
when  a  furious  artillery  fire  broke  out  in  our  rear.  The 
Tenth  halted,  and  soon  an  orderly  came  riding  at  topmost 
speed  and  looking  very  much  frightened,  with  an  order  for 
us  to  return.  We  countermarched,  and  at  double-quick  were 
soon  back  with  the  rear  guard,  but  too  late  to  be  of  any  ser 
vice  to  them.  Lee's  brigade,  with  Morrison's,  Belger's  and 
Riggs'  batteries,  had  been  left  as  a  rear  guard,  occupying  the 
slope  of  a  hill  not  far  from  the  railroad,  but  were  making 
preparations  to  withdraw.  Morrison's  Battery,  supported 
by  the  Third,  Fifth  and  Forty-sixth  Massachusetts,  was  still 
in  position;  the  other  batteries  were  preparing  to  retire,  the 
Twenty-fifth  was  on  the  way  to  the  rear  and  the  Twenty- 
seventh  making  coffee,  when  suddenly  the  well-known  rebel 
yell  filled  the  air,  followed  by  the  roar  and  crash  of  rebel 
artillery  and  three  double  lines  of  infantry  under  Evans  were 
seen  charging  up  the  slope  to  capture  Morrison's  guns.  Lee's 
three  regiments  in  line  pressed  up  to  support  Morrison,  whose 
guns  were  already  cutting  gaps  in  the  rebel  lines.  The  Twenty- 
seventh  dropped  their  coffee  cups,  and  taking  their  muskets, 
closed  promptly  up  on  the  left.  Belger,  who  would  put  his 
guns  nearer  to  the  enemy  than  any  battery  commander  I 
ever  saw.  swung  his  pieces  into  position  to  enfilade  the  enemy's 
lines  as  they  advanced,  and  Pickett  of  the  Twenty-fifth  with 
out  waiting  for  orders  countermarched  at  double-quick  to 
support  him.  General  Clingman  had  crossed  over  from  Golds- 
boro  unobserved,  by  a  county  bridge,  which  by  a  strange 
oversight  had  been  left  standing,  at  the  head  of  two  heavy 
brigades  of  infantry  and  two  batteries,  and  had  made  this 


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182        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

serious  attack  before  his  presence  on  this  side  the  river  was 
known,  but  the  steady  fire  of  five  Massachusetts  regiments, 
together  with  the  execution  by  the  artillery,  soon  sent  the 
Confederates  hurrying  back,  leaving  their  dead  and  wounded 
in  great  numbers  strewing  the  ground  over  which  they  had 
advanced. 

While  the  foregoing  was  happening  to  Evans  and  his  men, 
Clingman  himself  had  led  two  regiments  and  a  battery  to 
turn  our  flank,  but  Evans  having  been  disposed  of,  Lee  turned 
Belger's  and  Riggs'  batteries  against  them,  and  Clingman  too 
was  driven  back  in  disorder,  this  ending  all  overt  acts  on 
the  part  of  the  Confederates.  The  behavior  of  the  rear  guard 
under  Lee  was  magnificent,  and  it  received  credit,  indirectly, 
from  Clingman  himself,  who  said  in  his  report:  "We  were 
swept  by  heavy  batteries,  supported  by  masses  of  infantry. 
Our  forces  advanced  courageously,  but  were  cut  down  by 
a  fire  of  grape  and  canister  not  possible  to  withstand.  But 
for  this  loss  thus  sustained,  we  should  have  had  the  satisfac 
tion  of  knowing  that,  with  a  vastly  inferior  force,  we  had 
driven  the  enemy  from  a  strong  position  and  obliged  their 
whole  army  to  retreat,  almost  without  any  loss  to  us."  This 
was  equivalent  to  saying  that  if  our  rear  guard  had  offered 
no  resistance,  he  would  have  won  a  victory.  As  it  was, 
Lee's  brigade  routed  him  completely  with  considerably  less 
force  than  he  brought  into  action.  On  our  side,  it  was  the 
best  managed  engagement  of  the  campaign.  In  it  the  enemy 
were  taught  the  difference  between  charging  a  strong  position 
and  waiting  in  such  a  position  to  be  charged.  Acting  on  the 
offensive,  we  almost  always  had  to  attack  well  selected  and 
strongly  fortified  positions.  By  some  the  enemy's  loss  was 
put  as  high  as  800,  by  others  as  low  as  500;  it  was  undoubt 
edly  higher  than  the  lower  figure.  Lee's  loss  was  small,  not 
exceeding  twenty-five  killed  and  wounded. 

Returning  to  the  story  of  the  day  as  told  by  survivors  of  the 
Fifth,  it  appears  that  the  popular  notion  then  that  the  cutting 
of  the  dam,  thus  raising  the  waters  of  Sleepy  Creek,  was  an 
act  of  the  enemy,  was  entirely  wrong,  the  same  having  been 
done  by  order  of  General  Foster,  to  hinder  any  pursuit  that 
the  Confederates  might  institute.  Whatever  the  cause,  all 
agree  that  the  waters  were  cold  and  the  imperative  bath  far 
from  agreeable.  "  We  plunged  in,  carrying  guns,  haversacks, 


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cartridge-boxes,  etc.,  high  over  our  heads.  The  comfort  of 
crossing  was  not  enhanced  by  the  occasional  charging  through 
our  line  of  a  log  or  rail;  the  current  was  so  swift  that  we  were 
borne  down  stream  some  distance.  I  had  hardly  stepped  into 
the  water  when  I  felt  my  bayonet  clutched  by  some  one  behind. 
He  had  a  strong  grip,  whoever  he  was,  and  he  kept  his  hold 
till  the  further  bank  was  gained.  He  proved  to  be  the  Lieu 
tenant  in  command  of  the  company  next  to  ours,  and  ho  was 
gentleman  enough  to  express  his  thanks  for  the  service  thus 
rendorod.  Ho  was  so  light  in  weight  that  he  declared  he 
could  not  have  got  across  without  my  help.  It  was  a  lucky 
thing  for  us  that  the  regiments  ahead  of  us  had  set  fire  to  the 
trees,  so  that  we  marched  through  a  double  line  of  illuminations 
till  we  reached  the  site  of  last  night's  camp." 

Geo.  E.  Mitchell  of  "  B  "  was  said  to  be  the  shortest  man 
in  the  regiment;  if  those  of  average  stature  had  a  hard  time 
in  crossing,  how  much  more  difficult  must  it  have  been  for 
him?  He  said,  himself,  that  he  walked  on  tip-toes  with  his 
chin  up,  utterly  careless  as  to  gun  and  cartridges,  and  so  went 
through  to  find  his  Lieutenant  Harrington,  moving  up  and 
down  the  bank  of  the  creek,  shouting,  "  Has  anyone  seen 
Mitchell?"  The  thoroughly  saturated  bodily  presence  of 
the  future  Mayor  of  Chelsea  was  a  grateful  revelation  to  the 
anxious  officer. 

THE  RETURN. 

Fully  a  week  away  from  Newborn,  rations  were  growing- 
scan",  and  "almost  supperless  to  bed"  was  the  fate  of  the 
majority  of  these  tired  soldiers.  The  baggage  train  was  far 
ahead  :  ince  Lee's  brigade  was  again  in  the  rear,  and  a  long 
way  too.  It  was  necessary  to  live  on  the  country,  but  what 
could  we  expect  after  the  thousands  equally  hungry  had 
foraged  before  us?  However  plenty  sweet  potatoe  >  may 
have  been  to  the  head  of  the  column,  there  were  very  few  left 
fo  us.  A  few  cattle  were  found  and  killed,  but  he  most  of 
them  had  been  found  by  the  earlier  marchers.  The  meat 


184         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.   M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

ration  of  about  two  cubi ;  'nches  per  man,  that  night,  was  far 
from  satisfying.  However,  it  required  more  than  one  day's 
fast  to  quench  the  ardor  of  the  men  who  had  heard  and  seen 
so  much  that  day.  Thursday,  the  18th,  revealed  the  exceed 
ing  leanness  of  the  commissary's  cupboard;  that  of  the  tradi 
tional  Mother  Hubbard  could  scarcely  have  been  more  bare. 
Whatever  the  officer's  disposition,  he  had  absolutely  nothing 
for  his  men.  Some  of  them  were  ready  to  breakfast  from  the 
raw  turnips  in  a  nearby  field,  but  to  such  food  there  was  an 
early  limit.  Since  there  was  nothing  to  cook  and  eat,  if  they 
halted,  it  seemed  best  to  all  to  forge  ahead  as  rapidly  as 
possible,  and  this  they  did,  with  just  a  little  coffee  and  now 
and  then  a  sweet  potato,  which  had  to  be  shared  wi  h  hungry 
neighbors. 

In  the  edge  of  evening,  there  came  a  little  relief  when  a 
cache  of  more  than  a  thousand  bushels  of  sweet  potatoes  was  found 
and  utilized.  Sharp  eyes  had  discovered  what  those  of  the 
morn  had  overlooked.  One  thoughtful  writer  comments  on 
the  suffering  this  inroad  must  have  induced  among  the  dwellers 
a]ong  the  route:  "  In  our  need,  we  must  have  left  many  a  house 
hold  with  nothing  of  their  winter's  supply  of  bacon  and  sweet 
potatoes.  Upon  what  they  were  to  live  during  the  weeks  of 
the  winter  we  asked  not.  They  were  our  enemies  and  we 
were  hungry.  Such  is  war,  essentially  selfish  and  barbarous." 
General  Otis  commented  that  probably  there  was  not  left 
alive  a  chicken  nor  an  unburned  fence-rail  between  Newbern 
and  Goldsboro,  within  half  a  mile  of  the  line  of  march.  As 
the  distance  was  about  seventy  miles,  there  must  have  been 
a  widespread  region  of  desolation.  The  distance  marched 
this  day  some  of  the  men  give  as  twenty-five  miles,  the  same 
ending  about  midnight,  and  not  so  very  far  from  Kinston. 
Just  below  the  latter  place  hard-tack  rations  were  secured  from 
.the  gunboats,  and  these  lasted  until  reaching  Newbern.  In 
exchange  the  boats  took  aboard  the  wounded  and  disabled 
from  the  fights  and  marching. 


DEC.   19-21,   '62.  THE  RETURN.  185 

Whether  war  be  excusable  or  not,  there  is  not  the  least 
doubt  as  to  the  transcendent  beauty  of  a  camp-scene  at 
night.  Many  of  the  weary  travelers  on  this  day  and  night 
were  late  in  reaching  their  bivouac,  and  more  than  one  recorded 
his  impressions  of  the  sight  as  he  came  near  where  he  was  to 
pass  the  rest  of  the  night.  Says  one  of  these  scribes,  "  It 
was  past  midnight  when  we  neared  the  camping  place  of  the 
whole  army,  it  occupying  a  large  clearing  on  a  hill;  long  lines 
of  soldiers  extended  at  right  angles  to  the  line  of  march.  Wood 
was  plenty  and  every  squad  had  built  a  fire,  so  that  almost 
innumerable  fires  gleamed  in  parallels;  for  some  unknown 
reason  the  nearest  fires  seemed  to  burn  with  an  intense  white 
light.  The  next  had  a  slight  tinge  of  color,  this  deepening 
in  each  successive  line  until  the  last,  which  were  of  a  pro 
nounced  red.  It  was  the  most  magnificent  pyrotechnic  display 
that  I  ever  saw.  Men  weary,  footsore,  dirty,  ragged  and 
hungry,  dragged  themselves  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  whence  this 
sight  was  seen,  and  forgetful  of  their  troubles,  dropped  their 
musket  butts  to  the  ground  exclaiming,  "  Oh,  how  beautiful!" 

Friday,  the  19th,  the  return  was  begun  again,  this  time 
taking  the  route  that  Foster  swerved  from  in  his  advance, 
that  he  might  evade  the  preparations  for  a  warm  reception 
made  by  the  enemy.  His  wisdom  was  apparent  in  every 
step  of  the  way,  for  had  the  direct  road  been  taken  it  could 
have  been  gone  over  only  with  great  loss.  The  wit  of  the 
General  in  thus  setting  at  naught  the  careful  work  of  the 
rebels  was  a  matter  of  frequent  comment.  Night  found 
the  Fifth  within  ten  or  twelve  miles  of  Newbern,  which  city 
was  reached  Sunday,  the  21st,  about  noon,  though  there  were 
arrivals  before  this  and  afterwards;  but  whether  earlier  or 
later,  all  were  glad  to  get  back,  Newbern  being  much  like 
home  as  compared  with  what  they  had  been  through.  One 
of  the  unlooked-for  results  of  the  expedition  was  the  bringing 
back  with  the  soldiers  of  a  large  number  of  ex-slaves,  who, 
putting  their  entire  possessions  in  a  bundle,  larger  or  smaller, 
as  the  case  might  be,  added  themselves  to  the  column,  and  to 


186        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  number  of  500  or  more  came  into  Newbern  with  the  army. 
Very  many  of  them  soon  afterwards  were  helped  to  the  North, 
and  a  very  large  part  of  the  permanent  colored  population  of 
Massachusetts  reached  this  "  promised  land  "  by  way  of 
Newbern.  It  was  also  commented  that  seemingly  each  family 
was  followed  by  at  least  one  dog. 

NEWBERN. 

Ten  days'  absence  from  the  established  camp  was  long 
enough  to  give  to  every  man  an  ardent  wish  to  find 
out  what  the  mail  and  express  had  brought  to  him, 
for  the  constant  marching  had  put  them  beyond  the  reach  of 
such  conveniences.  Says  one  of  the  favored  concerning 
what  he  found,  "  You  can't  imagine  how  good  those  doughnuts, 
that  cake,  the  butter  and  preserves  tasted.  The  mittens  are 
all  right.  A  lot  of  boxes  came  to-day,  just  in  time  for  Christ 
mas."  The  records  of  the  regiment  give  the  following  list 
of  casualties:  at  Whitehall,  W.  W.  Anderson  (B),  painful 
contusion  just  below  the  left  knee,  spent  ball;  Peter  Conlin 
(D),  ball  in  the  knee;  Wm.  Eldridge  (E),  seriously,  ball 
lodged  in  the  thigh;  at  Goldsboro,  G.  W.  Burroughs  (B), 
contusion  on  left  hip,  from  grape-shot;  G.  W.  Barnes  (B), 
contusion  in  leg;  W.  A.  Hardy  (D),  contusion  in  back;  David 
0.  Williams  (D),  flesh  wound  in  head;  H.  J.  Babcock  (I), 
contusion  in  leg.  As  a  result  of  the  expedition,  all  regiments 
participating  were  permitted  to  have  inscribed  on  their  banners 
the  words,  Kinston,  Whitehall  and  Goldsboro,  the  three 
engagements  in  which  they  had  borne  a  part.  Also,  through 
the  recommendations  of  General  Foster,  commissions  as 
Brigadier-general  were  issued  to  several  officers  who  had 
distinguished  themselves,  among  them  Colonel  Thomas  G. 
Stevenson  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Massachusetts,  clearly  most 
worthy,  but  that  to  Colonel  Lee,  who  had  so  gallantly  led 
our  brigade,  was  denied  on  the  statement  that  not  more  than 
one  such  commission  at  a  time  should  go  to  a  single  state. 


DEC.  21,  '62.  NEWBERN.  187 

The  period  we  are  about  entering  proved  to  be  one  of 
exceeding  quiet,  especially  in  the  old  North  State.  Burn- 
side's  forces  on  the  banks  of  the  Rappahannock,  across  from 
Fredericksburg,  are  recovering  from  the  shock  of  their  terrible 
engagements.  In  the  west,  Rosecrans  with  his  army  is 
working  along  towards  the  dread  culmination  of  Stone  River 
or  Murfreesboro,  on  the  very  last  of  the  month,  and  Sherman 
is  beginning  the  operations  against  Vicksburg.  In  the  records 
of  these  final  days  of  December,  only  a  single  mention  is  made 
of  any  point  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  and  no  appearance 
of  North  Carolina  is  found  until  January  17th,  a  skirmish  at 
Pollocksville,  in  which  the  Third  New  York  Cavalry  figured. 
Indeed,  so  even  ran  the  course  of  events  in  this  department, 
the  statistical  accounts  make  only  four  mentions  of  North 
Carolina  from  this  time  onward  for  the  next  four  months. 
The  very  carefully  kept  order  book  of  Adjutant  Eustis  has 
only  the  record  of  individual  details,  the  providing  for  courts- 
martial  and  the  petty  operations  incident  to  garrison  life. 

This  state  of  affairs  was  one  for  which  the  soldiers  themselves 
were  in  no  way  responsible.  They  were  present  for  duty,  and 
after  they  had  recovered  from  the  fatigue  of  the  latest  expedi 
tion,  would  have  been  glad  to  start  again  for  some  part  of  the 
Confederacy  wThere  they  might  strike  a  blow  for  the  Union. 
Just  what  the  purpose  of  the  Government  was  in  this  prolonged 
period  of  inaction,  never  has  been  told,  possibly  never  will  be. 
At  this  time,  almost  half  a  century  after  the  days  involved, 
inasmuch  as  many  of  the  three  years'  regiments  were  with 
drawn  for  service  in  South  Carolina,  and  all  of  the  short-term 
troops  were  retained  in  the  North  State,  it  would  seem  that 
the  authorities  at  Washington  were  contenting  themselves 
with  the  holding  of  what  had  already  been  gained,  thus 
employing  a  certain  portion  of  the  Confederates  as  an  offset 
while  new  operations  were  begun  elsewhere.  Evidently  the 
time  for  moving  on  Wilmington  had  not  as  yet  arrived. 
Under  the  watchful  care  and  guidance  of  General  Foster,  it  was 
almost  sure  that  no  misfortune  would  befall  this  portion  of  the 


188        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

seat  of  war;  meanwhile  something  wTas  doing  towards  inspir 
ing  a  Union  sentiment  among  the  native  North  Carolinians. 

Unless  a  man  is  of  a  very  active,  nervous  temperament,  he 
is  likely  to  adapt  himself  to  almost  any  condition  where  his 
physical  wants  are  all  supplied  and  the  work  is  not  too  hard, 
provided  that  his  pay  is  going  on  and  in  the  not  very  remote 
distance  he  sees  the  probability  of  his  return  to  his  home  and 
normal  occupations.  For  some  time  this  seemed  to  be  the 
situation  in  which  the  Fifth  was  placed.  Camp  Peirson  was 
as  comfortably  pitched  as  any  such  aggregate  could  be, 
barring  the  presence  of  some  malarial  laden  swamps.  The 
city  of  Newbern  was  near  at  hand,  and  passes  could  be  had 
at  frequent  intervals,  so  that  soldiering  in  North  Carolina 
was  not  the  hardest  task  in  the  world.  Postal  facilities  were 
good,  and  the  express  companies  were  constantly  bringing 
to  these  far-away  sons  and  brothers  no  end  of  good  things 
from  home.  There  is  hardly  a  letter  or  diary  extant  that 
does  not  mention  the  arrival  of  receptaclesfilled  with  "goodies" 
for  the  "  Boys  in  Blue,"  so  remote  from  the  realms  of  u  moth 
er's  cooking."  Again  during  this  period,  there  is  a  lacking 
of  entries  in  the  records  that  the  soldiers  were  wont  to  make 
in  their  individual  journals  Seemingly  one  day  was  very 
much  like  another,  and  what  was  the  use  of  entering  the 
monotonous  round  of  "  Got  up,  ate,  drilled,  did  fatigue  duty 
and  went  to  bed"? 

Of  this  particular  portion  of  the  regiment's  stay  in  the 
department,  Private  E.  A.  Perry  (I)  has  the  following  interest 
ing  entry: 

In  our  Newbern  camp,  we  remained  'until  the  13th  day 
of  March.  Several  expeditions  were  made  by  small  parties 
into  the  surrounding  country.  Generally  only  a  single  brigade 
took  part  in  these.  The  casualties  were  small  and  the  results 
unimportant.  These  little  raids  kept  the  troops  in  warlike 
trim  and  the  enemy  in  a  delightful  state  of  uncertainty. 
To  the  private  soldier,  and  for  that  matter  to  the  officers, 
•except  those  in  the  counsels  of  those  high  in  command,  many 
matters  are  a  puzzle.  For  instance,  during  these  months  of 


DEC.  22,  '62.  XEWBERN.  189' 

idleness,  two  brigades  came  into  the  department  from  Vir 
ginia;  important  movements  seemed  to  be  planned,  but  what 
they  were  we  never  learned.  Rumors  were  numerous,  but  as 
is  often  the  case,  they  had  very  little  foundation  in  fact  But 
even  rumors  served  their  purpose.  They  gave  us  something 
to  talk  about.  Our  speculations  often  ran  in  curious  channels. 
This,  however,  was  better  than  nothing  to  talk  about.  Cer 
tain  it  is  that  had  we  gone  to  all,  or  even  one-half,  of  the  places 
suggested  by  Dame  Rumor,  we  should  have  seen  service 
enough  for  half  a  dozen  regiments. 

While  a  long  way  from  home  the  Massachusetts  soldiers 
in  Newbern,  so  numerous  were  they,  and  coming  from  such 
divergent  sections  of  the  Commonwealth,  had  it  been  possible 
to  meet  in  a  general  assembly,  could  have  told  something 
about  every  one  of  the  three  hundred  and  thirty-nine  cities 
and  towrns  of  the  State.  While  a  visit  to  the  different  regi 
ments  would  not  produce  the  localities  whence  those  visited 
came  from,  it  could  and  did  bring  up  visions  of  favorite 
portions  of  the  homeland,  hence  the  many  passes  issued  for 
the  boys  of  this  and  that  organization  to  go  over  to  see  some 
old  friend  or  acquaintance  in  other  regiments.  The  homes 
of  the  several  companies  of  the  Fifth  represented  a  considerable 
part  of  Essex,  Middlesex  and  Suffolk  Counties  with  a  bit  of 
Barnstable;  the  Third  surely  accounted  for  every  township 
in  Bristol  County.  If  any  part  of  Essex  was  lacking  in  the 
Fifth,  it  was  more  than  supplied  by  the  Eighth;  the  Seven 
teenth  held  more  men  from  Essex,  Middlesex  and  Suffolk; 
the  Twenty-third  touched  Essex,  Suffolk,  Bristol,  Plymouth 
and  Norfolk;  the  Twenty-fourth  had  members  from  two 
hundred  and  nineteen  different  cities  and  towns  of  the  State; 
the  Twenty-fifth  and  the  Fifty-first  were  almost  exclusively 
from  Worcester  County;  the  Twenty-seventh  and  the  Forty- 
sixth  were  raised  in  the  four  western  counties,  Franklin, 
Hampshire,  Hampden  and  Berkshire;  the  Forty-third,  Forty- 
fourth  and  Forty-fifth  went  from  Boston,  with  some  coloring 
from  Norfolk  and  Middlesex.  In  this  way  mention  has  been 
made  of  every  county  in  the  Commonwealth  except  Nantucket 


190        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

and  Dukes,  and  they  were  found  in  the  Twenty-fourth  and 
others  of  the  foregoing  enumeration.  There  was  no  intention 
of  thus  assembling  the  Bay  State  in  miniature,  through  her 
sons  in  the  Old  North  State,  but  it  was  an  interesting  coin 
cidence. 

While  these  concluding  days  of  1862  contained  the  holidays 
known  and  recognized  the  Christian  world  over,  and  while 
at  home  younger  patriots  are  hanging  their  stockings  for  the 
kind  inspection  of  Santa  Glaus,  the  boys  in  the  fields  appear 
to  make  little  if  any  mention  of  them.  Just  a  single  diary  of 
the  period  in  question  makes  entries  for  the  individual,  but 
very  likely  they  would  apply  equally  well  to  others.  Thus 
for  the  22d  (Monday)  the  writer  says:  "  Fixed  up  as  well  as 
we  could  and  received  our  knapsacks."  It  will  be  remembered 
that  these  were  stored  when  the  expedition  was  prepared  for. 
The  scribes  for  other  regiments  remark  on  the  application  of 
court-plaster  and  mutton-tallow  to  blistered  feet,  the  exchange 
of  socks,  the  clean  shirts  and  other  matters  of  attire  altered, 
washed  or  changed  on  account  of  the  ten  days  of  constant 
marching  and  fighting.  The  24th  has  this  characteristic 
entry:  "  Received  a  box  from  mother;  everything  spoiled 
except  some  butternuts  and  cake.  Johnny  treated  all  of  us 
to  a  whiskey  punch."  We  may  be  sure  it  was  not  "  Johnny 
Reb  "  who  was  thus  generous,  while  the  saved  contents  of 
the  box  assured  at  least  one  soldier  an  extra  morsel  for  his 
Christmas  dinner.  Christmas,  the  day  of  all  the  year  most 
loved  by  Christian  mankind  in  general,  has  only  this  short 
sentence:  t(  Went  down  town  and  played  billiards  with  John, 
Joe  and  Oscar."  Evidently  those  boys  were  not  in  the  least 
sentimental.  Sunday,  the  26th,  brought  the  regular  inspec 
tion,  and  as  the  writer  was  not  feeling  well  and  went  to  the 
hospital,  his  remarks  cease  to  be  of  general  interest. 

1863. 

So  far  as  records  go,  the  first  day  of  the  New  Year  was  not 
an  exciting  one  in  Newbern,  and  there  were  few,  if  any,  of  the 


JAN.   5-9,   '63.  NEWBERN.  191 

conventionalities  prevalent  nearer  home,  though  every  man 
wished  his  comrades  a  Happy  New  Year,  and  all  formed,  if 
they  did  not  express,  the  wish  that  they  might  be  at  home 
for  the  opening  of  the  next  year.  The  regimental  band  gave 
the  headquarters  a  serenade  in  the  evening.  This  1st  day 
of  January  was  also  notable  as  the  date  on  which  the  freedom 
of  all  slaves  in  rebellious  territory  was  proclaimed,  in  accord 
ance  with  the  famous  war-measure  of  the  preceding  September, 
by  the  President.  Some  of  the  colored  people  knew  of  their 
good  fortune,  while  others  were  as  ignorant  as  ever.  The 
next  three  days  seem  to  have  been  devoted  to  getting  out 
material  from  the  neighboring  woods  for  the  flooring  of  the 
tents.  Monday,  the  5th,  the  regiments  crossed  the  river  for 
a  brigade-drill.  Early  in  this  month,  the  Twenty-seventh 
Massachusetts  was  united  at  Washington,  and  Company  A 
of  the  Fifth,  which  had  been  in  the  latter  place  since  the 
Tarboro  expedition,  was  ordered  back  to  Newbern,  arriving 
there  on  the  8th  of  the  month,  thus  bringing  all  of  the  compa 
nies  together.  Our  diarist  enters  for  the  8th  of  January: 
"  Signed  the  pay-roll  and  expected  to  be  paid,  but  it  was 
deferred  till  tomorrow."  Thursday,  the  9th,  brought  the 
first  pay-day  the  boys  had  seen  and  apparently  the  soldiers 
made,  for  the  most  part,  excellent  use  of  what  they  got;  the 
pay  was  to  Nov.  1st.  Says  one,  "  I  received  $28;  I  sent 
$25  home  and  I  paid  —  -  the  dollar  I  owed  him."  Another, 
evidently  from  Ashland,  says,  "  The  twenty-eight  Ashland 
boys  sent  $528  home."  Need  we  wonder  that  the  men  who 
thus  remembered  the  faraway  home  won  the  cause  for  which 
they  fought?  In  his  Crimean  Episode,  Bayard  Taylor  said: 

"  The    bravest    are    the    tenderest, 
The  loving  are  the  daring." 

Though  so  many  of  the  men  were  thoughtful  and  provident, 
and  it  is  stated  that  out  of  their  two  months'  pay,  the  men  of 
Co.  B  sent  $1600  to  their  Massachusetts  homes,  there  were 
many  who  cared  only  for  the  passing  moment,  and  wasted 
much  of  their  pay  in  some  form  of  alcohol,  and  brought 


192        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

trouble  upon  themselves  thereby.  The  10th  of  January 
marked  four  months  from  the  time  of  the  companies'  repairing 
to  the  Wenham  camp.  January  llth  has  interesting  observa 
tions  on  the  condition  of  the  colored  people,  one  of  whom, 
Pompey  Stanley,  had  been  a  slave  of  the  grandfather  of  Gov- 
enor  Stanley;  his  second  master  was  a  Taylor,  whose  daughter 
had  given  him  his  liberty  and  a  sum  of  money  besides,  this 
some  ten  years  before,  a  very  small  oasis  on  the  desert  of 
slavery.  The  other  instance  was  that  of  an  enlisted  man 
undertaking  to  teach  a  freedman  to  spell,  the  latter  having 
learned  his  letters  while  still  a  slave.  It  did  not  take  men 
from  the  Bay  State  a  great  while  to  enter  into  the  spirit  of 
President  Lincoln's  Proclamation.  Monday,  Jan.  12th, 
came  the  burial  of  Sergt.  B.  S.  Houghton  of  Co.  K,  who  had 
died  on  the  9th.  There  were  the  muffled  drum  and  the 
reversed  arms  to  the  grave,  and  the  quickstep  for  the  return, 
for  the  march  of  life  is  ever  onward,  and  constant  mourning 
is  hardly  possible. 

While  infrequent  mention  is  made  in  these  records  of  the 
name  of  Colonel  Peirson,  the  13th  of  January  finds  a  certain 
private  stating  that  he  with  others  had  been  reported  for 
neglect  of  duty.  The  plain  truth  was  he  had  skipped  drill 
that  he  might  read  a  book  he  had  just  borrowed,  and  the 
Colonel  gave  the  boys  a  deserved  talking  to,  dismissing  them 
without  further  punishment.  Was  it  strange  that  the  young 
man  wrote,  "  The  Colonel  is  well  liked,  "  or  that  he  then  re 
solved  to  be  more  strict  with  himself?  The  same  day  brought 
brigade  inspection,  with  the  band  in  evidence,  the  same 
serenading  the  Colonel,  later,  at  his  quarters,  and  in  the 
evening  the  musicians  went  into  the  city,  accompanied  by 
the  Colonel,  Staff  and  Captains  and  played  for  the  edification 
of  Colonel  H.  C.  Lee  (Acting  Brigadier)  and  General  John  G. 
Foster.  It  was  on  the  17th  of  January  that  a  philosophical 
correspondent  of  the  home  paper  wrote  thus:  "  It  is  the  general 
impression  that  this  war  is  a  farce,  and  that  the  difficulty  will 
never  be  settled  by  fighting,  should  it  continue  for  years." 


JAN.  21,  '63.  NEWBERN.  193 

On  just  what  food  this  scribal  Dogberry  had  recently  fed, 
that  he  should  thus  cry  "peccavi"  in  the  face  of  the  enemy, 
there  is  no  way  of  knowing  now,  but  it  is  certain  that  he  could 
not  have  been  familiar  with  Lowell's  splendid  advice  under 
such  circumstances,  "  Be  sure  you  know  before  you  prophesy." 
The  Newbern  Progress,  then  printed  by  men  from  the  several 
regiments  present,  had  its  representatives  from  the  Fifth, 
among  them  John  R.  Nickles,  Co.  G;  Charles  H.  Gordon,  Co. 
H;  John  H.  Potter,  and  Wm.  H.  Brazier,  Co.  B.  Tuesday, 
Jan.  20th,  there  came  an  echo  from  the  Goldsboro  trip,  when 
three  members  of  one  of  the  companies,  having  been  court- 
martialed  for  skulking  under  fire,  were  publicly  disgraced  by 
having  their  names  read  at  dress-parade,  and  punishment  was 
indicated  to  the  effect  that  they  must  stand  on  barrels  a 
certain  number  of  hours  in  the  company  street.  On  the  same 
day  began  the  details  of  men  to  assist  in  caring  for  the  blacks 
who  were  constantly  coming  into  the  lines.  Privates  C.  W. 
Hill  and  Wm.  T.  Wood  of  "  I  "  and  B.  T.  Hutchinson  (C) 
were  directed  to  report  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Means,  then  the 
superintendent  of  the  freedmen. 

On  the  21st,  Maj.  General  Foster  with  engineers  was  ob 
served  in  front  of  the  camp,  and  observations  were  evidently 
being  made  for  some  purpose,  just  what  the  men  could  only 
guess.  The  next  day  (22nd)  work  was  begun  on  a  series  of 
earthworks  around  the  camp,  the  portion  not  already  protected 
by  swamps.  At  the  outset  only  ten  men  were  detailed  from 
each  company;  later  the  number  was  increased,  and  finally, 
so  urgent  was  the  matter,  work  continued  even  Sundays. 
One  man  writes  of  these  works:  "  The  ditch  is  twenty  feet 
wide  and  the  height  of  the  embankment  is  eighteen  feet  from 
the  bottom  of  the  ditch."  Before  the  works  were  completed 
two  cannon  were  received  to  be  used  in  defence,  their  history 
being  of  unusual  interest.  It  was  understood  that  they  were 
captured  from  the  Union  army  at  Bull  Run,  and  when  Burnside 
and  his  men  invaded  North  Carolina  the  guns  came  back  to 
their  own.  Later,  having  been  sent  to  Washington  on  the 


194         FIFTH   REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M..  NINE  MONTHS. 


JAN.  23,  '63.  NEWBERN.  195 

Tar,  in  one  of  the  many  assaults  on  that  devoted  city,  the 
rebels  got  them  again.  Once  more  in  the  battle  of  Kinston, 
like  shuttles  they  were  cast  into  Union  hands,  and  now  were 
to  be  turned  against  the  gray.  They  had  been  terribly 
misused  by  the  foe,  the  railroad  iron  and  other  disreputable 
missiles  employed  by  them  having  grooved  the  guns  in  a 
manner  very  far  from  regular. 

One  of  the  many  scribes  with  whom  the  Fifth  abounded, 
writing  of  this  period,  says:  "  Probably  a  new  detail  will  be 
made  every  day,  so  that  doubtless  I  shall  have  a  chance  to 
use  the  shovel  and  pick.  The  Twenty-fifth,  encamped  next 
to  us,  is  also  digging  rifle-pits.  The  troops  going  on  the 
expedition  are  embarking  as  rapidly  as  possible  for  Beaufort." 
Reference  in  the  foregoing  is  made  to  the  shifting  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  and  other  veteran  regiments  to  South  Carolina, 
where,  eventually,  they  were  to  bear  a  part  in  the  campaign 
against  Fort  Wagner.  On  the  23d,  a  boy  who  was  not  obliged 
to  take  a  hand  in  fortifying  says  he  volunteered  to  dig.  "  I 
dug  there  all  day,  part  of  the  time  throwing  dirt  at  each  other." 
Was  there  ever  anything  more  boy-like  written  than  that? 
When  did  a  boy,  wherever  placed,  fail  to  make  a  frolic  of  his 
task  if  there  was  the  least  opportunity?  '  General  '  Foster 
and  Prince  came  along  towards  night  and  said  we  had  done 
well;  a  drink  of  whiskey  at  noon."  The  query  naturally 
rises  as  to  whether  the  volunteering  had  any  alcoholic  provoca 
tion.  It  was  in  this  period  that  a  volunteer  moralized  on  the 
difference  between  northern  and  southern  soldiers,  stating 
that  whenever  he  went  outside  of  the  lines  and  called  on  some 
of  the  natives,  it  was  to  find  only  the  feminine  portion  of  the 
household  at  home,  the  masculine  having  long  before  gone 
into  the  rebel  army,  and  while  the  Union  boys  were  complain 
ing  if  they  did  not  get  at  least  a  letter  a  week,  these  poor  people 
had  not  heard  a  word  from  their  dear  ones  from  the  very 
beginning.  For  this  condition  there  were  two  reasons,  either 
one  sufficient,  viz. :  first,  the  mail  facilities  were  of  the  poorest 
kind  possible,  and  secondly,  neither  those  at  home  nor  those 


196        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

at  the  front,  in  the  majority  of  cases,  could  read  or  write  a 
word.  No  wonder  that  the  long  interval  of  separation  was 
one  continuous  blank.  It  was  on  this  same  23d  that  a  lad 
thought  it  of  sufficient  moment  to  state  that  in  their  drill,  that 
day,  Adjutant  Eustis  and  Surgeon  Ingalls  drilled  in  the  ranks 
as  privates.  Doubtless  the  excellent  officers  thought  it 
desirable  to  have  more  exercise  than  their  positions  gave  them. 

Not  even  regular  guard  and  fatigue  duty,  drill  and  digging 
in  the  trenches  could  exhaust  all  of  the  energies  of  these 
Massachusetts  boys,  so  they  must  needs  organize  a  baseball 
club,  a  thing  they  had  never  done  before  in  the  month  of 
January,  and  company  rivalry  naturally  ran  high.  The  nine 
from  Company  I  beat  that  of  Company  C  to  the  tune  of  fifty 
to  twenty-nine.  It  goes  without  saying  that  this  was  in  the 
days  of  old-fashioned  ball,  when  large  scores  were  not  unusual, 
and  a  phenomenally  small  one  by  no  means  argued  a  superior 
game.  During  these  later  days  of  January,  work  continued 
on  the  fortifications,  the  same  gradually  extending  around  the 
western  and  northwestern  part  of  the  camp,  the  breastworks 
requiring  logs  for  their  facings,  and  these  were  furnished  by 
the  pioneer  corps  and  others  from  the  neighboring  woods. 
January  28th  the  schooner  UH.  B.  Frye"  arrived,  having  on 
board  a  considerable  number  of  boxes  from  home,  and  on  the 
next  day  the  grand  distribution  took  place,  no  less  than  304 
boxes  and  barrels  finding  lodgment  among  these  soldier  boys, 
seventy-five  of  them  going  to  the  Woburn  Phalanx  alone. 
Writes  one  of  the  lucky  Woburnites:  "  Our  company  has  more 
boxes  than  any  other  one.  There  are  fifteen  or  sixteen  in  this 
tent  alone;  the  sutler  and  the  negro  women  will  have  little 
business  now,  and  even  the  cook-house  is  not  of  much  account. 
Our  tent  looks  like  a  small  grocery." 

The  30th  brought  a  little  variety  in  that  the  nearly  complet 
ed  intrenchments  were  used  as  a  part  of  mimic  attack  and 
repulse.  At  battalion  drill,  the  men  fired  over  the  ramparts; 
the  Twenty-fifth  did  likewise  from  their  rifle-pits  on  the  left 
of  the  Fifth.  The  Twenty-fifth  and  the  Forty-sixth  made  a 


FEB.  5,  '63.  NEWBERN.  197 

charge,  while  still  another  brigade  at  the  extreme  left  by  the 
woods  was  firing  vigorously.  The  last  day  of  the  month 
affords  nothing  of  general  importance,  but  this  rhapsody  from 
a  youth  of  Company  G,  standing  on  the  bombproof  of  Fort 
Totten,  makes  a  good  closing:  "  The  numerous  encampments, 
the  thousands  of  soldiers,  the  bright  winding  of  the  river  in 
the  distance,  the  steeples  of  Newbern  rising  out  of  the  trees, 
the  band  playing  in  the  court  below,  form  an  interesting  sight." 

February  began  on  Sunday  and  many  of  the  men  went  into 
the  city  to  service,  some  of  the  pulpits  being  occupied  by  army 
chaplains.  Writing  on  the  3d  of  the  month  one  of  the  soldiers 
ascribed  the  excellent  health  of  the  regiment  to  the  fact  that 
they  were  living  in  tents,  while  other  organizations,  housed  in 
barracks,  were  suffering  from  many  ailments.  Again  Colonel 
Peirson  comes  in  for  praise  because  of  his  election  of  tents 
rather  than  barracks  for  the  Fifth.  In  a  letter,  written  the 
5th,  may  be  read:  "  Our  intrenchments  are  nearly  finished. 
The  ditch  and  embankment  are  completed  and  part  of  the 
embrasures  for  the  guns  are  cut.  I  don't  know  but  my 
writing  several  times  about  fortifying  the  place  may  have 
caused  you  anxiety  for  fear  the  enemy  was  going  to  attack  us 
here.  I  think  that  General  Foster  is  so  fortifying  the  place 
that  it  will  be  next  to  impossible  for  the  rebels  to  take  it,  should 
they  be  driven  out  of  Virginia,  or  if  they  should  make  a  raid, 
learning  that  General  Foster  had  gone  on  an  expedition.  I 
don't  believe  the  enemy  will  dare  to  make  an  attack,  there 
being  more  than  twenty  regiments  left  here  yet.  I  see  by 
the  papers  that  the  Democrats  are  getting  troublesome — -the 
traitors;  deserting  the  Government  in  this  emergency!  They 
deserve  punishment  more  than  half  of  the  rebels,  who  don't 
know  what  they  are  fighting  for." 

The  funeral  of  Edwin  F.  Whitney,  Co.  H,  was  held  on  the 
parade-ground,  the  5th  of  February,  he  having  died  of  fever 
the  3d  inst.  The  regiment,  without  arms,  formed  in  a  square 
upon  the  field,  with  the  flag-covered  coffin  in  the  center, 


198        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  Chaplain  reading  the  burial  service.  It  was  understood 
that  Captain  Drew  of  the  company  defrayed  the  expenses  of 
returning  the  body  to  Massachusetts. 

A  young  man  who  visits  Fort  Totten,  named  for  General 
Joseph  G.  Totten,  Chief  of  Engineers,  and  one  of  the  oldest 
officers  in  the  army,  gives  this  description  of  what  he  saw:  "  It 
is  a  large  earthwork,  mounting  twelve  guns,  some  of  them  64 
pounds  calibre.  It  is  surrounded  by  a  ditch  from  twenty  to 
thirty  feet  in  width  and  ten  in  depth.  Besides  the  large  guns, 
it  has  smaller  brass  pieces  placed  in  position  to  rake  the  ditch. 
It  is  now  garrisoned  by  two  companies  of  New  York  artillery 
and  two  companies  of  the  Eighth  Massachusetts."  February 
8th  was  Sunday  and  a  writer  offers  this  concerning  services: 

"  The  Rev.  Chaplain  A.  L.  Stone,  Forty-fifth  Massachusetts, 
preached.  The  church  was  plain  and  small,  and  crowded  to 
its  limit  with  soldiers.  There  were  a  few  ladies,  officers  with 
glittering  shoulder-straps,  colonels,  majors,  captains,  lieu 
tenants,  etc.,  and  ten  single  stars  of  a  brigadier-general. 
The  Forty-fifth  with  guns  and  equipments  and  colors  filled 
the  aisles.  The  singing  by  four  soldiers  was  very  good  and 
the  sermon  was  about  Esau  and  Jacob." 

It  is  recorded  that  on  the  13th,  members  of  Company  B 
were  all  presented  with  caps  by  the  mother  of  Charles  B. 
Hollander,  one  of  the  comrades  himself.  Just  what  kind  of 
cap  it  was  is  not  stated,  whether  for  night  or  day  use. 
Weather  and  camp-life  are  clearly  described  in  the  following 
selection  from  a  letter,  written  in  these  days:  "The  weather  has 
been  very  warm  lately,  about  what  we  have  in  June  at  home. 
I  drew  another  blanket  the  other  day,  as  the  nights  are  quite 
cold,  and  we  may  have  more  of  them,  the  negroes  saying  that 
the  coldest  weather  comes  in  March.  We  do  not  want  for 
company  nights,  since  mice  have  battalion  drill,  judging  by 
their  numbers.  Soon  after  the  lights  are  out,  they  begin  to 
scamper  around  over  our  knapsacks  and  us.  Sometimes, 
when  almost  asleep,  a  mouse  will  run  over  my  face,  this  happen- 


FEB.   15-22,   '63.  NEWBERN.  199 

ing  quite  frequently  too.  I  suppose  you  at  home  would 
think  them  quite  too  neighborly  for  comfort,  but  we  don't 
mind  them  much.  Quite  a  number  of  the  boys  are  making 
rings,  picture  cases  and  even  little  baskets  from  the  bones 
that  come  with  the  fresh  beef,  some  of  them  being  quite  pretty. 
I  haven't  tried  my  hand  at  them  yet.  Judging  from  what 
some  of  the  — th's  men  write  home,  that  particular  regiment 
has  seen  more  hardship,  has  done  more,  and  in  fact  is  the  1  est 
regiment  in  Newbern.  I  am  glad  we  don't  have  so  much 
blowing,  nor  write  such  soft  letters  as  are  published  from  that 
body  of  men.  While  I  suppose  there  are  few,  if  any,  men  in 
the  Fifth  spoiling  for  a  fight,  I  haven't  any  fear,;  as  to  the  men's 
doing  thc-ir  duty." 

Sunday,  the  15th,  one  man  says  he  tried  to  attend  church, 
but  the  edifice  was  so  crowded  he  could  not  get  in.  Another 
records  that  he  heard  the  sermon  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lothrop 
(doubtless  the  Reverend  Samuel  K.  of  Boston).  Both  men 
later  witnessed  the  dress-parade  of  the  Forty-fifth,  Colonel 
Codman  commanding;  one  says:  "  Very  good,"  the  other, 
"  I  was  disappointed;  don't  think  they  do  as  well  as  the  Old 
Fifth."  In  the  evening  of  the  19th,  the  band  came  out  and 
furnished  music  on  the  parade-grounds  for  the  men  to  dance 
by,  agreeable  alike  to  those  who  danced  and  those  who  only 
looked  on.  Saturday,  the  21st,  brought  marching  orders 
for  Company  G;  the  men  were  to  pack  immediately  to  depart 
for  Hatteras  Inlet.  Lively  times  followed  in  this  part  of  the 
camp,  every  man  being  pleased  at  the  thought  of  a  change. 
The  same  day,  orders  were  received  by  Company  D  to  make 
ready  to  go  to  Elizabeth  City,  N.  C.  The  next  day,  the  22d, 
in  a  drizzling  rain,  the  companies  left  their  camp,  the  regiment 
being  drawn  up  to  receive  them  and  to  cheer  the  departing 
comrades  who,  accompanied  by  the  band,  marched  by. 
Leaving  Camp  Peirson  about  9  a.m.  the  route  was  through  the 
city  to  die  wharves,  passing  the  quarters  of  Colonel  Lee, 
commanding  the  brigade,  Co.  G  going  aboard  the  propeller 
"North  Star"  at  IGo'clock,  which  conveyed  the  company  to  the 


200        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

gunboat  "Lancet,"  out  in  the  stream.  As  the  men  steamed 
away  they  gave  three  cheers  for  Colonel  Peirson,  Adjutant 
Eustis  and  the  band.  The  gunboat  mounted  two  32-pound 
guns.  Going  down  to  the  mouth  of  the  Nouse,  the  "Lancet" 
dropped  anchor  for  the  night.  During  the  day  in  Newbern, 
100  guns  were  fired  in  honor  of  Washington's  birthday. 

The  birthday  of  the  Father  of  his  Country  having  come  on 
Sunday,  the  following  Monday  was  given  to  the  soldiers  as  a 
holiday,  a  day  which  they  could  do  pretty  much  as  they  liked, 
within  reasonable  bounds.  The  most  noteworthy  feature 
of  the  day,  so  far  as  these  Massachusetts  boys  were  concerned, 
was  a  ball  given  by  the  Forty-fourth  Regiment.  It  was  hon 
ored  by  the  presence  of  General  Wessells  andColonel  H.  C.Lee, 
each  accompanied  by  his  staff.  Those  attending  claimed 
that  the  rooms  were  too  crowded  for  dancing.  There  were 
no  ladies  present,  though  some  of  the  boys  dressed  up  as 
members  of  the  gentler  sex,  but  all  pronounced  it  a  grand 
success.  The  25th  was  long  memorable  in  regimental  annals 
as  the  day  of  the  Great  Review,  when  all  of  the  troops  at 
Newbern,  except  those  on  guard,  were  assembled  on  the  south 
side  of  the  Trent,  and  in  the  proudest  manner  possible  passed 
in  review  before  General  Foster,  commanding  the  department. 
The  band  accompanied  the  Fifth,  though  in  going  through  the 
city  it  played  for  the  brigade.  Our  regiment  was  in  the 
Second  Brigade,  First  Division,  General  I.  N.  Palmer  in 
command,  the  parade  being  the  finest  display  of  its  kind  that 
the  men  had  ever  seen,  and  the  most  of  them  thought  that 
their  Colonel,  or  "  Uncle  George,"  as  some  affectionately 
referred  to  him,  was  proud  of  his  followers.  In  some  way 
the  boys  acquired  the  news  that  their  brigade  was  the  best  in 
Newbern,  and  that  the  Fifth  was  the  second  best  in  the  brigade, 
only  the  Twenty-fifth,  a  three  years'  regiment,  excelling  it. 

Company  G  was  left  on  the  "  Lancet,"  at  anchor  in  the  mouth 
of  the  Neuse,  late  in  the  night  of  the  22d-23d.  On  the  latter 
day  the  vessel  proceeded  on  its  way  to  Hatteras  Bar,  reaching 
that  sandy  waste  at  10.30  a.m.,  landing  by  means  of  an  old 


FEB.  24,  '63.  NEWBERN.  201 

wreck,  and  made  their  way  to  certain  ruined  barracks  near 
Fort  Clarke,  and  tried  to  make  themselves  as  comfortable  as 
the  circumstances  would  permit.  The  next  day,  24th,  a 
squad  of  nineteen  men,  under  command  of  Sergt.  Hastings, 
started  off  011  a  march  of  sixteen  or  eighteen  miles  to  Hatteras 
Light,  where  they  were  to  remain  as  guardians.  Their 
quarters,  all  under  cover,  were  thought  to  be  very  fine  indeed. 
The  same  day  that  Co.  G  started  for  Hatteras,  Company  D 
of  Charlestown  took  ship  for  Elizabeth  City,  quite  an  import 
ant  place  for  North  Carolina,  located  at  the  head  of  Pasquot- 
ank  Bay,  near  the  mouth  of  the  stream  that  flows  out  of  the 
Great  Dismal  Swamp.  This  company  also  was  to  remain 
away  from  the  regiment  until  the  start  for  home.  The  special 
orders  thus  detailing  these  companies  are  numbered  seventy- 
four  and  seventy-five.  That  regarding  Company  G  is  in 
effect  as  stated,  with  the  additional  fact  that  ten  days'  rations 
were  to  be  taken,  and  that  all  camp  equipage,  save  tents,  was 
to  be  carried  also.  The  same  wording  was  used  for  Company 
D,  except  that  only  three  days'  rations  were  to  be  taken,  and 
the  company  went  as  an  escort  for  General  I.  N.  Palmer. 
The  statement,  moreover,  is  made  that  the  company  will 
probably  remain  at  Elizabeth. 

Variety  is  not  one  of  the  strong  points  in  garrison  life,  even 
though  the  enemy  may  be  near  the  picket  line,  an  enemy, 
however,  that  is  quite  well  satisfied  if  he  manages  to  keep  the 
men  on  duty  wakeful  and  vigilant.  Naturally  regimental 
discipline  and  style,  so  to  speak,  increase  with  the  absence  of 
active  campaigning,  all  officers  seeming  to  think  that  drill  and 
polishing  of  brasses  the  chief  end  of  a  soldier's  life.  Men 
employed  in  a  clerical  capacity  at  headquarters  were  excused 
from  the  regular  duties  of  camp  life,  hence,  needing  exercise, 
supplied  themselves  with  Indian  clubs  for  use  in  creating  an 
appetite  and  in  keeping  up  their  physique.  Colonel  Peirson, 
happening  along  one  day,  and  finding  them  swinging  the  clubs 
vigorously,  suggested  that  if  it  was  exercise  they  were  needing, 
perhaps  they  had  better  take  in  brigade  drill.  He  retired. 


202        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

laughing,  on  being  told  that  such  a  course  would  result  in  as 
much  work  for  him  as  for  the  men  themselves.  On  the  6th, 
the  regiment  gets  a  notion  of  activity  in  the  reception  of  orders 
to  prepare  three  days'  cooked  rations  at  once,  usually  a  pre 
monition  of  something  doing.  Orders  had  already  been  re 
ceived  to  be  prepared  to  march  at  an  hour's  notice.  On  the 
5th  and  6th,  troops  were  leaving  along  the  Neuse  road,  among 
them  the  brigade  of  General  Spinola,  indeed  a  period  of 
action  seemed  impending. 

Short  trips  into  neighboring  counties  were  made  by  some 
of  the  regiments.  On  the  7th  some  of  the  troops  returned, 
and  at  9  o'clock  in  the  evening,  orders  were  received  to  be 
ready  to  march  before  morning.  On  the  8th  one  man  said 
he  could  not  attend  church  on  account  of  the  imminence  of 
danger,  while  another  records  that  he  did  attend,  and  makes 
out  quite  a  story  of  how  affairs  were  managed  in  a  colored 
organization.  "  On  our  way  back,  we  went  into  a  colored 
church,  where  the  people  were  exhorted  to  come  up  and 
become  members  of  the  church,  there  to  tell  how  they  had 
come  out  of  darkness  into  light,  or  in  other  words,  to  relate 
their  experience.  When  the  man  was  before  the  audience, 
the  minister  would  ask  if  any  one  knew  his  history  and  could 
testify  as  to  the  individual's  character,  and  if  all  were  willing 
to  accept  him  as  a  brother;  if  so  he  was  taken  by  the  hand  and 
thus  was  made  a  member."  Possibly  some  of  the  activity  among 
the  men  was  incident  to  the  advancing  season,  since  peach 
trees  are  in  bloom  and  dandelions  have  been  picked. 

March  10th,  Spinola's  troops  returned  and  some  patriotic 
men  in  the  regiment  had  prepared  in  the  neighboring  forest 
a  new  flag-staff,  which  was  drawn  into  the  camp  preparatory 
to  a  raising  on  the  coming  14th,  the  anniversary  of  the  capture 
of  Newbern  the  year  before.  The  next  day  matters  had 
quieted  down  so  much  that  orders  were  read  at  dress-parade 
stating  that  the  necessity  of  keeping  three  days'  cooked  rations 
on  hand  no  longer  existed,  and  companies  could  act  accord 
ingly.  That  the  new  flag-staff  might  be  in  place  for  the 


MARCH   14,  '63.  NEWBERN.  203 

celebration  on  the  14th,  the  raising  was  attempted  on  the  13th, 
and  progressed  all  right  until,  by  the  unlucky  breaking  of  a 
rope,  the  timber  came  crashing  to  the  earth,  nearly  braining 
a  man  of  Company  H,  who  saw  his  danger,  but  was  too  badly 
scared  to  move.  However,  the  miss  that  is  said  to  be  as 
good  as  a  mile  saved  him.  At  5  p.m.  orders  came  to  the 
regiment  to  be  ready  to  march  within  an  hour: 

At  6  we  were  on  the  way,  taking  the  road  by  Fort 
Totten,  and  advancing  rapidly  till  9  o'clock,  when  we  halted 
just  inside  the  picket  station.  Men  on  guard  walked  their 
beats  rapidly  without  overcoats  just  to  keep  warm,  so  cold 
was  the  night.  We  could  see  the  gleam  of  the  enemy's  camp- 
fires,  but  we  were  not  allowed  to  build  any,  lest  we  should 
reveal  our  presence  and  so  invoke  the  fire  of  the  rebels.  Early 
next  morning  (14th)  we  advanced  to  feel  the  rebel  position 
and  to  find,  if  possible,  his  number  and  position.  Skirmishers 
were  already  deployed,  and  the  significant  crack,  crack, 
crack  of  their  rifles  could  be  heard  as  the  Fifth  advanced  to 
form  in  line  of  battle  behind  them.  At  this  instant  the  morn 
ing  gun  at  Fort  Totten  was  heard,  and  to  our  surprise,  this 
was  followed  by  a  brisk  cannonade.  At  first  it  was  thought 
that  the  men  in  camp  had  begun  their  celebration  of  Newbern 
Day  early,  but  the  irregular  continuance  soon  drove  out  that 
notion.  While  we  were  puzzling  ourselves  over  the  matter, 
an  orderly  rode  up  on  foaming  steed  with  orders  for  us  to 
return  to  Newbern  without  delay.  *  We  countermarched  at 
once,  and  made  for  the  city.  Colonel  Peirson  was  not  one  to 
indicate  his  feelings  by  the  expression  of  his  face,  but  it  was 
noticed,  as  he  rode  by  at  the  head  of  the  regiment,  that  he 
carried  a  more  solemn  look  than  usual.  With  the  orderly 
had  come  the  rumor  that  we  might  have  to  cut  our  way 
through  a  large  body  of  rebels  in  order  to  reach  Xewbern. 
However,  there  was  no  molestation,  and  the  regiment  was 
back  in  camp  before  10  a.m.  Some  of  the  men  took  their 
time  after  reaching  the  shelter  of  the  guns  and  came  in  later. 

The  following  graphic  account  of  this  episode  of  garrison 
life  is  from  the  pen  and  recollections  of  Acting  Lieut.  E.  F. 
Wyer  of  Company  E: 


204        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

After  dress-parade,  while  some  were  eating  supper,  we 
were  surprised  by  the  drums  beating  to  the  colors  on  the 
parade-ground,  and  the  order  "  fall  in  "  given  by  the  officers. 
The  enemy  in  force,  with  artillery  and  infantry,  said  to  be  a 
part  of  the  corps  of  D.  H.  Hill,  had  come  to  retake  Newbern, 
just  one  year  from  the  date  of  its  capture  by  the  Federals. 
Two  companies  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts  were  on 
picket  at  Deep  Gully,  six  miles  out,  and,  being  unable  to 
check  the  advance  of  the  Confederates,  had  sent  a  hurried 
order  for  support.  The  Fifth,  in  extra  light  marching  order, 
without  stopping  to  take  overcoats,  blankets  or  haversacks, 
with  only  muskets  and  ammunition,  made  record  time,  cover 
ing  the  most  of  the  distance  at  double-quick.  Forming  line 
in  rear  of  the  pickets,  we  were  ordered  to  make  no  noise  or 
light  any  fires,  but  to  keep  awake  and  alert  for  the  attack  of 
the  enemy,  which  might  come  at  any  moment.  Thus  we 
stood,  each  man  by  himself,  or  huddled  in  groups  of  a  dozen 
or  more,  for  the  warmth  of  each  other's  bodies,  waiting  for 
the  onslaught  or  the  coming  of  the  day.  How  we  longed  for 
the  overcoats  and  blankets  which  we  had  left  in  the  camp! 
About  4  o'clock,  just  in  the  gray  of  early  dawn,  we  heard  a 
furious  cannonading  in  our  rear.  Some  said,  "  Oh!  They  are 
firing  a  salute  in  honor  of  the  capture  of  Newbern,  just  a  year 
ago  today."  I  was  skeptical  about  its  being  a  salute,  having 
noticed  that  the  discharges  were  irregular,  that  they  appeared 
to  come  from  guns  of  different  calibre,  the  reports  indicating 
that  they  were  from  6,  12,  24,  and  100-pound  pieces,  not  a  cus 
tomary  procedure  when  firing  national  salutes.  Just  at  this 
time,  Colonel  Peirson  passed  along,  in  rear  of  the  line,  and  one 
of  Company  E  men  asked  him  if  it  was  not  a  strange  kind  of 
a  salute  they  were  firing.  "  I  should  think  it  was.  It's  my 
opinion  that  we  are  attacked  there."  Colonel  Peirson  was 
instinctively  and  intuitively  a  soldier  of  rare  good  judgment 
and  keen  perception.  It  was  not  long  before  his  opinion  as 
to  the  condition  of  affairs  at  Newbern  was  confirmed  by  the 
arrival  of  one  of  General  Foster's  aides,  he  having  ridden 
furiously  out  with  orders  for  the  Fifth  to  return  with  all 
possible  speed,  as  the  enemy  had  attacked  the  city.  Fort 
Peirson  was  without  a  garrison  and  its  guns  without  men  to 
work  them.  Then  followed  another  race  to  get  back  behind 
the  breastworks  of  the  fort,  which  was  an  earthwork  of  our 
own  building,  under  the  direction  of  General  Foster,  situated 
midwav  between  Forts  Rowan  and  Totten.  It  mounted  four 


MARCH  14,  '63.  NEWBERN.  205 

12-pound  and  two  24-pound  brass  smooth-bore  cannon,  a 
battery  of  English  guns  which  the  sons  of  North  Carolina,  resi 
dent  abroad,  had  purchased  and  presented  to  the  State,  having 
been  first  used  and  captured  by  our  forces  at  the  taking  of 
Newbern.  We  got  back  to  camp  about  10  o'clock,  where 
very  stringent  orders  were  received  from  General  Foster 
forbidding  any  officer  or  enlisted  man  to  go  outside  the  camp 
for  any  reason  whatever,  or  to  permit  any  .one  to  enter,  also 
to  hold  the  fort  at  all  hazards;  should  the  fire  of  the  enemy 
ignite  any  building  or  tent,  to  let  the  same  burn,  and  in  no 
case,  for  any  reason,  allow  a  man  away  from  the  works. 
Things  looked  pretty  serious  to  these  boys  as  they  came  from 
their  all  night's  tour  of  duty  without  food,  drink  or  sleep. 

There  must  have  been  some  reason  for  all  of  the  hurly-burly, 
and  the  explanation  is  that,  apparently,  the  enemy  thought 
he  would  take  a  hand  in  observing  the  anniversary  of  New- 
bern's  capture,  and  would  forestall  the  exercises  that  some  of 
the  regiments  had  prepared  so  carefully.  Across  the  Neuse, 
possibly  half  a  mile  above  the  city,  some  two  months  before, 
at  the  request  of  General  Wessells,  a  small  earthwork  had  been 
thrown  up,  and  here  the  Ninety-second  New  York,  under  the 
command  of  Lieut. -colonel  Anderson,  was  stationed  as  a 
garrison.  The  regiment  had  no  artillery,  but  its  place  was 
supposedly  made  good  by  the  near  presence  of  a  gunboat. 
At  this  particular  time,  the  "Hunchback,"  a  double-ender  ferry 
boat,  mounting  a  cannon  (100  pounds)  at  either  end,  was  pres 
ent.  Early  in  the  morning,  when  the  firing  after  Totten's  signal 
had  begun,  the  Confederates,  under  General  Pettigrew, 
appeared  before  the  fort  of  the  Ninety-second  and  demanded 
its  surrender.  Commander  Anderson  declared  that,  .unless 
ordered  to  do  so,  he  would  do  nothing  of  the  sort,  meanwhile 
sending  back  to  General  Foster  for  directions.  It  is  said  that 
his  reply  to  the  Confederate  was,  "  I'll  surrender  when  you 
take  me,  and  not  before."  It  has  ever  been  a  matter  of 
discussion  and  wonder  as  to  why  the  enemy  did  not  advance 
to  the  assault  at  once,  their  numbers  being  far  in  excess  of 
those  of  the  Federals. 


206        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

The  rebels  finally  opened  on  the  fort  with  grape,  and  upon 
the  gunboat  with  shell  and  solid  shot.  The  Union  soldiers 
behind  their  earthworks  awaited  the  assault,  which  they 
supposed  would  surely  come.  Little  damage  was  done  except 
to  tear  into  shreds  the  tents  of  the  soldiers.  After  awhile 
the  gunboats  got  ready  to  bear  a  part  in  the  melee,  and  then 
affairs  grew  livelier  still.  The  withdrawal  of  the  Confederates 
speedily  followed.  The  foe  had  brought  some  big  guns  with 
them,  with  the  evident  intention  of  bombarding  the  city  from 
the  north  side  of  the  Neuse.  One  of  their  large  guns  had 
been  dismounted  and  burst  by,  it  was  said,  the  explosion  of 
a  100-pound  Parrott  shell  from  the  "  Hunchback."  In  several 
places  about  the  field  excavations  might  be  seen  large  enough 
to  hold  an  ox-cart,  made  by  the  explosion  of  these  great 
missiles.  It  was  not  strange  that  the  rebels  suddenly  thought 
of  some  former  engagements  and  decamped. 

The  principal  local  effect  of  the  attack  and  repulse  was  the 
enforced  deferring  of  the  celebration,  so  long  expected  and 
prepared  for.  Aside  from  the  night's  outing  the  Fifth's 
participation  in  the  fray  was  one  of  listening  principally.  On 
the  16th,  the  Forty-fourth  Massachusetts  took  transport 
(Escort)  for  Washington,  N.  C.,  and  rumors  are  abroad 
that  the  Fifth  will  go  to  Plymouth.  With  the  17th  came  the 
deferred  games  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  invitations 
having  been  extended  to  all  other  bodies  in  Newbern,  especially 
those  from  Massachusetts,  There  was  a  large  delegation  of 
onlookers,  while  the  contestants  themselves  tried  to  climb  a 
greased  pole,  to  catch  a  greased  pig,  to  race  in  sacks,  and  to 
perform  the  many  other  stunts  that  from  time  immemorial 
have  been  sources  of  diversion  on  the  4th  of  July  and  other 
"  days  we  celebrate."  It  was  well  for  the  Twenty-fifth  that 
the  men  laughed  when  they  did,  for  the  very  next  day  they 
were  ordered  away  to  Plymouth.  It  would  seem  that  the 
advance  of  spring  was  stirring  up  both  sides  in  this  war 
between  brothers.  Historian  D.  Waldo  Denny  of  the 


MARCH  24,  '63.  NEWBERN.  207 

Twenty-fifth  wrote  most  glowingly  of  the  kindness  of  the 
band  of  the  Fifth,  which  escorted  the  departing  men  to  the 
wharf. 

The  departure  of  the  Forty-fourth  Regiment  to  Washington, 
and  that  of  the  Twenty-fifth  and  Forty-sixth  to  Plymouth, 
left  the  Fifth  as  the  sole  representative  of  the  brigade  in 
Newbern.  If  possible,  matters  were  more  quiet  than  ever, 
only  the  regular  rounds  of  police  duty  and  drill  to  keep  up  an 
appetite.  During  these  days,  however,  efforts  were  put 
forth  on  the  part  of  Northern  people,  supplemented  by  the 
army,  to  educate  the  negro,  or  rather  to  break  the  shell  of 
ignorance  in  which  for  generations  he  had  been  encased.  One 
of  the  boys  wrote  this  on  the  24th:  "  Went  into  an  old  church, 
now  used  for  a  schoolhouse,  and  found  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  negroes,  old  and  young,  learning  to  read. 
Chaplain  Stone,  'Forty-fifth  Massachusetts,  and  wife  are 
the  chief  teachers,  and  they  have  others  to  assist  them.  I 
stayed  about  half  an  hour  and  was  very  much  pleased.  It 
was  a  rare  sight  to  see  men  from  thirty-five  to  forty  years  old 
in  the  same  class  with  children  of  six  or  eight  years,  the  latter 
rarely  having  a  \vhole  suit  of  clothes."  This  was  the  begin 
ning  of  the  efforts  to  redeem  the  enslaved  population  intellect 
ually,  and  the  same  work  is  still  in  progress,  after  almost  fifty 
years,  and  there  is  so  much  to  be  done.  While  affairs  are  so 
quiet  in  Newbern,  quite  the  contrary  was  the  situation  in 
Washington  on  the  Tar,  whither  the  Forty-fourth  had  gone 
on  the  16th.  In  the  vicinity  of  the  latter  place,  the  Confed 
erates,  under  General  D.  H.  Hill,*  had  assembled  to  the  num 
ber  of  about  14,000  men.  Very  likely  some  of  them  were  the 
very  ones  who  woke  up  the  troops  at  Newbern  on  the  13th 
and  14th.  Luckily  General  Foster  was  present  with  his  1200 


*Likemany  other  distinguished  Confederates,  Lieut. -general Daniel  Harvey 
Hill  was  of  Pennsylvania  antecedents,  though  he  was  born  in  South  Carolina, 
1821,  and  was  graduated  from  West  Point,  1842,  No.  28  in  a  class  of  fifty-six 
members,  in  which  there  \vere  future  Union  officers:  Rosecrans,  Sykes, 
Doubleday,  Pope  and  Newton,  while  Confederates  appeared  in  Gus.  V. 
Smith,  Van  Dorn,  McLaws  and  Longstreet.  Though  conspicuous  in  the 


208        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

men  in  the  beleaguered  city,  and  when  the  trouble  began  on  the 
30th,  continuing  till  the  18th  of  April,  he  was  able  to  so  dispose 
his  forces  as  to  render  the  attacks  of  the  enemy  unsuccessful, 
and  to  necessitate  the  withdrawal  of  the  latter. 


HATTER  AS. 

Company  G,  during  the  month  of  March,  continued  its 
somewhat  monotonous  tour  of  duty  on  Hatteras.  Whatever 
excitement  came  to  the  men  there  was  from  the  ocean,  to  the 
eastward,  rather  than  from  any  proximity  of  the  rebels.  The 
expedition  of  General  Butler  late  in  1861,  followed  by  that  of 
Burnside  in  '62,  had  pretty  effectually  ended  the  hostile 
appearance  along  this  peculiar  part,  not  of  terra  firma,  but 
of  shifting  sands  thrown  up  by  the  sea.  Forts  Clarke  and 
Hatteras  are  garrisoned  by  the  company,  and  detachments 
are  disposed  in  varying  numbers  at  other  points,  including 
the  Light,  several  miles  to  the  northward.  On  the  2d  day  of 
March,  Champney  of  "  G  "  makes  the  following  interesting 
entry  concerning  the  Light  and  its  surroundings: 

This  afternoon  I  walked  out  to  the  extreme  point  of  Cape 
Hatteras,  where  the  breakers  roll  and  toss  in  wild  turmoil  and 
confusion.  Just  before  sunset,  I  went  up  into  the  lighthouse 
with  the  two  keepers  to  see  the  lamp  lit.  It  is  quite  fatiguing 
to  ascend  the  steps  to  the  lantern,  from  which  there  is  a  fine 
view.  To  the  southwest  we  could  look  away  down  to  Hatte 
ras  Inlet.  The  island  is  spread  out  like  a  map  before  us,  with 
all  its  flat,  swampy  surface.  At  this  point  it  seems  wide  and 
woody.  To  the  north,  the  narrow  strip  of  sand  reaches  as  far 
as  the  vision  extends,  with  calm  waters  of  the  Sound  on  one 

Mexican  War,  coming  home  a  Brevet  Major,  he  was  for  the  most  part  a 
teacher  until  the  war  began,  the  same  finding  him  superintendent  of  a 
military  school  in  Charlotte,  N  C.,  though  he  had  been  six  years  in  Washing 
ton  College,  Va.,  at  whose  head  Lee  died  after  the  strife.  He  was  the 
original  Colonel  of  the  First  North  Carolina  Infantry,  and  ranked  as  one  ol 
the  first  of  the  rebel  leaders.  After  the  struggle  was  over,  he  returned  to 
teaching  in  Arkansas  and  Georgia. 


APRIL  1,  '63.  WASHINGTON.  209 

side  and  those  of  the  swelling  ocean  on  the  other.  The  sunset 
was  splendid:  gorgeous  crimson  and  golden  clouds!  The 
lantern  is  an  elaborate  and  expensive  piece  of  workmanship. 
It  is  a  revolving  light  with  a  copper-silver-plate  reflector.  The 
glass  is  very  thick  and  of  the  finest  quality.  The  revolving 
cylinder  is  moved  by  clockwork.  The  light  itself  is  a  triple 
Argand  burner.  As  the  sun  was  setting,  the  refraction  of  its 
rays  in  the  glass  was  beautiful. 

On  the  oth  these  isolated  men  were  favored  with  a  visit 
from  Major  Worcester  and  Act.  First  Lieut.  Wyer,  who  had 
come  down  from  Newborn  on  a  visit.  They  remained  with 
the  detachment  to  dinner.  Much  to  the  disappointment  of 
the  men,  so  comfortably  placed  at  the  Light,  all  save  a  cor 
poral  and  three  privates  had  to  go  down  to  Fort  Clarke  on 
the  28th,  where  they  became  a  part  of  the  routine  at  that 
point.  Capt.  Jas.  E.  Ashcroft,  Company  C,  Third  New  York 
Cavalry,  commands  the  post. 


WASHINGTON. 

April  1st  brought  the  usual  amount  of  All  Fools'  pranks, 
even  though  the  sound  of  cannonading  towards  the  north 
indicated  the  siege  in  progress  at  Washington,  and  there  were 
standing  orders  to  be  ready  to  "'  fall  in  "  at  the  utmost  speed 
on  the  beating  of  the  "  long  roll."  The  second  day,  Thursday, 
11  Fast  Day  at  home,"  as  many  a  boy  remarked  to  his  fellow, 
had  a  short  drill  in  the  morning  and  the  remainder  of  the  time 
was  given  as  a  holiday,  a  recognition  of  Massachusetts  that 
all  appreciated.  The  evening  of  the  3d  brought  orders  to  be 
ready  to  start  in  light  marching  order  at  6  o'clock  the 
next  morning.  Reveille  sounded  at  4.30  on  the  4th,  and 
at  6  o'clock,  according  to  orders,  the  Fifth  was  on  its  way 
through  the  city  and  across  the  Trent  to  embark 
on  the  steam  transport  "  Northerner."  This  was  an 
old  lake  steamer  that  had  seen  its  best  days.  The 
14 


210         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Hundred  and  First  Pennsylvania  also  was  borne  on  this  not 
over-large  vessel,  so  that  room  was  at  a  premium  from  the 
very  start.  There  was  a  large  quantity  of  fixed  shell  on  board, 
and  there  were  from  twelve  to  fifteen  hundred  men  carried, 
so  that  close  quarters  were  in  constant  evidence4.  The  boys 
remarked  that  boxes  of  shells  did  not  make  exactly  soft 
couches,  and  so  like  sardines  were  the  men  packed,  if  one 
wished  to  turn  over  he  had  to  get  up  and  turn  around  to 
effect  his  purpose.  Not  only  were  the  decks  thus  thronged, 
but  the  same  rule  prevailed  through  the  entire  boat.  State 
rooms  were  opened  to  the  men,  but  what  must  have  been  the 
state  in  rooms  where  three  men  were  in  each  berth  and  three 
more  were  on  the  floor?  Leaving  Newbern  about  noon,  the 
"  Northerner  "  steamed  down  the  Neuse  and  into  Pamlico 
Sound,  anchoring  at  9  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

Getting  under  way  at  6  a.m.  of  Sunday,  the  5th,  the  steamer 
proceeded  up  the  Sound  and  river  towards  Washington,  stop 
ping  at  noon  or  before,  where  fourteen  other  gunboats  and 
transports  were  lying.  Shells  were  thrown  at  intervals  into 
the  enemy's  works  on  the  shore,  but  to  no  great  apparent 
purpose,  until  later  in  the  day  the  gunboat  "  Hunchback  " 
came  along  from  Newbern  and  threw  some  100-pound  shells  into 
the  camps  of  the  enemy,  resulting  in  a  three  hours'  bombard 
ment  by  the  latter's  artillery.  During  the  afternoon  a  flag  of 
truce  appeared  on  the  east  shore  of  the  river  and  a  boat  was 
directed  thither,  and  returning,  brought  back  two  men  who 
wished  to  be  taken  off,  claiming  to  be  Union  men.  These 
men  stated  that  there  was  a  large  force  of  the  enemy,  some 
3000  men  with  three  batteries,  on  the  right  bank  of  the  river, 
three  miles  above  where  we  were  lying.  As  there  was  some 
firing  in  the  evening,  the  sight  of  flaming  shells  was  one  to  be 
remembered.  Evidently  the  purpose  of  landing  for  reinforc 
ing  or  assault  was  abandoned,  since,  at  11  o'clock  in  the  fore 
noon  of  the  6th,  the  prow  of  the  "  Northerner  "  was  turned 
down  the  stream,  and 'with  a  schooner  in  tow  the  city  of  New 
bern  was  sought  again.  Being  a  slow  steamer,  the  vessel 


APRIL  7,  '63.  WASHINGTON.  211 

anchored  late  in  the  evening  some  miles  short  of  her  destina 
tion,  and  not  till  9  a.m.  of  the  7th  was  the  old  camp  at  Fort 
Peirson  reached. 

To  the  men  cooped  up  within  the  narrow  quarters  of  the 
steamer  the  excursion  from  Newbern  and  return  was  quite 
unintelligible,  but  when  the  whole  story  was  told  later,  reasons 
appeared.  It  will  be  remembered  that,  after  the  menacing 
of  Newbern  on  the  14th  of  March,  General  D.  H.  Hill  moved 
his  forces  to  the  northward  and  laid  siege  to  Washington,  the 
place  whence  the  Tarboro  trip  started.  The  Union  force 
there  was  small,  consisting  principally  of  eight  companies 
each  of  the  Twenty-seventh  and  Forty-fourth  Massachusetts 
regiments,  with  certain  North  Carolina  Union  troops  with 
two  batteries  of  artillery.  The  aggregate  strength  on  the 
morning  of  March  30th  was  1139  men  present  for  duty.  To 
help  out  this  small  force1  in  manning  the  extended  fortifica 
tions  every  able-bodied  negro  was  ordered  into  the  works.  Of 
the  Confederates,  there  were  seventeen  regiments  of  infantry, 
three  of  cavalry  and  forty  pieces  of  artillery.  By  their  good 
fortune  they  had  been  able  to  construct  fortifications  around 
and  opposite  the  city,  and  their  men  were  so  disposed  as  to 
threaten  the  city  from  the  north  as  well.  On  the  31st  the 
surrender  of  the  place  was  demanded,  to  which  the  reply  was, 
"  If  you  want  Washington,  come  and  take  it."  .The  rebels 
were  greatly  surprised  at  finding  that  General  Foster  was 
present  in  person,  they  supposing  him  to  be  in  Newbern. 
Notwithstanding  the  complete  investment,  as  the  enemy 
considered  it,  the  blockade  was  run  on  that  very  day  under 
a  very  heavy  fire  to  the  fleet  below. 

April  1st  the  cannonading  against  the  city  was  terrific. 
Without  detailing  the  events  of  the  siege  it  may  be  stated 
that  it  was  a  case  of  give  and  take,  to  the  complete  satisfac 
tion  of  both  sides,  i.  <?.,  equal  bravery  was  displayed  and  equal 
advantage  was  taken  of  every  opportunity  presented  by  the 
adversaries.  To  throw  reinforcements  into  the  beleaguered 
city  or  to  effect  the  raising  of  the  siege  in  some  manner  was 


212        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  reason  for  the  sending  of  the  regiments  from  Newbern. 
General  Henry  Prince,  to  whom  had  been  assigned  the  command 
of  operations  in  raising  the  blockade,  and  so  relieving  Wash 
ington,  in  his  report,  dated  April  13th,  giving  a  general  state 
ment  of  the  situation,  has  this  to  state  pertinent  to  our  regiment : 

The  "  Northerner  "  arrived  with  the  following  troops  on 
board:  the  One  Hundred  First  Pennsylvania,  Colonel  Morris, 
350  strong;  the  Fifth  Massachusetts,  Colonel  Peirson,  500 
strong;  making  the  whole  number  here — 2500  men.  In 
the  afternoon  the  "  Hunchback,"  Captain  McCann,  arrived, 
having  been  detained  by  boisterous  weather.  The  "Hunch 
back,"  "  Southfield."  and  " :  Whitehead  "  made  a  combined 
attack  on  the  battery  at  6  p.m.  The  battery  replied  with  but 
three  shots,  which  passed  near  the  "  Hunchback." 

Later,  the  General  states,  he  began  to  prepare  the  steamer 
"  Emilie"  by  way  of  interposing  bales  and  boxes  of  clothing 
to  protect  the  boiler  as  she  attempted  to  run  up  to  the  city. 
In  the  morning  of  the  5th,  he  received  dispatches  from  Gen 
eral  Foster  directing  him,  "if  he  found  it  too  risky  to  land  and 
take  the  batteries,"  to  content  himself  with  sending  through 
two  regiments  with  a  plentiful  supply  of  ammunition,  then 
leaving  the  gunboats  to  take  care  of  the  Confederates'  bat 
teries,  "  to  return  at  once  to  Newbern  and,  taking  every  man 
that  can  possibly  be  spared  (five  regiments  are  enough  for  the 
safety  of  Newbern),  march  across  the  country  from  Fort 
Anderson  to  Washington.  I  am  quite  certain  that  you  will 
meet  only  ten  regiments  on  the  way,  and  them  you  can  over 
come.  The  road  from  Fort  Anderson  to  Swift's  Creek  is  bad, 
but  the  rest  is  good."  At  10  o'clock  in  the  evening  comes 
another  order  from  General  Foster,  thus:  "  If  you  cannot 
send  the  two  regiments  through  without  delaying  the  main 
demonstration  and  attack  from  Newbern,  send  only  one,  or 
leave  it  to  be  sent,  and  push  the  other  matter.  It  is  my  belief 
that  the  battery  on  Hill's  Point  will  be  abandoned  on  the 
approach  of  our  forces  at  the  cross-roads,  three  and  a  half 
miles  from  here  on  the  road  to  Newbern." 


APRIL  7,  '63.  SPINOLA'S  TRIP.  213 

After  consultation  with  his  officers,  General  Prince  decided 
that  it  was  "  too  risky  "  to  send  the  "  Emilie  "  through,  and 
ordered  the  One  Hundred  Fifty-eighth  Pennsylvania,  Lieut. - 
col.  Troxel,  to  embark  on  schooners  to  be  towed  up  to  the 
city  by  steamers.  So  far  as  the  report  of  General  Prince  is 
concerned,  we  are  at  liberty  to  suppose  that  this  plan  was 
carried  out,  but  reference  to  the  story  of  "Pennsylvania  in  the 
War  "  reveals  the  interesting  fact  that  Captain  McCann  also 
thought  it  "  too  risky  "to  send  the  vessels  forward  to  what 
he  denominated  "  inevitable  destruction,"  so  the  One  Hun 
dred  Fifty-eighth  went  back  to  Newbern,  to  participate  in 
the  overland  venture  of  the  subsequent  days.  The  General 
states  that  he  sent  through  in  an  open  boat  all  the  six-pounder 
and  three-inch  guns'  ammunition  which  arrived  in  the  "  North 
erner."  With  the  foregoing  explanation  the  narrative  begins 
again  at  Newbern. 


SPINOLA'S  TRIP. 

Though  regular  camp-duties  had  begun  on  the  return,  they 
were  not  to  continue  long,  since  in  the  evening  of  the  7th  came 
orders  to  prepare  four  days'  rations  and  to  be  ready  to  march 
in  the  morning.  That  morning  (the  8th)  began  at  1.30,  when 
the  long  roll  was  beat  and  the  men  fell  into  line.  The  start, 
however,  was  not  immediate,  for  coffee  was  served  and  an 
early  breakfast  followed,  after  which,  still  very  early,  the 
regiment  proceeded  to  the  wharves,  whence  going  aboard 
flatboats,  they  were  towed  across  the  Neuse  to  Fort  Anderson, 
where,  in  the  middle  of  March,  the  rebels  had  undertaken  to 
capture  the  Ninety-second  New  York  and  bombard  Newbern. 
Here  ensued  a  long  wait  while  the  other  regiments  were  cross 
ing,  in  which  time  the  boys  had  a  chance  to  inspect  the  scene 
of  attack  and  successful  resistance.  It  was  afternoon  by  the 
time  the  line  of  march  was  taken  for  Washington.  According 
to  the  report  of  General  I.  N.  Palmer,  then  in  command  at 


214        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Newbern,  the  troops  in  the  expedition  comprised  the  Fifth, 
Seventeenth  and  Forty-third  Massachusetts,  together  with 
certain  other  regiments  of  the  Eighteenth  Corps  (the  regi 
ments  are  not  named)  with  a  considerable  number  of  batteries. 
The  expedition  was  under  the  command  of  General  F.  B. 
Spinola,  a  New  York  politician  and  political  soldier,  commonly 
known  by  the  men  as  General  "  By  Jesus  "  and  General 
"  Dickey,"  the  latter  name  referring  to  his  enormously  tall 
collars,  the  former  to  his  favorite  swear  words.  His  pecu 
liarities  of  dress  and  language  followed  him  through  life, 
which  he  departed,  not  so  very  many  years  ago,  having  been 
for  several  years  a  conspicuous  figure  in  Congress.  After  the 
failure  of  this  relief  trip,  the  men,  by  transposing  the  first 
letter  of  his  name  to  another  place  in  the  first  syllable,  were 
able  to  give  him  a  still  more  significant  nick-name.  Though 
General  Palmer's  very  inadequate  report  does  not  mention 
them,  it  should  be  stated  that  the  troops  on  the  march  also 
included  the  Third  and  Eighth  Massachusetts  and  the  Fifth 
Rhode  Island. 

General  Spinola  summarizes  the  expedition,  led  by  himself, 
to  the  effect  that  he  started  at  3  p.m.  of  the  8th  and  arrived 
at  "Little  Swift  Creek"  at  8  o'clock  in  the  evening,  his  advance 
guards  meeting  the  enemy's  pickets  about  seven  miles  from 
Fort  Anderson.  The  pickets  retreated  without  returning 
fire,  and  a  half  hour  later,  their  alarm  guns  were  heard.  He 
learns  that  the  enemy's  force  consists  in  5000  infantry  and 
1000  cavalry,  strongly  placed  at  Walter  Ruff's  farm,  on  the 
road  leading  to  Blount's  Creek.  He  also  hears  that  the  enemy 
is  strongly  placed  near  Swift  Creek  Bridge,  that  there  are 
other  forces  on  the  road  leading  to  Kinston,  and  he  presumes 
that  the  rebels  are  in  force  at  the  cross-roads  near  Washing 
ton.  If  he  proceeds  he  is  afraid  that  he  will  be  attacked  in  the 
rear  by  the  rebels  at  Ruff's  farm,  that  he  may  be  harassed 
by  the  Confederates  on  the  Kinston  road  and  if,  failing  to 
drive  the  enemy  from  the  cross-roads  near  Washington,  he 
should  be  compelled  to  retreat,  he  could  do  so  only  at  great 


APRIL  9,   '63.  SPIXOLA'S  TRIP.  215 

sacrifice,  if  at  all.  He  learns  that  the  Confederates  about 
Washington  number  22,000,  and  he  believes  the  only  way  to 
relieve  the  besieged  is  by  way  of  Hill's  Point,  whence  our 
regiment  had  just  returned.  He  further  adds  that  his  men 
are  building  a  bridge  across  the  creek.  Writing  again  the 
next  night  at  11.30  o'clock,  he  describes  the  trip  of  fifteen 
miles  to  the  head  of  Blount's  Creek.  He  had  intended  cross 
ing  the  creek,  but  he  found  the  situation  too  difficult  for  him 
and  the  forces  with  him.  He  enumerates  the  strength  of  the 
enemy,  the  character  of  the  defenses  — •  in  a  word,  he  thinks 
the  works  "  impregnable."  The  attack  by  the  Seventeenth 
and  the  Forty-third  Massachusetts  with  Belger's  Battery  is 
flatteringly  mentioned,  but  evidently  thinking  the  venture 
quite  "  too  risky,"  he  announces  his  intention  of  returning 
to  Newborn  on  the  following  day, — another  case  of  marching 
up  the  hill  and  then  marching  down  again.  How  the  trip 
seemed  to  the  men  and  boys  of  the  Fifth  appears  from  their 
letters  and  notes. 

One  veracious  chronicler  says  there  are  fourteen  regiments 
of  infantry  and  some  cavalry,  besides  sixteen  pieces  of  artillery, 
but  all  of  the  regiments  are  very  far  from  being  full,  an  aggre 
gate  of  men  possibly  from  six  to  seven  thousand.  The  roads 
are  at  times  sandy,  occasionally  wet  and  muddy,  but  much 
better  than  those  encountered  on  the  Goldsboro  trip.  The 
Fifth  was  near  the  middle  of  the  column  and  the  day  was  very 
warm.  After  a  march  of  perhaps  ten  miles,  camp  is  pitched 
at  about  9  o'clock  in  the  evening.  The  9th  saw  the  line  under 
way  at  an  early  hour,  much  of  the  route  lying  through  a 
cypress  swamp,  made  passable  by  means  of  cypress  corduroy 
roads,  the  swamps  having,  now  and  then,  island  clearings 
with  the  shanty  homes  of  "  poor  whites."  The  afternoon  was 
well  advanced  when,  after  fifteen  miles'  marching  without 
food  and  few  halts,  Blount's  Creek  was  reached.  It  was  here 
that  ensued  the  sharp  engagement  wherein,  on  our  side,  the 
Seventeenth  and  Forty-third  Massachusetts  and  Belger's 
Battery  had  a  part.  The  trouble  had  begun  with  an  attack 


216        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

by  a  mountain  howitzer  in  the  hands  of  a  detachment  from 
the  Third  New  York  Cavalry,  commanded  by  Lieut.  Burke. 
The  cavalry  was  a  part  of  Colonel  Amory's  Brigade.  Owing 
to  the  position  of  the  ground  it  was  impossible  to  develop  a 
large  force  against  the  enemy,  hence  only  the  above  two  regi 
ments  were  engaged. 

Though  we  succeeded  in  silencing  the  enemy's  battery, 
yet  we  were  unable  to  drive  them  from  their  position,  as  our 
infantry  and  artillery  fire  was  without  effect  upon  them,  owing 
to  the  nature  of  their  earthwork  and  the  position  of  our  guns. 
It  was  equally  impossible  to  enfilade  their  works  or  to  cross 
or  ford  the  creek  at  any  other  point  and,  as  stated  before,  the 
bridge  being  destroyed,  we  were  unable  to  charge  the  enemy 
or  to  build  the  bridge  under  their  heavy  musketry  fire.  Seeing 
that  it  was  impossible  to  cross  the  creek,  I  was  obliged  to 
return,  and  did  so  at  5  o'clock  this  afternoon,  without  being 
molested  in  any  way  by  the  enemy.  (From  Spinola's  letter 
of  the  9th,  written  "  near  New  Hope  School  House.") 

In  justice  to  General  Spinola,  it  should  be  stated  that  he 
was  leading  the  expedition,  not  at  his  own  behest,  but  under 
orders  from  General  Palmer.  We  have  seen  that  General 
Prince  came  back  from  Washington,  directed  to  lead  a  party 
overland  to  the  relief  of  the  invested  city.  The  General,  on 
arrival,  was  attacked  with  something  similar  to  later  "  nervous 
prostration,"  and  declared  himself  unwilling  and  unable  to 
lead.  All  this  appears  in  Spinola's  letter  to  General  Palmer, 
found  in  "  The  Records  of  the  Rebellion,"  Series  I,  Vol. 
XVIII,  pp.  247-252.  Though  Prince  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Military  Academy,  his  long  service  in  the  pay  division 
seems  to  have  unfitted  him  for  fighting.  Whatever  his  lack  of 
success,  Spinola  at  least  was  willing  to  make  a  trial.  In  his 
enumeration  of  troops  he  names  a  large  number  of  regiments 
from  New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  with  artillery,  reaching 
an  aggregate  of  6465  men. 

One  of  the  observers  describes  the  attack  as  made  by  Bel- 
ger's  Battery:  "  Very  soon  the  boom  of  heavy  guns  told  us 


APRIL  11,  '63.  NEWBERN.  217 

we  were  in  for  it  again.  Belger  had  opened  with  his  cannon, 
and  the  rebel  battery  was  replying,  throwing  big  shells  almost 
down  to  our  position.  We  could  hear  them  as  they  crashed 
through  the  trees.  Belger's  horse  was  killed  and  himself 
wounded  by  the  fragment  of  a  shell.  As  he  was  carried  through 
our  lines  he  recognized  one  of  the  men  of  the  Fifth,  saying  to 
him  in  passing,  ' Cholera  medicine  won't  help  this.'  "  It  was 
a  great  surprise  to  the  rank  and  file  when  the  command 
"  About-face  "  was  heard,  and  they  began  to  retrace  their 
steps,  at  the  worst  thinking  it  only  a  movement  for  change 
of  place,  with  the  attack  deferred  to  the  next  day.  At  this 
late  day,  it  is  impossible  to  repress  a  word  as  to  what  any  one 
of  a  dozen  officers  of  note  would  have  done  under  similar 
circumstances.  What  would  have  been  the  course  of  Foster 
himself  had  he  been  with  the  column  instead  of  being  hemmed 
in  at  Washington?  However,  the  retrograde  pace  was  a  swift 
one,  double-quick  some  of  the  way.  So  hard  was  the  retreat, 
notwithstanding  the  supposed  dangers  of  straggling,  many 
fell  out  and  took  their  chances  of  catching  up.  Through  the 
dust  of  the  roads  in  places,  and  the  smoke  of  burning  trees, 
the  rapid  pace  of  the  column  brought  it  back  to  its  starting 
place  of  the  morning  in  four  hours,  and  after  crossing  the 
creek  the  tired  soldiers  encamped.  It  was  somewhat  late  in 
the  morning  of  the  10th  that  the  movement  camp  ward  was 
re-begun,  Lee's  brigade  in  the  rear  reaching  the  banks  of  the 
Neuse  in  the  afternoon,  and  was  expecting  to  pass  the  night 
on  the  north  side,  but  soon  after  dark  there  came  orders  for 
it  to  return  to  Fort  Peirson,  which  it  was  able  to  do  at  about 
11  o'clock  at  night. 


NEWBERN. 

Evidently  the  return  has  not  been  to  a  place  of  continued 
ease  and  rest,  since  the  llth  of  April  brings  orders  to  prepare 
three  days'  rations  again,  and  another  march  looms  up  before 


218         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


APRIL  16,  '63.  XEWBERN.  219 

the  weary  men,  whose  flesh  and  bones  are  still  aching  from 
the  last.  How  badly  used  up  some  of  the  men  are,  appears 
in  the  fact  that  thirty,  or  fully  one-half  of  one  company, 
responded  to  the  surgeon's  call.  Though  the  Chaplain 
preached,  he  was  not  awed  by  the  number  of  his  listeners,  so 
many  of  the  boys  thinking  more  of  preparing  for  inspection, 
as  sure  on  Sundays  as  are  death  and  taxes  in  civil  life,  and  in 
trying  to  gain  some  recuperation  from  recent  exactions. 
Happily  the  rest  period  was  permitted  to  continue  for  a  brief 
time,  the  most  noteworthy  event  of  these  days  being  the 
unfurling  of  the  flag  in  the  afternoon  of  the  16th.  The 
regiment  occupied  three  sides  of  a  square,  inclosing  the  staff, 
with  visitors,  band  and  singers  filling  the  fourth  side.  Prayer 
was  offered  by  the  Chaplain,  a  hymn  was  sung  by  the  choir, 
the  Chaplain  gave  a  short  address  and  then  Colonel  Peirson 
stepped  forward  and  pulled  the  rope  that  released  the  flag, 
which  found  just  wind  enough  to  float  it  gently,  while  the 
choir  sang  "  The  Star  Spangled  Banner  "  and  the  band 
accompanied.  The  Adjutant  proposed  three  cheers  for  the 
flag,  and  after  more  music  by  the  band  and  choir,  the  regi 
ment  was  dismissed.  A  poem  written  by  Private  H.  S.  Everett 
of  Company  H  was  read  by  Lieutenant  Everett  of  the  same 
company.  Colonel  Lee,,  commanding  the  brigade,  was  present 
with  his  staff. 

Private  Everett's  Poem. 

Fling  to  the  breeze  that  brave  old  Flag, 

Long  has  it  prostrate  lain; 
Against  rebellion's  vain  contempt, 

We  will  its  cause  maintain. 

No  star  erased,  no  stripe  obscured, 

Complete  in  every  part; 
Today  we  raise  that  banner  fair, 

So  dear  to  every  heart. 

And  we,  the  sons  of  sires  that  fought 

For  this  same  flag  of  yore. 
Shall  we  prove  recreant  to  their  trust, 

Their  sacrifice  ignore? 


220        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

No!   rather  let  us  emulate 

Their  virtues  and  their  fame; 

Prefer  to  die,  than  purchase  life 
Without  eternal  shame. 

Triumphant  let  this  banner  float, 
To  cheer  our  drooping  hearts, 

Till  glorious  Union  binds  in  one, 
Our  Country's  severed  parts. 


During  these  days  the  siege  of  Washington  continues,  but 
the  end  is  approaching.  The  Fifth  Rhode  Island,  and  the 
story  should  be  told  to  its  everlasting  credit,  chagrined  at  the 
disastrous  ending  of  the  two  efforts  to  relieve  the  defenders 
of  that  city,  had  volunteered  to  risk  the  passage  of  the  enemy's 
batteries.  The  regiment  had  just  returned  with  the  others 
from  the  march  to  Blount's  Creek,  but  the  men  had  voted 
a  willingness  to  undertake  the  trip  by  water.  The  "  Escort  " 
was  at  the  wharf,  so,  muddy  as  they  were,  they  went  on  board 
the  steamer,  and  throwing  themselves  down  upon  the  decks, 
entered  on  one  of  the  pluckiest  incidents  of  the  entire  war.* 
Seventeen  hours  brought  them  to  the  fleet  of  gunboats,  five 
miles  below  the  battery  at  Hill's  Point,  where  there  was  a 
delay  to  make  ready  for  running  the  blockade.  The  Rhode 
Islanders  were  anxious  to  go  ahead  at  once,  but  experience 
had  taught  the  officers  of  the  boat  the  advantage  of  prepara 
tion.  With  the  engine  and  boiler  protected  by  bales  of  all 
sorts,  under  the  protection  of  the  fire  from  the  gunboats,  at 
10  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  the  13th,  Monday,  the  "  Escort  " 
steamed  forward  and  through  a  storm  of  fiery  missiles  reached 
the  landing  in  Washington  at  a  little  before  midnight.  With 
the  steamer  at  the  wharf,  the  chance  to  reach  Newbern  was 
embraced  by  General  Foster,  and  at  5.30  in  the  morning  of 


*It  is  said  that  when  the  proposition  to  attempt  the  relief  of  Washing 
ton  was  made  to  the  regiment,  only  one  man  opposed  it,  yet  when  the  boat 
was  reached  this  man  was  the  first  aboard.  The  Colonel  ordered  him  off, 
saying  that  he  would  have  no  one  along  who  had  not  volunteered.  "It's  all 
right,  Colonel,"  replied  the  man,  "I  meant  to  go  all  the  time,  but  I  didn't 
want  the  vote  to  be  too  damned  unanimous." 


APRIL  15,  '63.  NEWBERN.  221 

the  15th  the  vessel  again  ran  the  fierce  gauntlet  of  the  rebel 
batteries,  looking  like  a  veritable  sieve  when  she  finally  left 
the  Confederates  behind  her,  having  been  hit  by  eighteen 
shot  and  shell,  and  her  upper  decks  were  fairly  riddled  by 
bullets.  Her  faithful  pilot,  Mr.  Padrick,*  lost  his  life  near 
Rodman's  Point.  Given  the  usual  running  time,  the  "  Escort" 
must  have  reached  Newbern  on  the  16th,  and  sounds  of  prep 
aration  for  another  overland  expedition  were  heard  at  once. 
From  General  Foster's  diary  of  the  siege  as  given  in  his  report, 
"  Record  of  the  Rebellion,"  Series  I,  Vol.  XVIII,  p.  215,  the 
following  is  taken: 

April  loth,  at  daylight,  the  "  Escort  "  started  and  ran 
the  batteries  She  was  fired  at  100  times  by  the  Rodman  and 
Hill's  Point  batteries  and  struck  forty  times,  but  with  no 
material  injury.  The  pilot,  Padrick,  a  brave  and  skillful  man, 
was  killed  by  a  rifle  shot.  At  6  a.m.  all  the  batteries  opened 
and  continued  a  heavy  firing  for  an  hour. 

Acting  Lieut.  E.  F.  Wyer,  Company  E,  writes  of  that 
passage  of  the  batteries:  "  The  pilot-house  was  the  target  for 
the  Confederates'  fire,  since  if  they  could  kill  the  pilot,  which 
they  did,  the  boat  would  be  grounded  and  in  their  hands. 
But  there  was  a  colored  man  in  the  crew  who,  it  was  said, 
knew  the  channel,  but  was  so  frightened  he  did  not  wish  to  go 
into  the  wheel-house.  General  Foster  ordered  him  to  take  the 
wheel,  and  standing  beside  him,  pistol  in  hand,  told  the  negro 
that  if  he  ran  the  steamer  aground,  he  would  blow  his  brains 
out."  On  the  authority  of  Geo.  E.  Mitchell,  Company  B,  it- 
is  stated  that  Samuel  Knowlton,  Company  A  of  the  Twenty- 
third,  a  scout  in  the  immediate  employ  of  General  Foster, 


*  General  Foster  in  giving  an  account  of  Padrick's  death  to  one  of  the 
Newbern  officers  said,  "I  had  heard  that  Padrick  was  disloyal  and  that  he 
would  arrange  to  have  me  captured.  Just  before  we  neared  Hill's  Point, 
I  went  into  the  pilot-house  and  revolver  in  hand  stood  by  his  side,  deter 
mined  to  shoot  him  at  the  first  sign  of  treachery.  As  we  were  passing  the 
last  obstruction,  Padrick  had  just  said  to  me,  '  I  reckon  we  are  all  right 
now, '  when  he  was  shot.  He  exclaimed,  '  I'm  killed,  General,  but  by 
God,  I'll  get  you  through!'  I  couldn't  help  it;  I  cried  like  a  baby." 


222        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

when  the  Spinola  Expedition  reached  Blount's  Creek,  did  not 
return,  but  made  his  way  through  to  Washington  and  was  in 
the  wheel-house  with  Foster  after  the  shooting  of  Pilot  Pad- 
rick. 

WASHINGTON. 

Friday,  April  17th,  came  near  being  pay-day;  Major  Jame 
son  was  on  the  grounds  and  the  men  almost  saw  their  precious 
earnings,  when  there  came  the  stern  announcement  to  be 
ready  to  march  in  an  hour.  Military  commands  admit  of 
no  parleying,  they  must  be  obeyed  at  once,  and  the  pay  will 
keep.  By  means  of  the  steamer  "  Allison,"  the  regiment  is 
transferred  to  the  northern  side  of  the  Neuse  once  more  and 
camps  within  sight  of  the  river.  The  road  from  Newbern  to 
Washington  is  becoming  a  thoroughfare.  It  was  opened  by 
Burnside's  men  in  the  spring  of  '62,  and  it  would  seem  that 
an  average  of  a  trip  a  month  had  been  made  in  the  interven 
ing  year.  Some  went  through;  at  least  one  did  not.  Perhaps 
had  communication  between  the  two  cities  been  of  the  quickest 
and  best,  General  Foster  would  not  have  started  on  this  par 
ticular  expedition,  since,  when  these  men  are  starting  on 
another  march,  the  Confederates  are  retiring  from  their 
intrenchments  around  Washington,  a  fact  to  be  withheld  from 
the  Federals  until  they  reach  the  fortifications  themselves. 
The  start  towards  Washington  was  made  at  8  a.m.  on  the 
18th  and  the  march  was  pretty  steady  all  day,  reaching 
Blount's  Creek,  the  terminus  of  the  recent  expedition,  at 
about  sundown.  While  all  accounts  agree  as  to  the  difficul 
ties  of  the  route,  estimates  as  to  distance  traveled  range  from 
twenty-five  to  thirty  miles.  Near  the  camping-place  is  a 
grain  and  saw-mill  with  large  quantities  of  lumber.  An  inspec 
tion  of  the  fortifications  erected  by  the  enemy,  and  which 
General  Spinola  concluded  not  to  attack,  convinced  the 
observers  that  there  would  have  been  the  liveliest  kind  of  a 
fight  had  General  Foster's  orders  been  executed. 


APRIL  20,  '63.  WASHINGTON.  223 

The  withdrawal  of  the  Confederates  relieved  our  forces  of 
the  necessity  of  trying  to  drive1  them  out,  but  they  had  not 
gone  so  far  that  they  could  not  impede  our  advance  on  the 
19th.  Their  rear  guard  of  cavalry  would  halt,  face  about 
and  apparently  prepare  to  charge  upon  us,  causing  our  nearest 
troops  to  stop  and  form  line  to  receive  them;  then  they  would 
be  off  again,  leaving  the  Union  force  to  advance  once  more. 
While  interesting  and  exciting,  the  same  was  not  conducive 
to  a  rapid  forward  movement.  One  observer  comments  on 
improved  conditions  in  the  country  through  which  they  are 
passing,  there  also  being  plentiful  indications  of  the  recent 
presence  of  the  enemy.  Towards  night,  line  of  battle  was 
formed  in  front  of  Fort  Hill,  but  investigation  showed  that 
the  rebels  had  departed.  During  the  day  a  Confederate  major 
and  several  men  were  raptured,  along  with  a  Confederate 
flag.  So  completely  had  this  section  been  denuded  of  pro 
visions,  our  own  haversacks  in  some  cases  furnished  food  for 
the  famished  natives,  who  could  not  understand  how  we 
should  be  so  well  supplied  while  the  rebels  were  lacking. 
Camp  was  pitched  scarcely  more  than  two  or  three  miles 
from  Washington.  Though  the  distance  passed  over  was  not 
more  than  thirteen  or  fourteen  miles,  the  march  had  been  an 
exciting  and  wearisome  one. 

Early  in  the  morning  of  the  2()th,  the  regiment  was  splash 
ing  through  the  mud  of  a  swamp,  not  a  rare  thing  in  this  part 
of  the  country,  on  our  way  to  a  bridge  which  spans  the  Tar 
River  and  by  means  of  which  we  crossed  and  marched  into 
the  long-besieged  city.  We  passed  right  through  Washington 
and  camped  in  a  cornfield  on  the  further  side.  Finding  near  by 
a  storehouse  filled  with  lumber,  we  proceeded  to  appropriate 
and  to  build  a  small  city  of  our  own,  but  ere  we  could  use  the 
same  to  any  great  extent,  we  were  ordered  back  into  the  city 
itself,  wdiere  we  were  assigned  quarters,  E  and  H  finding 
theirs  in  a  large  edifice,  containing  a  theatre  and  a  Masonic 
Hall,  H  being  initiated  into  Masonry,  while  E  acted  its 
role  in  the  theatre.  A,  I  and  K  were  in  an  unoccupied 


224        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

building  known  as  Farmer's  Hotel;  Company  B  was  on  picket 
along  the  Greenville  road.  In  reference  to  this  successful 
effort  to  reach  Washington,  General  Foster  in  his  report  to 
General  H.  W.  Halleck,  then  General-in-Chief,  says  that  as 
an  accompaniment  to  the  movement  he  had  sent  General 
Prince  on  a  march  with  something  of  a  force  towards  Kinston, 
and  Spinola,  with  the  latter's  brigade,  was  ordered  to  take 
the  direct  road  to  Washington,  by  way  of  Swift  Creek,  while 
he  (Foster)  and  his  force  took  the  route  already  stated.  "  The 
movement  toward  Kinston  with  this  latter  movement,  to 
gether  with  the  enemy's  information  of  the  accession  of  strength 
by  Heckman's  brigade,  and  the  fact  that,  after  fourteen  days 
of  close  siege  of  Washington,  General  Hill  had  failed  to  obtain 
a  single  advantage,  or  to  advance  one  step  nearer  his  object, 
in  all  probability  caused  him  to  retreat."  Another  version  of 
the  withdrawal  is  that  the  plans  were  forming  for  the  annual 
spring  campaign  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  Chancel- 
lorsville  is  less  than  two  weeks  away.  While  the  test,  under 
that  name,  could  not  be  known  to  either  Hill  or  Lee,  yet  expe 
rience  taught  them  that  a  union  rather  than  a  dispersing  of 
forces  was  then  desirable.  At  any  rate  the  siege  was  raised, 
and  the  much-afflicted  Washington  was  again  wholly  in  Union 
hands. 

An  incident  of  the  entrance  of  the  overland  troops,  specially 
interesting  to  the  Fifth,  was  the  discovery  among  the  citizens 
of  a  former  Woburn  man,  long  resident  in  the  place.  As  soon 
as  it  became  evident  that  all  prospects  of  success  on  the  part 
of  the  rebels  had  vanished,  the  people  began  to  proclaim  their 
undying  devotion  to  the  flag,  among  them  a  man  by  the  name 
of  Fowle,  for  generations  an  honored  patronymic  in  Woburn. 
It  appears  that  the  lumber-mill  and  storehouse  where  the 
men  of  the  Fifth  had  made  themselves  comfortable  were  the 
property  of  this  individual.  An  elderly  man,  he  appeared  at 
the  mill,  early  in  the  morning,  saying  that  he  was  Massachu 
setts  born,  son  of  William  Fowle  of  Woburn,  who  had  been  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolution,  that  he  was  proud  of  his  lineage  and 


APRIL  21,  '63.  WASHINGTON.  225 

of  the  Old  Bay  State,  which  he  had  left  some  thirty-five  years 
before,  to  establish  a  home  in  North  Carolina,  where  he  had 
secured  a  competence.  The  war,  however,  had  proved  his 
undoing,  his  thirty-five  slaves  had  left  him,  his  most  intelligent 
and  trusted  house-servant  even  then  was  serving  General  Fos 
ter,  for  all  of  which,  and  much  more,  he  claimed  protection 
for  his  family  and  property,  forgetting  to  say  that  the  members 
of  his  family  were  uncompromising  in  their  hostility  to  the 
Union  Government,  and  that  his  son  was  then  serving  as 
Adjutant-general  on  the  staff  of  General  Zebulon  Vance. 
Though  the  Woburn  Phalanx  (G)  was  at  Hatteras,  its  first 
Orderly-sergeant,  E.  F.  Wyer,  then  Acting  Lieutenant  in  Com 
pany  E,  was  on  hand,  and  was  interested  in  this  revelation 
of  a  fellow  townsman. 

Active  Yankee  boys  spent  a  considerable  part  of  the  21st 
in  thoroughly  inspecting  the  scenes  made  famous  in  the  pre 
ceding  days,  and  in  scraping  acquaintance  with  the  natives, 
old  and  young.  One  young  man  comments  on  the  innate 
rebellion  evident  in  some  of  the  youngsters,  and  one  name  he 
immortalizes  in  the  amber  of  his  notes,  saying  that  George 
Evans  Crabtree  is  the  smartest  of  them  all.  The  day  was 
pleasant  and  the  visitors  made  the  most  of  it.  One  of  the 
interesting  finds  of  the  explorers  was  the  following  message 
posted  on  a  tree : 

Yankees — We  leave  you,  not  because  we  can't  take  Wash 
ington,  but  because  it  is  not  worth  the  taking.  Besides,  the 
man  who  lives  here  must  be  amphibious.  We  leave  you  a  few 
bursted  guns,  a  few  stray  solid  shot,  and  a  man  and  a  brother, 
rescued  from  the  waves  to  which  he  was  consigned  in  a  fray 
with  his  equals.  We  compliment  the  plucky  little  garrison 
of  the  town,  and  also  salute  the  pilot  of  the  "  Escort."  Yours, 
Company  K,  Thirty-second  North  Carolina  S.  T. 

The  words  "  man  and  brother  "  referred  to  the  body  of  a 
brave  negro  who  jumped  into  the  water  and  shoved  off  a 
grounded  boat,  thus  saving  the  lives  of  several  of  our  men. 

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226         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

The  incident  was  incorporated,  years  later,  by  Anna  Dickin 
son  in  "  What  Answer?"  she  making  the  hero  exclaim  as  he 
leaped  overboard,  "  Somebody's  got  to  die  to  get  out  of  dis," 
and  he  was  the  man.  Early  in  the  morning  of  the  22d,  the 
Fifth  and  the  Seventeenth  went  on  board  the  thoroughly 
ventilated  "  Escort,  "  the  Forty-fourth  taking  the  "  Thomas 
Colly er,"  and  at  nightfall  the  men  were  again  in  their  old 
Newbern  camping-place. 

NEWBERN. 

Thursday,  the  23d,  brought  the  completion  of  the  event 
just  begun  on  the  17th,  and  the  four  months'  pay  that  Major 
Jameson  left  with  the  regiment  gladdened  not  alone  the 
immediate  recipients,  but  hundreds  of  homes  in  the  distant 
homeland.  Still  the  soldiers  retained  enough  to  make,  as  one 
of  them  says,  "  the  sutler  the  most  popular  man  in  the  camp." 
There  followed  several  days  of  regular  drill  and  garrison  duty, 
into  which  all  had  to  enter  immediately  on  reaching  camp. 


CORE  CREEK. 

Thus  time  passed  until  late  in  the  evening  of  the  26th, 
when  orders  came  to  be  ready  to  march  at  daylight  the 
following  morning.  The  27th  dawned,  but  the  start  was  not 
made  till  9  o'clock,  and  the  regiment  was  not  clear  of  New 
bern  till  pretty  near  night.  Of  course  few,  if  any,  knew  the 
object  or  the  destination  of  the  trip,  but  their  surprise  as  well 
as  their  pleasure  was  great  on  being  embarked  on  platform 
cars  along  with  the  Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts,  and  two 
companies  of  the  Forty-sixth,  and  all  steaming  westward 
towards  Kinston.  Of  course  other  troops  were  enlisted  in 
the  same  enterprise,  as  the  brigade  of  General  Amory,  the 
Fifty-eighth  Pennsylvania,  a  section  of  Riggs'  Battery 


APRIL  28-30,  '63.  CORE  CREEK.  227 

and  a  company  of  the  Third  New  York  Cavalry.  Leaving 
the  cars  at  Batchelder's  Creek,  we  had  a  straightaway  march 
of  ten  or  twelve  miles  in  the  rain,  carrying  three  days'  rations 
and  100  rounds  of  ammunition,  reaching  Core  Creek  at  mid 
night.  Other  parts  of  the  force  advanced  by  other  routes  so 
as  to  give  an  exaggerated  appearance  of  strength.  There  was 
a  heavy  rainfall  during  the  forenoon  of  the  28th,  and  men 
made  themselves  as  comfortable  as  possible  beneath  the 
shelter  of  their  rubber  blankets.  In  the  afternoon  the  engage 
ment  of  Wise  Forks  or  Dover  Cross  Roads  was  fought,  in 
which  nearly  all  of  the  expedition  bore  a  part  except  the  Fifth, 
it  apparently  being  held  in  reserve.  Of  the  29th  one  writes: 
"  Lay  still  in  the  camp  all  the  forenoon.  Two  cavalrymen 
were  shot  by  the  guerrillas  not  a  great  distance  from  camp. 
It  created  a  deal  of  excitement.  An  alarm  towards  night 
proved  groundless."  April  30th  began  with  a  detail  of  Com 
panies  E  and  H  for  picket  duty,  but  the  order  was  soon 
countermanded  that  they  might  accompany  the  regiment 
on  a  reconnoissance  along  the  river  road.  In  his  report  Colo 
nel  Peirson  mentions  cautious  skirmishing  with  rebel  pickets, 
until  near  the  works  which  commanded  the  railroad  and  the 
Dover  road,  about  ten  miles  from  camp.  "  After  reconnoiter- 
ing  about  one  and  one-half  hours  and  drawing  their  fire,  I 
found  the  enemy  in  strong  force.  I  then  retired  agreeably 
to  my  instructions."  The  immediate  cause  of  this  otherwise 
peculiar  episode  was  said  to  have  been  an  effort  to  keep  the 
enemy  busy  while  our  engineers  were  making  surveys  for 
a  topographical  map  of  the  locality.  This  version  is  borne 
out  in  a  letter  from  General  I.  N.  Palmer  to  Colonel  Peirson, 
the  former  not  being  accustomed  to  throw  many  bouquets 
towards  the  Bay  State.  In  addition  to  complimenting  the 
Colonel  and  his  command  for  their  services  in  the  reconnois 
sance,  he  takes  occasion  to  say:  "The  General  commanding 
the  division  desires  to  compliment  Sergeant  Charles  Brigham 


228        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

of  Company  K,  Fifth  Regiment,  M.  V.  M.,  for  the  well  exe 
cuted  topographical  sketch  which  accompanied  your  report 
of  the  3d  inst." 

May  day  found  the  regiment  in  the  vicinity  of  Core  Creek, 
and  the  day  itself  was  not  "  uncomfortably  "  warm,  though 
more  so  than  it  is  wont  to  be  in  Massachusetts.  Whatever 
the  object  of  the  expedition,  the  end  of  it  had  arrived,  for 
after  marching  about  three  miles  across  to  the  railroad,  cars 
were  taken  for  Newbern,  though  some  of  the  soldiers  had 
grown  to  denominating  it  as  "  home,"  having  been  there  so 
long.  They  even  remark  on  the  disagreeableness  of  such 
frequent  departures. 

HATTERAS. 

During  the  month  of  April,  Company  G  was  still  at  Hat- 
teras,  having  no  part  in  the  varieties  of  the  regimental  life 
at  Newbern  and  the  surrounding  country,  though  the  men 
there  are  learning  more  about  the  sea  and  its  moods  than  they 
had  ever  dreamed.  When  the  wind  blew  hard,  as  it  was 
inclined  to  do  the  greater  part  of  the  time,  the  sand  "  blows 
into  all  the  cracks  and  crevices,  fills  the  bunks,  gets  into  our 
victuals,  blinds  our  eyes  and  torments  us  in  every  possible 
manner."  The  wind  and  waves  at  times  would  force  the 
waters  over  the  bar,  cutting  new  channels  and  seemingly 
endangering  the  very  quarters  of  the  men,  yet  the  same 
chronicler  writes  of  the  men  dancing  when  the  waves  were 
almost  upon  them.  "  Sand  and  fine  sand!  The  air  is  filled 
with  it!  Everything  covered!  Eyes,  ears,  nose,  mouth  filled! 
Awful!  Terrible!  Cold!  It  seems  as  though  this  was  the 
worst  place  in  the  world.  "  April  8th  a  squad  from  the  com 
pany  with  an  equal  number  of  Buffaloes  (native  and  loyal 
North  Carolinians)  went  aboard  the  tug  "  James  Murray," 
having  with  them  a  12  pound  cannon,  and  went  over  the  Sound 
to  Juniper  Bay,  on  a  sort  of  reconnoissance,  and  for  the  pur- 


FEB. -APRIL,  '63.  PLYMOUTH.  229 

pose  of  bringing  off  certain  loyal  families.  The  locality  was 
known  as  Poplar  Ridge  and  the  excursion,  though  enjoyable 
to  those  taking  part,  was  quite  devoid  of  incident,  all  parties 
returning  on  the  10th.  April  26th,  Captain  Grammer  went 
to  Newbern  and  returned  on  the  30th.  Of  the  deeds  and 
travels  of  the  other  companies,  nominally  at  Newbern,  these 
men  at  Hatteras  had  only  rumors. 


PLYMOUTH. 

When  Company  G  was  sent  away  to  Hatteras,  a  special 
order  was  also  issued  to  the  effect  that  Company  D,  Captain 
Howard,  would  proceed  to  Elizabeth  City  as  escort  to  Gen 
eral  I.  N.  Palmer.  From  those  who  made  up  the  party  which 
left  Newbern  on  the  22d  of  February,  steamer  "  Escort,"  it 
appears  that  there  was  a  stop  at  Roanoke  Island,  where 
General  Palmer  inspected  the  post,  and  thence  proceeded 
directly  to  Plymouth,  relieving  Company  I  of  the  Third 
Massachusetts,  which  was  sent  to  Elizabeth  City.  Possibly 
the  latter  fact  may  account  for  the  disparity  between  the 
order  and  its  execution.  There  was  a  quartette  of  excellent 
singers  on  board  the  steamer,  and  they  serenaded  General 
Palmer  the  first  evening  while  steaming  up  Pamlico  Sound. 
On  reaching  Plymouth,  quarters  were  found  for  the  company 
at  the  Custom  House,  and  these  were  retained  throughout 
the  stay.  The  garrison,  in  addition  to  the  company,  included 
two  companies  of  the  Twenty-seventh,  G,  Capt.  R.  R.  Swift 
and  H,  Capt.  C.  D.  Sandford;  a  section  of  the  Twenty-fourth 
New  York  Battery,  Capt.  A.  Lester  Cady,  commanded  by 
a  lieutenant;  some  troops  composed  of  native  North  Caro 
linians,  all  under  the  command  of  Major  W.  G.  Bartholomew 
of  the  Twenty-seventh.  Besides,  there  were  in  the  river 
(Roanoke)  several  gunboats,  commanded  by  Capt.  C.  H. 
Flusser,  who  was  to  lose  his  life  a  few  months  later  very  near 


230        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

here  in  the  famous  ram  "  Albemarle  "  encounter.  When  the 
seven  companies  of  the  Twenty-fifth  appeared  in  March, 
Major  Bartholomew  was  superseded  by  Colonel  Josiah 
Picket  of  the  latter  regiment.  Of  the  native  soldiers,  the  new 
comers  did  not  entertain  the  highest  opinion,  one  saying  that 
only  one  enlisted  man  could  read,  and  he  drew  the  rations 
simply  on  account  of  the  foregoing  fact.  Lieut.  C.  P.  Whittle 
of  the  company  became  Acting  Assistant  Quartermaster  of 
the  post,  and  Private  W.  A.  Hardy  his  Acting  Assistant 
Quartermaster  Sergeant. 

Aside  from  issuing  rations  to  the  soldiers,  the  same  were 
given  out  to  the  "  contrabands  "  who,  from  200  to  300  strong, 
thronged  the  place.  When  they  became  too  numerous,  they 
were  passed  along  to  Roanoke  Island.  Moreover,  once  a 
month  there  was  a  visitation  of  from  75  to  100  poor  whites 
who  came  from  all  the  country  round.  '"  They  beggared  Fal- 
stafFs  famous  recruits,  carrying  away  their  rations  in  the  arms 
of  old  coats,  pant-legs,  etc.  As  payment,  we  received  the 
pleasing  knowledge  that  their  men-folks  were  in  the  rebel 
army,  trying  to  kill  us,  while  we  fed  the  starving  families. 
How  merciful  was  Uncle  Sam!"  During  the  stay  of  Company 
D,  it  went  on  several  expeditions,  two  of  which  were  con 
ducted  by  "  D  "  alone.  The  first  was  made  in  row-boats  to 
Edenton,  on  Albemarle  Sound,  near  the  mouth  of  Chowan 
River,  to  destroy  certain  saltworks  of  great  value  to  the 
enemy.  The  object  was  attained  without  resistance.  Another 
trip,  under  Captain  Howard,  was  into  the  neighboring  region 
for  the  purpose  of  capturing  a  seine,  which  being  set  in  the 
Roanoke  and  operated  by  a  Plymouth  citizen,  furnished  fresh 
fish  for  the  troops.  Another  raid  was  made  up  the  Roanoke, 
two  gunboats  with  one  of  the  Twenty-seventh's  companies, 
and  "  D  "  all  proceeding  about  six  miles  above  Plymouth, 
where  the  enemy  had  begun  to  throw  up  earthworks.  After 
shelling  the  place  the  troops  and  crews  landed  and  captured 
some  tobacco,  live  pigs  and  poultry. 


MAY  21,  '63.  GUM  SWAMP.  231 

As  a  general  headquarters  for  the  Union  fleet  in  the  Albe- 
marle  and  Pamlico  Sounds,  Plymouth  was  an  important  sta 
tion,  and  was  threatened  repeatedly,  a  considerable  force  of 
the  Confederates  being  encamped  within  a  few  miles  of  the 
place.  Without  the  assistance  of  the  neighborly  gunboats 
the  post  could  not  have  been  held,  as  was  plainly  shown  the 
following  year,  when  so  many  Union  soldiers  were  captured  in 
a  vain  attempt  to  hold  it.  The  rebels  were  specially  in  evi 
dence  during  the  siege  of  Washington.  March  20th  came  the 
Twenty-fifth  and  Forty-sixth  regiments,  and  extensive  forti 
fications  were  laid  out  under  the  direction  of  Captain  F.  U. 
Farquhar,  Chief  Engineer  of  the  Eighteenth  Army  Corps. 
New  troops  coming  into  Plymouth,  under  General  H.  W. 
Wessells,  the  force  already  on  duty  was  relieved,  and  embark 
ing  May  3d,  found  itself  again  in  Newbern  the  next  day,  Com 
pany  D  ready  for  all  subsequent  service.  (The  preceding 
account  is  prepared  from  data  furnished  by  First  Sergt.  V. 
Wallberg  and  Private  W.  A.  Hardy.) 


GUM  SWAMP. 

Until  the  21st  of  May  there  was  nothing  in  camp-life  except 
the  routine  of  drill,  guard  duty  and  inspections.  Careful 
scribes  find  nothing  more  entertaining  than  the  fact  that  a 
certain  field  officer  does  not  excel  in  directing  battalion  drill, 
and  that  Colonel  Peirson  finally  has  to  take  his  men  in  hand 
to  obviate  some  evident  defects.  No  fault  is  ever  found  with 
him.  On  the  16th,  there  were  inspection  and  review  by  Gen 
eral  Palmer  and  staff,  always  essential  to  the  physical  and 
moral  well  being  of  military  bodies.  Wednesday,  the  20th, 
brought  the  ominous  orders  for  the  preparation  of  three  days' 
rations,  so  that  all  were  aware  that  another  movement  was 
contemplated.  General  Foster,  in  his  report  to  General 
Halleck,  says  that  the  troops  of  the  enemy  being  constantly 


232         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.   M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

drained  from  this  department  into  Virginia,  and  that  frequent 
depredations  had  been  made  by  the  rebels  from  Kinston  way, 
he  determined  to  make  a  demonstration  towards  the  latter 
place  and  if  possible  capture  the  picket-regiment  of  the 
enemy.  Col.  J.  Richter  Jones  (Fifty-eighth  Pennsylvania), 
commanding  the  outpost,  was  directed  to  attempt  to  surround 
the  Confederates  at  Gum  Swamp  and,  if  successful  in  captur 
ing  them,  to  make  a  demonstration  as  if  in  force,  but  to  make 
sure  of  an  avenue  of  retreat.  He  was  reinforced  by  four  regi 
ments,  four  pieces  of  artillery  and  three  companies  of  cavalry. 
The  immediate  part  of  the  Fifth  is  told  by  one  of  the  men 
to  the  effect  that  we  left  Newbern  about  7  o'clock  a.m.  and 
went  by  rail  some  fifteen  miles,  where  we  waited  for  the 
Twenty-fifth  and  the  Forty-sixth  to  be  brought  up,  thence 
we  crossed  over  to  the  camping  place  of  three  weeks  before 
on  Core  Creek. 

The  story  of  the  affair,  as  gathered  from  the  report  of 
Colonel  Peirson,  is  to  the  effect  that  Col.  H.  C.  Lee,  being 
at  home  on  furlough,  the  command  of  the  brigade  devolved 
on  him,  viz.,  Colonel  Peirson.  It  was  decided  to  send  two 
regiments  by  an  unfrequented  and  circuitous  path  to  the 
enemy's  rear,  while  the  main  column  moved  up  and  engaged 
the  enemy's  attention  and  prevented  his  escape  in  front. 
Both  columns  were  to  arrive  at  the  enemy's  intrenchment 
as  near  daybreak  as  possible  on  the  morning  of  the  22d,  and 
thus  make  a  joint  attack  front  and  rear.  Accordingly,  at 
dusk  of  the  21st,  Colonel  Jones  moved  at  the  head  of  his 
column,  consisting  of  the  Fifty-eighth  Pennsylvania  and  the 
Twenty-seventh  Massachusetts,  which  he  subsequently  joined 
at  the  depot,  and  stealthily  proceeded,  under  cover  of  the  night 
and  by  direction  of  a  faithful  guide,  to  gain  the  enemy's  rear. 
For  thirteen  hours  the  men  of  this  devoted  combination  strug 
gled  through  the  mazes  of  that  almost  impenetrable  swamp, 
emerging  at  9  a.m.  of  the  22d,  as  expected,  behind  the  rebel 
works.  While  moving  steadily  forward,  the  column  came 
near  capturing  General  Matthew  W.  Ransom  (later  and  for 


MAY  22,  '63.  GUM  SWAMP.  233 

many  years  U.  S.  Senator  from  North  Carolina),  who  was  in 
command  of  the  post.  Luckily  for  him  he  saw  the  Union 
force  in  time  to  shout,  "  The  Yankees!  The  Yankees!"  and 
putting  spurs  to  his  horse  galloped  towards  Kinston.  The 
engagement  was  short,  fierce  and  decisive.  According  to  the 
programme,  Colonel  Peirson  and  his  force  advanced,  and  had 
been  for  a  number  of  hours  in  front  skirmishing  and  waiting 
the  promised  cooperation  of  Jones'  men  in  the  rear. 

Resuming  the  report  of  Colonel  Peirson,  we  have  his 
word: 

About  half  past  nine  or  ten  rapid  firing  was  heard  in  rear 
of  the  enemy.  Judging  that  Colonel  Jones  had  succeeded  in 
reaching  the  desired  position,  I  moved  the  Twenty-fifth 
Massachusetts  on  the  right  and  the  Fifth  on  the  left,  and 
ordered  them  to  be  prepared,  if  necessary,  to  charge  the 
intrenchments.  The  Forty-sixth  was  ordered  to  support  the 
Twenty-fifth,  advancing  further  towards  the  front.  Colonel 
Pickett,  commanding  the  Twenty-fifth,  prudently  threw  for 
ward  skirmishers  to  ascertain  if  the  works  were  abandoned. 
The  skirmishers  reporting  that  the  enemy  had  left  their  first 
line,  I  ordered  forward  the  regiments  rapidly  to  gather  up  the 
fruits  of  the  victory.  On  entering  the  works,  we  met  detach 
ments  of  the  Twenty-seventh  and  Fifty-eighth  bringing  in 
prisoners,  many  of  whom  they  had  captured  in  brilliantly 
charging  them.  Detached  squads  were  sent  into  the  swamps 
to  hunt  out  and  capture  those  of  the  enemy  who  were  there 
concealed.  Nearly  200  prisoners  were  taken  out  of  a  force 
from  600  to  700.  The  escape  of  so  many  was  owing  to  the 
fact  that  the  Twenty-seventh  and  the  Fifty-eighth  did  not 
exactly  join,  and  more  than  half  of  the  rebels  got  through  the 
open  place.  As  soon  as  possible,  the  cavalry  was  ordered 
forward  in  pursuit,  but  the  Confederates  had  too  great  a 
start, 

It  was  not  long  before  the  enemy  was  sufficiently  reinforced 
from  Kinston  to  enable  him  to  return  the  attack,  to  which  our 
artillery  replied  in  kind.  At  10  o'clock  p.m.  the  Union  troops 
recrossed  Core  Creek  and  encamped  for  the  night,  undisturbed 
by  the  enemy.  On  the  23d,  Colonel  Jones  with  the  Fifty- 


234        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS, 

eighth  Pennsylvania,  the  artillery  and  cavalry,  moved  down 
the  Dover  road  to  Batchelder's  Creek  without  molestation 
from  the  enemy.  Lee's  brigade  under  Colonel  Peirson  took 
the  cross-road  leading  to  the  railroad,  distant  some  three 
miles.  Information  being  received  that  the  rebels  were  com 
ing  in  sufficient  force  to  dispute  the  passage,  it  was  determined 
to  avoid  them,  since  a  victory  then  could  bring  no  advanta 
geous  results.  It  was  determined  to  bear  off  to  the  left  and 
thus  reach  the  railroad  by  a  shorter  route  through  the  woods 
and  swamp.  Unfortunately  the  depths  and  extent  of  that 
swamp  no  one  in  the  party  knew.  Some  say  that  mortal  man 
never  went  through  it  before,  and  many  are  equally  positive 
that  no  man  in  his  senses  will  ever  thread  its  mazes  again.  In 
the  annals  of  regiments  that  plunged  into  the  slough,  that 
warm  day  in  May,  the  passage  has  a  prominent  place  as  the 
"  Gum  Swamp  "  incident. 

One  of  the  Fifth  thus  tells  the  story  of  that  fearful  ordeal: 

The  swamp  was  one  typical  of  North  Carolina.  The  mud 
was  knee-deep  (in  places  waist-deep),  the  brambles  thick  and 
thorny,  the  water  coffee-colored,  alive  with  creeping  things, 
the  air  heavy  with  moisture  and  foul  odors.  Through  it  the 
men  fought  their  way,  stumbling  and  falling,  marching  some 
times  when  asleep  from  weariness,  and  all  this  within  sound 
of  the  whistle  of  the  locomotive  attached  to  the  train  waiting 
to  carry  the  men  back  to  Newbern.  At  last  the  shore  was 
found  and  the  exhausted  men  crawled  out  to  the  railroad 
track  and  the  train.  Men  could  hardly  go  through  a  worse 
experience  and  live.  So  far  as  garments  were  concerned,  eyes 
seldom  looked  upon  a  sorrier  sight  than  they  presented  when 
they  reached  their  camp.  The  color  and  texture  of  their 
garments  could  hardly  be  told,  because  of  the  mud  upon  them. 
The  clothes  themselves  were  torn  into  tatters  by  the  briers  of 
the  swamp.  They  were  the  blackest  lot  of  white  men  that 
were  ever  seen.  Many  a  man  left  in  that  swamp  his  health, 
and  has  never  recovered  it.  Some  sank  under  their  distresses 
and  were  helped  out  by  their  stronger  comrades. 


MAY  23,  '63.  GUM  SWAMP.  235 

Captain  D.  Waldo  Denny,  historian  of  the  Twenty-fifth, 
presents  the  scene  most  graphically,  calling  his  sketch,  "  In 
thePocosin  ": 

It  was  four  miles  of  mud  and  slush,  knee-deep — four 
miles  of  thick  underbrush,  of  tangled  wild-wood,  of  brambles, 
of  thorny  copses,  of  water  courses  and  stagnant  pools  alive 
with  creeping  things,  and  crawling  things — of  snakes  that 
hissed  and  adders  that  forced  their  villainous  tongues  into 
sight,  if  not  into  legs.  Through  this  terrible  place  we  cut  and 
slashed  our  way,  slowly,  tediously,  grievously.  The  sun,  as 
if  to  make  our  effort  more  unendurable,  poured  down  its 
burning  rays,  and  not  a  breath  of  air  came  through  the  thick 
foliage  to  our  relief.  Exhausted  from  fatigue  and  burning 
with  heat,  the  men  called  for  water — "give  me  water."  They 
scooped  up  the  thick  mud  water  in  their  tin  dishes,  water 
black  with  the  poisonous  roots  and  the  slime  of  the  swampy 
pools,  and  covering  the  dish  with  a  dirty  towel  or  a  long- 
carried  pocket  handkerchief — anything  that  could  be  utilized 
as  a  strainer,  sucked  the  black  water  into  the  stomach.  Oh, 
the  horrid  taste,  as  if  drinking  pulverized  snakes  and  lizards; 
and  oh,  how  it  griped,  and  served  like  an  emetic  or  purgative 
•upon  those  who  imbibed  the  noxious  compound.  Not  even 
the  hellish  draught  compounded  by  the  witches  in  "Macbeth" 
could  have  been  more  repulsive  than  this  which  some  men 
essayed  to  drink  in  the  Dover  swamp. 

As  trophies  of  the  expedition,  Colonel  Peirson  reported  165 
prisoners,  28  horses,  10  mules  with  wagons,  ambulances, 
harnesses,  saddles,  11, 000  rounds  of  ammunition,  a  12-pound 
howitzer  with  limber.  Not  all  the  troops  returned  with 
Lee's  brigade.  Two  companies  remained  at  the  bridge  over 
Batchelder's  Creek,  where  they  were  attacked  in  the  after 
noon  by  the  enemy,  but  they  held  their  position  until  the 
arrival  of  Captain  Tifft  (Forty-sixth)  and  a  section  of  Riggs' 
Battery,  which  was  on  its  way  to  Newbern.  In  this  engage 
ment,  Sergt.  A.  S.  Bryant  of  Company  A  (Forty-sixth)  so 
distinguished  himself  as  to  win  a  medal  of  honor.  The  cool 
ness  and  rapid  firing  of  Capt.  Lewis  A.  Tifft  so  impressed  the 
enemy  with  a  belief  in  the  size  of  his  detachment  that  he  was 


236        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

able  to  hold  back  the  rebels  until  the  arrival  of  Colonel  Jones 
of  the  Fifty-eighth  Pennsylvania,  and  Companies  D  and  I  of 
his  regiment.  Colonel  Jones  ordered  the  rebuilding  of  the 
bridge  while  he  and  his  companies  advanced  up  the  road. 
He  had  been  informed  that  the  Confederates  were  present  in 
force,  but  he  gave  no  attention  to  the  knowledge.  With  his 
orderly  he  had  advanced  a  short  distance  across  the  bridge 
when  his  breast  was  pierced  by  a  bullet,  fired  by  a  sharp 
shooter  concealed  behind  the  chimney  of  a  house  some  rods 
away.  The  death  of  this  officer,  brave  to  imprudence,  was 
deeply  mourned  by  all  the  troops.  The  enemy  made  no 
further  attack  at  this  point. 


NEWBERN. 

That  washing  up  and  trying  to  look  decent  again  formed 
a  large  part  of  the  soldiers'  time  after  the  "  Gum  Swamp  " 
experience,  goes  without  saying.  The  men  were  tired,  hungry 
and  thereby  appreciative  of  the  well-earned  rest  that  the 
return  to  camp  afforded,  but  Death,  the  great  destroyer,  rested 
not,  and  the  24th  called  out  the  entire  regiment,  or  that  portion 
still  in  Newbern,  for  the  funeral  of  Corporal  Benjamin  G. 
Blanchard,  Jr.  (Company  H),  who  died  only  the  day  before. 
Comment  is  made  on  the  amount  of  illness  in  the  regiments, 
there  being  more  cases  of  sickness  than  at  any  former  time. 
Notwithstanding  recent  exactions,  there  was  still  work  for 
the  Fifth  to  do,  and  on  Monday,  the  25th,  came  orders  to 
break  camp  on  the  morrow,  and  be  ready  to  take  transports 
for  Wilkinson's  Point,  there  to  build  a  fort.  Apparently 
the  orders  did  not  apply  to  Companies  E  and  B,  they  remain 
ing  for  camp  and  picket  duty.  Thus  six  companies,  under 
command  of  Major  Worcester,  embarked  on  the  gunboat 
"  Allison  "  at  9.30  a.m.  of  the  26th,  and  with  three  cheers  for 
Colonel  Peirson,  steamed  some  twenty  miles  down  the  Neuse 
to  the  point  named,  and  having  anchored  at  1  o'clock  p.m.,  soon 


MAY  27,  '63.  NEWBERN.  237 

after  effected  a  landing  under  cover  of  four  gunboats.  The 
camp  was  pitched  on  a  narrow  sand-bluff,  close  to  the  river, 
the  bluff  being  so  narrow  as  to  afford  scant  room  for  the  tents, 
the  river  bordering  on  one  side,  a  swamp  on  the  other.  At 
this  point  the  Neuse  is  quite  two  and  a  half  miles  wide,  more 
properly  a  sound  than  a  river,  the  water  too  salt  for  drinking. 
The  point  was  a  fishing  station,  and  though  this  was  not  the 
season  for  fishing  with  seines,  the  boys  equipped  themselves 
with  the  latter  and  undertook  to  supply  the  camp  with 
piscatorial  food,  their  success,  however,  being  only  indifferent. 
The  27th  the  men  went  into  the  woods  and  cut  out  a  number 
of  logs  for  use  in  raising  up  their  tents,  but  before  any  consider 
able  advance  was  made  in  establishing  the  camp,  orders  came 
for  a  return  to  Newbern,  so  at  5  p.m.  of  the  28th  the  men 
went  aboard  ship  again  and  at  10  o'clock  were  back  in  their 
old  quarters. 

To  those  who  had  remained,  there  was  work,  and  in  the 
evening  of  the  27th  the  pleasant  duty  of  assisting  General 
Foster  observe  his  39th  birthday.  Music  was  furnished  by 
the  band  of  the  Fifth,  the  same  having  remained  in  camp,  and 
the  Forty-fourth  Regiment  turned  out  largely.  The  gardens 
of  the  General's  house  were  hung  with  lanterns  and  various 
regimental  colors  helped  adorn  the  house  itself.  The  prisoners 
captured  in  the  affair  of  the  22d  were  not  all  sent  away  at 
once,  hence  there  was  a  chance  for  curious  Yankees  to  get 
acquainted,  chances  that  some  of  them  embraced.  They 
found  the  Confederates  of  a  better  stamp  than  those  taken 
on  the  Goldsboro  tramp,  that  they  were  from  the  elevated 
regions  of  northwestern  North  Carolina,  and  that  they 
effected  to  dislike  the  coast  dwellers  very  much,  calling  them 
"  sand-lappers."  Though  their  garments  were  made  of  cotton, 
butternut  in  color,  they  were  better  than  those  of  former  rebel 
wear.  Inquiry  naturally  rises  as  to  the  trip  of  the  regiment 
down  the  river  arid  its  almost  immediate  return.  No  author 
itative  reason  is  found,  but  surmise  answers  that  General 
I.  N.  Palmer,  in  command  during  the  temporary  absence  of 


238        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

General  Foster,  and  cherishing  a  pique  against  the  Massachu 
setts  men,  undertook  to  make  them  uncomfortable  under  the 
pretext  of  erecting  a  fort  at  Wilkinson's  Point.  On  the  return 
of  General  Foster,  he  quickly  countermanded  the  action  of 
Palmer,  hence  the  return  of  the  Fifth,  and  the  band  that 
played  the  men  back  to  camp  was  glad  to  see  them. 

Reenlistment  is  freely  discussed,  and  a  new  regiment,  to 
be  known  as  the  Second  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery,  to 
be  commanded  by  Major  Jones  Frankle  of  the  Seventeenth 
Massachusetts,  is  projected.  There  was  evident  need  of 
troops  to  care  for  and  man  the  defenses  which  the  men  already 
in  the  field  had  been  constructing.  The  officers,  originally 
commissioned,  were  taken  from  the  Bay  State  organizations 
already  in  the  service.  Considerable  effort  was  made  to 
enthuse  the  men  of  the  Fifth  in  the  proposition,  but  with  not 
the  best  of  success.  It  was  about  this  time  also  that  the  men 
on  detail  were  called  in,  a  fact  which  made  the  boys  think  that 
"  going-home  "  was  in  sight.  Friday,  the  29th,  General 
Foster  addressed  the  men  on  the  subject  of  enlisting  in  the 
new  regiment,  saying  he  wanted  one  hundred  and  fifty  men 
from  the  Fifth,  that  every  one  enlisting  should  have  a  thirty 
days'  furlough  home  and  a  bounty  of  $150  besides,  his  pay 
to  continue  all  of  the  time.  On  the  30th,  one  hundred  men 
were  detailed  to  work  on  intrenchments  to  be  dug  from  Fort 
Rowan  to  the  Neuse,  and  orders  were  issued  for  five  companies 
to  go  out  to  Deep  Gully  for  picket  duty.  As  enumerated  in 
the  special  order,  sent  out  by  Adjutant  Eustis,  the  companies 
thus  designated  were  H,  E,  B,  K  and  I.  Captain  Drew  of  H, 
being  the  senior  officer,  was  in  command  of  the  detail. 

Deep  Gully  is  a  chasm  extending  several  miles  to  the  north 
from  the  Trent  River,  having  a  narrow  but  deep  stream  of 
water,  there  being  a  ford  about  half  a  mile  south  of  the  bridge. 
A  substantial  earthwork  had  been  thrown  up  near  the  bridge, 
and  the  Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts  was  on  duty  here  when 
the  episode  of  March  13th  took  place.  Though  the  orders 
called  for  a  4  o'clock  departure,  it  was  after  6  of  the  31st  before 


MAY,  '63.  HATTERAS.  239 

the  start  was  made  and  the  reserve  picket  station  was  reached 
at  9.30  a.m.  some  seven  miles  out.  Here  were  found  four 
companies  of  the  Third  Massachusetts  that  had  come  out 
for  the  same  duty.  After  some  delay  it  was  decided  that  the 
Fifth  would  remain,  and  proper  details  were  made  for  picket. 
Accordingly,  those  detailed  proceeded  to  the  scene  of  real 
outpost  duty,  the  same  being  along  the  eastern  edge  of  the 
gully,  thus  making  the  line  at  right  angles  to  the  Trent  River. 
One  of  the  boys  thus  placed  records  this  of  his  labor  and  obser 
vations:  "  We  saw  no  sign  of  any  enemy.  I  fancy  there  is 
no  considerable  force  of  rebels  this  side  of  Kinston,  except  a 
few  guerrillas.  The  picket  reserve  station  is  two  miles 
nearer  Newbern,  and  there  we  have  first-rate  water.  Black 
mulberries  and  plums  are  quite  plenty  and  there  are  some 
blackberries.  The  camp  is  on  an  old  plantation,  and  the  fruit 
that  we  get  is  from  some  of  the  old  trees  left  standing.  We 
have  built  houses  of  logs  and  branches,  and  things  seem  quite 
convenient  and  comfortable.  We  appreciate  the  absence  of 
restraint  so  prevalent  in  the  Newbern  camp." 


HATTERAS. 

Company  G  in  its  May  days  at  Hatteras  has  not  the  same 
sort  of  activity  that  attends  the  major  part  of  the  regiment, 
but  men  are  kept  busy,  as  when  they  are  sent  to  Roanoke 
Island  to  cut  wood,  patrolling  various  parts  of  the  great  sand 
bar,  keeping  guard  at  the  lighthouse  and  at  other  points  of 
the  Hatteras  sand  waste.  Among  these  Wroburn  men  is  one 
of  artistic  abilities  as  well  as  poetic,  as  is  evident  in  his  diary 
entrances,  when  on  the  3d  of  May  he  writes:  "  Splendid 
night,  full  moon  which  lighted  the  whole  beach  and  made  a 
radiant  pathway  across  the  ocean."  Hundreds  of  observers 
see  just  such  sights,  while  only  one  remarks  them.  May  5th 
one  of  the  men  writes:  "  One  intelligent  black  man  rowed 
me  ashore,  his  back  being  well  covered  with  a  coat  formerly 


240        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

worn  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Stebbins  of  Woburn.  He  is  called 
after  his  benefactor  and  wears  the  reverend  garment  with 
becoming  dignity."  May  6th  the  "Dudley  Buck"  arrived 
from  Newbern,  bringing  Colonel  Peirson,  Adjutant  Eustis 
and  Captain  Crafts,  who  were  received  by  the  company, 
drawn  up  in  line,  which  also  greeted  them  with  three  cheers. 
The  alleged  loyal  North  Carolinians,  whom  the  soldiers 
denominate  "buffaloes,"  do  not  stand  very  high  in  the  minds 
of  the  men  from  Massachusetts.  Seemingly  they  are  more 
observant  of  calls  for  rations  than  for  work  of  any  kind.  The 
Colonel,  Adjutant  and  Captain  Crafts  went  away  on  the  llth. 
Sea-bathing  is  not  the  least  of  the  pleasures  afforded  at  Hatter- 
as,  and  firing  the  great  guns  is  excellent  practice,  some  very 
good  work  being  done  in  this  direction.  May  19th  Captain 
Grammer  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  post  on  the 
departure  of  Captain  Ashcroft  (Third  New  York  Cavalry). 
In  the  way  of  visitors,  the  most  notable,  during  the  month, 
came  on  the  23d  in  the  persons  of  General  Foster  and  staff, 
accompanied  by  General  E.  E.  Potter,  of  some  note  in  connec 
tion  with  Washington  on  the  Tar;  C.  B.  Wilder,  superintend 
ent  of  contrabands;  Capt.  James  H.  Strong,  etc.  "General  Fos 
ter  was  very  pleasant  and  looked  the  same  as  ever,  white  hat 
and  white  pants."  A  salute  was  fired  in  his  honor  and  he  inspect 
ed  the  guard,  seeming  to  think  that  things  were  better  than 
when  he  visited  before.  There  was  an  exhibition  of  target 
practice,  and  one  shot  the  General  pronounced  a  "lovely"  one. 
Their  stay  was  brief,  the  departure  coming  the  same  day. 


DEEP  GULLY. 

Excepting  the  Hatteras  detail  and  the  companies  in  camp, 
the  early  part  of  June  finds  the  Fifth  on  picket,  and  as  a  rule 
there  is  more  poetry  as  well  as  incident  in  service  away  from 
the  stiff  regimen  of  camp  life  with  its  interminable  routine, 


JUNE  6,  '63.  DEEP  GULLY.  241 

all  of  the  latter  necessary  for  the  best  results,  at  the  same 
time  never  agreeable  to  the  soldier  himself.  In  Newbern 
active  efforts  were  made  to  secure  recruits  for  the  Second 
Heavy,  especially  by  Captain  Newton  of  "  I,"  who  was  to 
accept  a  similar  position  in  the  new  regiment.  The  names 
of  the  nine  men  are  borne  on  the  rolls  as  having  been  dis 
charged,  June  6th,  that  they  might  re-enlist  in  the  Heavy 
Artillery.  Many  more  enlisted  at  a  later  date.  The  Forty- 
fourth  Regiment,  whose  muster-in  preceded  that  of  the 
Fifth  by  a  few  days,  took  cars  for  Morehead  City  on  the  5th 
and  thence  was  carried  by  steamer  to  Massachusetts.  The 
period  of  picket  duty  extended  to  the  10th,  with  no  special 
incident  or  variation.  One  of  those  who  did  not  leave  the 
camp  for  this  tour  of  duty  writes  of  his  going  out  to  visit  his 
fellows,  on  the  very  border  of  Union  limits,  and  finding  them 
very  comfortably  placed  and  enjoying  themselves.  He 
sampled  the  mulberries  there  abounding  and,  by  an  unexpected 
fall  from  a  tree,  learned  that  limbs  of  the  mulberry  tree  are 
exceedingly  brittle. 

The  visitor  also  was  told  of  a  realization,  by  one  of  the  boys, 
that  "  a  miss  is  as  good  as  a  mile,"  for  a  corporal,  as  was  his 
wont  and  duty,  going  down  to  the  edge  of  the  Trent  to  discover 
whether  a  certain  rebel  sharpshooter  was  attending  to  his 
part  of  the  hostilities,  was  suddenly  and  convincingly  informed. 
He  had  glanced  across  the  water  and  had  about-faced  to  return, 
when  a  bullet  from  a  hidden  foeman  took  off  the  visor  of  his 
cap  as  closely  as  possible  without  breaking  the  skin  of  his 
forehead.  While  the  "  miss  "  was  sufficient,  he  was  sure  that 
the  rebel  was  on  deck  and  duty.  Had  he  deferred  his  turning 
the  briefest  instant,  the  shot  would  have  penetrated  his  fore 
head  and  another  would  have  been  added  to  the  death  roll. 
Sunday,  the  7th,  the  major,  surgeon,  adjutant  and  other 
officers  as  well  as  enlisted  men  were  visitors  at  the  picket 
station,  and  the  next  day  was  marked  by  the  presence  of 
16 


242        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Colonel  Peirson,  accompanied  by  officers  and  men.  The  9th 
brought  wagons  to  carry  back  the  heavier  portions  of  the 
baggage,  though  the  men  had  the  privilege  of  another  day 
on  the  borders,  since  the  soldiers  to  relieve  them  were  some 
what  slow  in  their  appearance. 


NEWBERN. 

The  way  back  to  Newbern  was  taken  early  in  the  morning 
of  the  10th,  and  the  pace  was  slow,  so  much  so  that  some  of 
the  men  grew  impatient,  and  going  ahead,  had  a  right  to  claim 
that  it  was  the  regiment  that  straggled.  Former  quarters 
were  reached  about  the  middle  of  the  afternoon.  Thence 
onward  to  the  22d,  whatever  the  nominal  occupation  of  the 
men,  the  principal  thought  was  the  return  home,  which  was 
surely  near  at  hand.  To  be  sure,  there  was  the  regular  round 
of  camp  duty  along  with  that  of  extras,  as  cutting  wood,  work 
ing  in  the  city,  and  warding  off  homesickness,  which  had  begun 
to  attack  the  men,  or  some  of  them,  in  an  almost  virulent 
manner.  Guns  and  equipments  had  to  be  put  in  the  best 
condition  possible,  and  then,  lest  they  might  forget,  there 
was  a  resumption  of  the  drills  that  late  activities  had  super 
seded.  On  the  16th  and  17th  details  were  made  for  labor 
on  the  intrenchments,  so  near  did  the  day  of  departure  follow 
these  reminders  of  former  and  regular  work.  Somehow, 
the  idea  had  been  widespread  that  the  regiment  would  leave 
on  the  18th,  but  that  day  came  and  went  and  Newbern  was 
still  in  sight.  The  steamer  "  Guide,"  which  had  taken  the 
Forty-fourth  home,  had  been  detained  somewhat  by  heavy 
fogs,  and  this  may  have  occasioned  some  delay.  However, 
on  the  21st  came  the  long-expected  and  eagerly-awaited 
Regimental  Order  No.  37,  to  the  effect  that  all  would  be  in 
readiness  to  depart  on  the  morrow. 


JUNE  22,  '63.  GOING  HOME.  243 

GOING    HOME. 

"  Oh,  the  day  it  came  at  last/'  has  been  sung  o'er  and  o'er 
by  thousands  of  voices,  not  alone  by  those  who  waited  the 
breaking  of  prison  bonds,  but  everywhere  the  world  over, 
men  of  all  ages  have  thought  them,  if  they  did  not  chant  them, 
for  "  I'm  going  home  "  is  one  of  the  happiest  combinations 
that  the  language  affords,  and  hundreds  of  men,  on  the  morn 
ing  of  the  22d,  had  them  in  mind  and  on  the  lip  as  they  packed 
their  knapsacks  for  the  last  time,  and  turned  their  backs  on 
scenes  that  had  grown  familiar  through  many  months  of 
off-and-on  occupancy.  The  Third  Regiment  had  gone  home 
on  the  llth,  and  the  remaining  nine  months'  troops  were  to 
follow  on  the  24th.  It  was  well  known  that  great  events  were 
impending  up  in  northern  Virginia  and  Maryland,  and  in 
reporting  at  Fortress  Monroe,  there  was  the  possibility  of 
being  ordered  thither,  as  some  of  those  going  on  the  24th  were. 
But  no  bridge  can  be  crossed  until  reached,  so  these  home 
ward-turning  men  gave  as  little  thought  as  possible  to  what 
might  follow,  and  made  all  preparations  for  a  speedy  sight  of 
Massachusetts.  The  manner  of  the  Fifth's  getting  away 
from  Newbern  is  appreciatively  described  by  Historian  Denny 
of  the  25th: 

June  22d,  the  Fifth  Massachusetts,  Colonel  Peirson,  left 
Newbern,  homeward  bound,  reaching  Boston  harbor  on  the 
26th  of  that  month.  The  regiment  was  brigaded  with  the 
Twenty-fifth  during  its  service,  and  its  camp  was  adjacent  to 
Camp  Oliver,  so  that  a  very  friendly  feeling  existed  between  the 
officers  and  men  of  the  two  battalions.  The  Twenty-fifth 
(also  the  Forty-sixth),  wishing  to  express  appreciation  of  the 
gallant  services  rendered  by  the  Fifth  on  all  occasions,  turned 
out  with  full  ranks,  and  escorted  their  comrades  to  the  wharf, 
and  there  exchanged  parting  salutations.  Colonel  H.  C.  Lee, 
commanding  brigade,  found  an  opportunity  to  make  a  neat 
little  speech  to  the  officers  and  men  of  the  Fifth,  and  among 
other  good  things  said:  "You  may  perhaps  think  you  have 
done  more  than  your  share  of  labor,  having  engaged  in  more 
expeditions,  endured  longer  marches,  and  performed  more 


244        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

arduous  service  than  any  other  nine  months'  regiment,  or  even 
the  three  years'  troops,  in  the  same  period  of  time.  But  you 
should  remember  the  Scripture  passage,  that  Svhom  the 
Lord  loveth  he  chasteneth/  and  accept  the  toils  and  hard 
ships  you  have  borne  as  a  proof  of  the  good  opinion  of  your 
commanding  General,  who  calls  most  frequently  into  service 
those  regiments  in  which  he  has  the  most  confidence." 

This  most  delightful  "  send-off  "  took  place  in  one  of  the 
open  places  of  the  city,  where  the  regiment  was  drawn  up  in 
a  hollow  square,  and  thence  it  marched  to  the  wharf  where 
Companies  D,  I  and  K,  under  command  of  Lieut.-col.  Boyd, 
went  on  board  the  "  Convoy  "  with  instructions  to  stop  at 
Hatteras,  there  to  take  on  board  Company  G,  so  long  sta 
tioned  on  that  barren  waste.  The  remaining  companies,  A, 
B,  C,  E,  F  and  H,  proceeded  by  railroad  to  Morehead  City, 
and  at  10  a.m.  boarded  the  steamer  "  Guide/'  so  frequently 
mentioned  in  all  affairs  pertaining  to  North  Carolina  in  war 
times,  the  steamer  starting  soon  afterwards.  As  the  "  Con 
voy  "  is  to  pick  up  Company  G,  it  will  be  well  to  anticipate 
that  call  and  find  out  how  June  has  been  passing  on  the  bar. 
General  Prince  visited  the  post  June  7th  and  inspected  both 
forts  and  the  barracks.  He  is  described  as  a  "  short,  stout 
man  with  a  black  beard."  Flies  annoy  the  boys  by  day  and 
fleas  make  weary  the  night.  "General  Wild*  arrived  this 
morning  (June  14th)  for  the  purpose  of  enlisting  contrabands. 
He  is  a  tall,  slim  man  with  a  reddish  beard.  He  has  lost  his 
left  arm  and  the  empty  sleeve  dangles  at  his  side.  The 
darkeys  are  very  ready  to  become  soldiers  and  they  have 
been  enlisting  all  day."  The  General  succeeded  in  getting 
about  150  men  from  the  colored  people  on  the  bar,  leaving  only 

*  General  E.  A.  Wild  was  a  Brookline  (Mass.)  man,  who  as  a  physician 
had  seen  service  in  the  Crimean  War;  had  been  a  captain  in  the  First 
Massachusetts  Infantry  ;  had  assisted  in  the  organization  of  Massachusetts 
troops,  and  as  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-fifth  had  lost  his  left  arm  at  South 
Mountain;  commissioned  Brigadier  General  April  24,  '63,  was  exceed 
ingly  prominent  in  all  phases  of  the  negro  service  until  the  end  of  the  war. 
He  died  at  Medellin,  U.  S.  of  Colombia,  Aug.  28,  1891. 


JUNE  21,  '63.  GOING  HOME.  245 

the  old  and  decrepit.  To  the  men  cooped  up  on  this  sand 
desert,  time  seemed  even  longer  than  it  did  to  their  comrades 
at  Newbern.  They  had  heard  that  they  were  to  be  carried 
home  in  the  "  Convoy,"  and  that  vessel's  name  was  on  every 
lip,  seemingly,  during  all  the  waking  hours.  She  would 
surely  come  the  next  day  and  then  the  next.  Frequent  bets 
were  made  as  to  her  arrival.  Where  there  was  no  imperative 
duty,  men  spent  the  most  of  their  time  trying  to  be  the  first 
to  announce  the  coming  of  the  transport.  Towards  the  end 
of  the  stay,  Captain  Grammer  went  to  Newbern,  and  on  his 
return,  the  21st,  he  announced  that  "  tomorrow  the  'Convoy' 
will  surely  arrive."  The  men  seemed  beside  themselves  with 
joy,  "  laughing,  shouting,  and  acting  like  men  possessed." 
At  last  the  steamer  appeared  and  at  5  p.m.,  honored  by  a 
salute  of  four  guns  from  the  fort,  Company  G  went  on  board 
the  "  Convoy  "  and  was  off  for  home.  Passing  through 
the  inlet  heavy  waves  were  encountered,  the  same  prevailing 
until  past  the  Cape;  so  near  to  the  same  did  the  vessel  go,  the 
men  could  distinguish  the  quarters  occupied  in  the  preceding 
March.  "  After  getting  around  the  Cape,  the  water  was  much 
smoother  and  the  rising  moon  made  the  night  delightful." 
Though  of  different  rates  of  speed,  the  two  transports  were 
supposed  to  be  companions  on  the  homeward  trip.  The  "  Con 
voy  "  first  reported  at  Fortress  Monroe  and  Lieut. -col.  Boyd 
went  ashore  to  state  the  situation.  Some  one  narrates  that 
General  John  A.  Dix,  the  commandant,  must  have  been  in 
an  ill  temper,  for  when  the  officer  asked  the  General's  orders 
for  the  left  wing  of  the  Fifth,  the  latter  replied  that  he  had  no 
use  for  half  regiments.  Taking  this  as  his  orders  to  proceed 
northward,  the  Colonel  saluted  and  retired.  Anchor  was 
weighed  and  the  "  Convoy  "  started  out  to  sea  again,  meet 
ing  on  the  way  out  the  "  Guide  "  and  the  officers  were  told 
to  turn  about  and  steam  for  Boston.  (One  of  the  "  Guide's  " 
companies  states  that  the  vessel  reported  at  Fortress  Monroe, 
just  the  same,  and  was  ordered  to  Massachusetts.)  During 


246        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

the  24th,  while  moving  through  an  open  sea,  that  old  acquaint 
ance  of  the  Neuse  and  Newbern,  the  steamer  "  Escort,"  was 
met  on  her  way  southward.  It  was  a  pleasant  though  a  final 
meeting.  Towards  night  the  "  Convoy  "  held  up  to  enable 
the  "  Guide  "  to  approach,  she  having  been  far  astern  all  day. 
The  25th  reveals  the  coast  of  Massachusetts,  with  the  "  Guide" 
leading,  since  her  captain  is  familiar  with  the  points  along  the 
shore,  and  all  observers  proclaim  the  view  a  great  improve 
ment  on  that  of  the  old  North  State.  It  was  late  afternoon  as 
the  vessels  neared  Boston.  In  passing  Fort  Warren  the  fort 
fired  a  salute  and  the  garrison  band  played  "  Home,  Sweet 
Home,"  and  never  did  the  melody  fall  on  more  appreciative 
ears.  Anchor  was  dropped  near  the  foot  of  Battery  Wharf 
and  the  night  was  passed  on  ship-board,  not  without  many 
visitors  in  boats  coming  out  to  speak  the  word  of  welcome. 

It  was  8  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  26th  when  the 
landing  was  made,  and  the  soldiers  again  set  foot 
upon  the  territory  of  their,  for  the  most  part, 
native  State,  and  they  would  gladly  have  started 
for  their  respective  homes  by  the  shortest  route,  but 
a  reception  was  awaiting  them.  Three  companies,  A,  D, 
and  H,  were  from  Charlestown,  and  that  city  wished  to 
receive  her  sons  and  their  comrades  in  fitting  manner.  Let 
ters  had  been  written  to  Colonel  Peirson  some  weeks  before 
intimating  the  purpose  of  the  citizens,  and  the  subject  was 
submitted  to  the  other  officers  and  by  them  to  the  men. 
While  gratitude  wras  expressed  for  the  kindness  of  the  inten 
tions,  the  men  expressed  a  wish  to  get  home  as  early  as  pos 
sible,  instead  of  halting  for  a  parade.  Unluckily,  this  deci 
sion  did  not  reach  Charlestown,  and  when  a  committee  came 
aboard  to  arrange  details  and  to  announce  the  preparations 
already  made,  it  seemed  ungrateful  to  decline  such  hospital 
ity,  so,  with  a  few  exceptions,  all  agreed  to  march  and  be 
entertained.  There  was  a  wait  of  two  hours  on  the  wharf 
before  starting;  the  day  was  extremely  hot  and  knapsacks 


JUNE  26,  '63.  GOING  HOME.  247 

with  equipage  were  exceedingly  heavy,  since  many  of  the 
soldiers  had  stocked  up  with  relics  for  the  pleasure  of  the 
folks  at  home. 

Finally  the  start  was  made,  the  regiment  marching  up 
State  Street  by  platoons,  amid  the  cheers  of  an  immense  throng 
of  people,  and  thence  through  Court,  Sudbury  and  Haver- 
hill  Streets,  over  the  river  to  Charlestown.  The  escort  was 
long  and  imposing,  including  the  National  Lancers,  Captain 
Slade,  with  Standish's  Band;  City  Government  of  Charles- 
town  in  carriages;  National  Guard,  Captain  Stevens,  with 
Boston  Brigade  Band;  Charlestown  Reserve,  Captain  Norton; 
Fire  Department  of  Charlestown,  with  Hall's,  Gilmore's  and 
the  Germania  Bands;  with  civic  societies,  Hamilton  Institute, 
St.  Mary's  Relief,  Father  Mathew  Total  Abstinence  and  St. 
Francis  de  Sales  Association;  cavalcade  of  150  horsemen; 
Somerville  Light  Infantry,  Captain  Brastow;  Somerville  Hook 
and  Ladder  Co.,  with  Chelsea  Band;  cavalcade  of  seventy- 
five  horsemen,  all  under  the  direction  of  Chief  Marshal 
Haynes.  While  crossing  Warren  Bridge  a  salute  was  fired 
by  guns  on  the  Charlestown  wharves.  It  had  been  under 
stood  that  the  parade  should  be  a  brief  one,  but  the  chance 
to  show  a  regiment  just  home  from  the  front  did  not  come 
every  day,  hence  the  route  was  unduly  prolonged,  much  to 
the  disgust  of  both  officers  and  men.  At  least  one  captain, 
Grammer  of  G,  refused  to  march  farther,  and  with  his  men 
fell  out  of  line  just  before  the  collation  was  served  in  Win- 
throp  Square,  almost  under  the  shadow  of  the  Monument. 
At  the  tables,  set  for  1400  people,  prayer  was  offered  by  the 
Rev.  James  B.  Miles,  and  congratulatory  remarks  were 
addressed  to  Colonel  Peirson  and  his  command  by  Mayor 
Phineas  J.  Stone,  extending  the  hospitalities  of  the  city,  to 
all  of  which  the  Colonel  responded  briefly  yet  heartily.  The 
buildings  were  profusely  decorated  with  flags,  bunting  and 
mottoes.  Windows  and  balconies  were  filled  with  ladies,  who 
showered  bouquets  of  flowers  upon  the  soldiers.  It  would 
seem  that  not  all  of  the  companies  remained  to  the  feast,  for 


248        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

it  is  recorded  that  "  E  "  also  fell  out  dinnerless.  The  Woburn 
company  found  a  special  train  to  carry  it  home,  and  on  arrival 
in  town  there  was  a  march  over  Academy  Hill  to  the  Common, 
where  remarks  were  made  by  Mr.  Cummings,  Rev.  Dr.  Steb- 
bins,  C.  C.  Woodman  and  Capt.  Grammer;  then  the  company 
repaired  to  Lyceum  Hall,  where  a  bountiful  spread  awaited 
the  men,  though  not  all  remained  to  partake,  preferring  to 
hasten  at  once  to  that  dearest  of  all  spots  in  the  world- 
Home.  A  similar  reception  was  accorded  Company  I  in  Marl 
boro  on  Saturday,  and  the  crowds  cheered  to  the  echo  the 
exhibition  of  drill  afforded  by  the  soldiers.  Somerville  greeted 
her  company  with  equal  fervor,  and  Medford  was  not  a  whit 
behind  in  doing  honor  to  her  Company  E,  the  same  being 
escorted  to  the  town  line  from  Charlestown,  where  it  was  met 
by  the  officials  and  a  large  part  of  the  people  of  Medford,  and 
with  them  was  marched  to  the  Town  Hall,  where,  after  an  elo 
quent  welcome  from  General  S.  C.  Lawrence,  colonel  during 
the  regiment's  first  term,  and  a  reply  by  Captain  Currier,  all 
partook  of  an  elaborate  collation  prepared  by  the  ladies.  All 
were  permitted  to  go  home  and  remain  there  until  the  follow 
ing  Wednesday,  July  2d,  when  they  gathered  at  their  old 
camping  place,  Lake  Wenham,  for  muster-out. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that,  as  the  ceremony  of  leaving 
the  service  was  in  progress  on  the  peaceful  shores  of  the  lake, 
one  of  the  world's  greatest  battles — Gettysburg — was  in  its 
second  terrible  day,  and  the  high  tide  of  rebellion  was  yet  to 
break  on  the  slope  of  Cemetery  Ridge,  while  at  Vicksburg 
and  Port  Hudson  were  impending  surrenders  which  should 
permit  the  waters  of  the  Mississippi  to  flow  unvexed  to  the 
sea.  But  of  all  this  these  men,  after  their  campaign  of  nearly 
a  year,  are  as  yet  blissfully  ignorant.  They  have  served  their 
country  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  their  enlistments, 
and  now,  having  turned  over  to  the  proper  authorities  their 
guns,  knapsacks,  haversacks,  in  a  word  all  with  which  the 
Government  had  equipped  them,  they  were  ready  to  be 
resolved  once  more  into  the  great  mass  of  the  people  whence 


THE  REGIMENTAL  BAND.  249 

some  months  before  they  had  emerged.  Their  discharge 
papers  bore  the  name  of  Robert  B.  McKibbin,  first  lieuten 
ant,  Fourth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.  While  enlisting  for  nine  months 
the  service  of  the  men,  in  most  cases,  exceeded  ten  months,  so 
there  could  be  no  charge  of  failure  to  render  full  time,  and  with 
a  consciousness  of  having  done  their  entire  duty,  of  having 
fought  a  good  fight,  of  having  kept  the  faith,  the  members  of 
the  Fifth  Regiment,  M.  V.  M.,  in  its  second  tour  of  duty, 
hastened  away  from  the  camp  to  their  respective  homes,  there 
to  take  up  the  vocational  threads  raveled  by  their  temporary 
employment  in  the  episode  of  war. 


THE  REGIMENTAL  BAND. 

By  HENRY  GRANT  WEHTOX,  "  One  of  'Em." 

While  encamped  at  Wenham,  I  was  discovered  in  the  ranks 
of  Company  G  by  Benj.  Wyman  of  Company  E  and  invited 
to  take  my  instrument  to  Newbern,  as  a  band  was  to  be 
onganized  on  arriving  there.  As  at  first  organized,  it  included 
Henry  K.  Holder  (C),  leader,  and  Webster  Brooks  (E),  Geo. 
A.  McCurdy  (E),  John  K.  Meader  (H),  Ezra  Morse  (E), 
Josiah  W.  Parker  (C),  Augustus  Perkins  (E),  Charles  H. 
Prentiss  (F),  Samuel  Rinn  (G),  Joseph  Sinclair  (B),  Henry 
G.  Weston  (G),  Francis  E.  Whitcomb  (B),  Lucius  L.  Woolley 
(F),  James  G.  Wormwood  (K),  Benj.  F.  W^ynian  (E). 

Under  the  leadership  of  Comrade  Holder,  we  made  fair 
progress,  although  our  stock  of  music  was  very  limited. 
Rehearsals  were  continuous  for  several  weeks,  and  how  proud 
all  of  us  were  when  the  officers  decided  that  we  played  well 
enough  to  appear  at  guard-mount  and  dress-parade.  What 
member  of  the  band  does  not  remember  the  "  flag  raising," 
after  the  ninety-foot  pole  had  been  erected  near  the  Colonel's 
quarters.  The  regiment  had  been  assembled  and  "  Old  Glory  " 


250 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


run  to  the  peak,  ready  to  be  broken  forth  when  the  band 
should  have  played  "  The  Star  Spangled  Banner."  The 
leader  was  of  a  nervous  temperament,  sometimes  lost  his  head, 
and  when  the  command  was  given,  and  the  flag  was  flung  to 
the  breeze,  the  band  played  "  Hail  Columbia,"  much  to  the 
disgust  of  our  worthy  Adjutant,  who  was  master  of  ceremonies. 
For  a  few  moments,  there  was  a  distinct  halo  of  bright  blue 


JOE    SINCLAIR  S    DOG. 


around  Eustis's  head.  Who  does  not  recall  Joe  Sinclair's 
dog  that  acted  as  drum  major,  and  no  human  could  have 
filled  the  position  with  greater  dignity. 

During  the  winter,  the  officers  secured  as  bandmaster  Mr. 
Joseph  W.  Kennedy,  who  had  been  at  the  head  of  the  Brigade 
Band  of  Boston,  as  well  as  leader  of  the  band  of  the  Twelfth 


THE  REGIMENTAL  BAND.  251 

Massachusetts.  Coming  to  us  with  a  generous  supply  of  new 
music,  we  improved  rapidly  under  his  instructions,  and  the 
"  McClellan  Quick  Step  "  soon  became  our  masterpiece.  We 
were  delighted  when  told  that  we  were  to  serenade  General 
Foster,  and  I,  for  one,  can  never  forget  that  night.  We  arrived 
at  his  headquarters  about  9  o'clock,  lighted  our  lanterns 
and  proceeded  with  the  concert.  After  a  time  we  were  invited 
into  the  dining-room  for  refreshments.  On  entering  the  room, 
we  found  the  table  laden  with  crackers,  cheese  and  sardines; 
in  the  centre  of  the  table  was  a  ten-quart  pail,  filled  with  a 
liquid,  steaming  hot  and  provided  with  plenty  of  tin  dippers. 
I  was  from  the  country,  a  hayseed  of  the  first  magnitude, 
had  never  heard  of  "  hot  whiskey  punch."  Seeing  the  lemons 
in  the  liquid,  I  asked  what  it  was.  Joe  Parker  said,  "  Hot 
lemonade!  Have  some,  Henry!"  So  filling  a  pint  dipper,  I 
soon  disposed  of  it,  and  then  helped  myself  to  a  genteel 
sufficiency  of  the  edibles.  By  the  time  the  repast  was  finished 
I  was  becoming  quite  " voluminous."  Before  leaving  the  room, 
I  was  induced  to  take  a  second  drink,  being  told  it  would  do 
me  good,  since  the  night  was  cold  and  chilly. 

Before  leaving  headquarters,  I  forgot  my  instrument,  in 
place  of  which  I  had  a  lighted  lantern  in  each  hand.  Passing 
through  Pollock  Street,  I  had  never  seen  the  elm  trees  so  thick. 
They  seemed  like  soldiers  on  parade.  About  that  time,  I  was 
too  numerous  to  mention.  I  could  have  met,  without  a 
quaver,  the  whole  rebel  army  that  night,  thus  ending  the  war 
there  and  then.  What  a  narrow  escape  it  was;  there  would 
have  been  no  Pickett's  charge  at  Gettysburg;  no  Grant  at 
Appomattox!  But  I  saw  no  rebels  that  night.  I  did  not  even 
see  my  captain,  who  was  officer  of  the  day,  as  I  passed  in  at 
the  guard  tent,  going  directly  to  my  quarters. 

The  following  morning,  one  member  of  the  band  was  absent 
at  guard-mount.  During  the  forenoon,  I  became  conscious 
that  some  one  was  trying  to  waken  me.  Opening  my  eyes 
as  best  I  could,  I  beheld  my  captain,  who  said  he  thought  I 


252        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

must  have  had  quite  a  time  last  night.  I  replied  that  I  was 
not  quite  sure  what  I  did  have.  I  had  heard  of  a  man's 
having  a  swelled  head,  and  for  once  I  was  it.  I  was  excused 
from  duty  until  my  head  had  reached  its  usual  size,  and  I  may 
add  that,  from  that  day  to  this  (1910),  I  have  had  no  dealings 
with  "  hot  lemonade." 

Everybody  remembers  the  trip  home,  especially  the  concert 
given  as  we  sailed  into  Boston  harbor.  All  went  well  until 
we  played  "  Home,  Sweet  Home,"  when  the  big  dog  of 
Company  F  joined  in  the  chorus.  The  tones  he  uttered  were 
not  heavenly,  yet  were  they  unearthly.  It  was  a  self-evident 
fact  that  the  dog  preferred  to  remain  at  the  seat  of  war.  What 
a  reception  we  received  when  we  landed.  We  did  our  very 
best  that  day,  and  many  were  the  compliments*  we  received 
from  Boston  musicians  who  listened  to  us.  Bandmaster 
Kennedy  remarked  many  times  in  later  years  that  that  day 
was  one  long  to  be  remembered.  This  I  can  say  after  an 
experience  of  forty-two  years  in  the  best  bands  and  orchestras 
in  this  country,  that  the  members  of  the  regiment  have  every 
reason  to  be  satisfied  with  the  music  furnished  by  the  little 
band  of  sixteen  men. 


Subsequent  to  his  service  in  the  band  of  the  Fifth,  Weston 
held  a  like  position  in  the  band  of  the  Second  Brigade,  First 
Division,  Second  Army  Corps,  and  was  finally  transferred  to 
the  Sixteenth  Company,  Second  Battalion,  V.  R.  C.,  and  wras 
stationed  at  Lincoln  General  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C., 
to  the  close  of  the  war. 

By  way  of  explanation,  it  should  be  added  that  an  order 
of  the  War  Department,  late  in  the  summer  of  1862,  had 
decreed  the  discharge  of  all  regimental  bands,  and  that  was 
how  Leader  Kennedy  became  available  for  the  enlisted  band 
of  the  Fifth.  His  salary  and  expenses  were  borne  by  a  tax 
levied  on  the  officers,  and  whatever  other  expense  the  band 
incurred  was  met  in  the  same  manner.  The  men  belonging 


JULY  14,  '63.  DRAFT  RIOT.  253 

to  the  band  and  to  the  regiment  at  the  same  time,  discharged 
their  respective  duties  in  their  companies  as  well  as  those  of 
band  membership. 

Joe  Sinclair  called  his  dog  Fido,  but  the  "  boys  "  all  called 
him  "  Major  "  because  of  the  graceful  manner  in  which  he 
discharged  the  duties  of  Drum  Major.  Of  imported  Scotch- 
terrier  stock,  he  came  into  Sinclair's  possession  two  weeks 
before  the  latter  enlisted.  Dog  and  master  went  to  Prospect 
Hill  and  they  were  there  two  weeks;  and  on  the  march  to  Bos 
ton,  on  the  way  to  Camp  Wenham,  Fido  was  lost,  but  he  found 
his  way  back  to  his  Cambridge  home  before  midnight,  the  most 
tired  canine  in  the  city.  When  Sinclair  went  back  to  Wenham 
from  a  brief  furlough  home,  Fido  went  with  him  and  accom 
panied  him  and  the  regiment  to  North  Carolina.  He  was  a 
good  forager,  and  many  were  the  chickens  that  he  caught 
and  brought  to  his  hungry  master.  He  knew  his  place  ahead 
of  the  band,  countermarched,  and  always  kept  his  distance. 
Fond  of  the  water  and  a  good  swimmer,  he  gave  the  boys  no 
end  of  fun.  When  the  vessel  bringing  the  regiment  home 
reached  the  harbor,  Mrs.  Sinclair  went  out  in  a  boat  to  greet 
her  husband,  and  he  unchaining  the  dog,  till  then  attached  to 
his  friend,  placed  the  animal  at  the  rail,  whence,  seeing  his 
mistress,  he  leaped  into  the  water  and  swam  to  the  side  of  the 
small  boat,  was  taken  in  and  no  persuasion  could  coax  him 
back.  He  survived  his  return  from  the  front  seventeen  years. 

DRAFT  RIOT. 

The  Fifth  Regiment  had  hardly  more  than  reached  home 
when  necessity  brought  on  the  infliction  which  the  enlistments 
of  the  midsummer  of  1862  had  averted,  viz.,  the  draft.  The 
"  may  "  of  the  former  year  had  now  become  "  must,  "  and 
the  volunteers  reached  Massachusetts  to  find  widespread 
discontent  regarding  compulsory  service  in  the  army.  Men 
had  been  drafted,  and  those  who  did  not  respond  otherwise, 
had  to  be  personally  notified.  It  was  in  the  afternoon  of 


254        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

July  14th  that  two  assistant  provost-marshals  were  serving 
notices  on  men  who  had  been  drafted,  and  who  lived  in  rather 
disreputable  quarters  at  the  north  end  of  Boston,  when  they 
were  suddenly  assaulted  by  a  woman  whose  husband  was 
among  the  conscripts.  The  cries  of  this  infuriated  woman, 
as  if  by  a  preconcerted  signal,  drew  an  immense  throng, 
principally  of  women,  so  large  that  it  completely  choked  the 
narrow  streets  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Boston  Gas  Light  Com 
pany's  works.  The  officers  fled  for  their  lives  and  the  local 
patrolmen  who  came  to  their  rescue  were  beaten  almost  to 
death.  At  this  very  time  the  terrible  Draft  Riot  of  New 
York  city  was  in  progress,  whereby  troops  were  ordered  up 
from  the  very  seat  of  war.  Fortunately  Boston  was  able 
to  dispose  of  her  own  troubles,  and  the  returned  militia  with 
the  local  police  were  sufficient  for  the  emergency. 

The  whole  north  end  of  the  city  w^as  in  a  state  of  revolt. 
Men  had  taken  the  places  of  women  in  the  mob,  and  there 
were  indications  of  organization  among  these  people  with 
special  reference  to  the  resistance  of  conscription,  the  outbreak 
by  the  women  being  uxexpected  and  precipitous.  The  call  of 
the  Governor  for  the  assembling  of  the  militia  was  on  the  14th, 
and  the  response  was  immediate,  and  great  credit  attaches 
to  the  nine  months'  regiments  because  of  their  readiness  to 
serve  in  this  trying  moment.  Of  the  Fifth,  Companies  A,  B, 
D,  F  and  H  were  represented  more  or  less.  There  was  a 
single  company  of  the  Sixth;  the  Forty-fourth  and  the  Forty- 
fifth  are  included  as  regiments  and  all  did  willingly  whatever 
duty  was  assigned  them.  But  the  brunt  of  the  work  came 
on  the  Eleventh  Battery,  Capt.  E.  J.  Jones,  which  from  its 
Cooper  Street  Armory,  in  the  evening  of  the  15th,  fired  a 
single  charge  of  canister  into  the  mob  that  beset  its  quarters, 
threatening  their  destruction.  That  one  shot  was  enough, 
though  the  extent  of  carnage  wrought  thereby  will  never  be 
known.  There  were  no  burial  returns  and  the  lawless  masses, 
convinced  that  a  hand  of  iron  was  wielding  the  long  unsheathed 
sword,  borne  on  the  escutcheon  of  the  Commonwealth,  melted 


THE  NEWBERN  MONUMENT.  255 

away.  While  the  volunteers  continued  their  tour  of  duty 
some  days,  there  was  no  further  overt  act  against  the  peace 
and  order  of  the  city. 

The  particular  duty  assigned  to  those  of  the  Fifth  who 
responded  to  the  call  was  performed  in  Watertown,  where 
they  kept  special  vigils  over  all  roads  leading  to  the  arsenal, 
work  that  was  more  responsible  than  might  at  first  appear, 
since  the  arms  stored  there  would  be  the  immediate  quest  of 
a  mob,  should  one  be  aroused.  At  least  one  member  of  the 
regiment,  Mitchell  of  (B),  Somerville,  performed  his  task  by 
proxy,  for,  sick  in  bed  at  the  time,  his  brother  donned  the 
uniform,  carried  George  E.'s  gun  and  walked  the  beat,  just 
as  though  he  were  a  veteran. 

Adjutant  General  Schouler,  in  his  General  Order  No.  20, 
dated  August  3d,  1863,  by  the  direction  of  the  Governor, 
extended  the  thanks  of  the  Commonwealth  to  the  several 
organizations  (enumerating  them)  for  their  discharge  of  the 
"  delicate  and  arduous  duties  assigned  them."  Though  the 
service  was  not  fraught  with  serious  labors,  long  marches 
nor  heavy  fighting,  yet  the  citizen  soldiery  once  more  proved 
the  value  of  its  existence,  and  through  them  Massachusetts 
was  again  put  and  kept  in  the  ranks  of  the  well  disposed. 

THE  NEWBERN  MONUMENT. 

In  keeping  with  the  custom  begun  at  Gettysburg  of  erect 
ing  monuments  to  the  memory  of  Massachusetts  dead  in  the 
national  cemeteries,  the  Legislature  of  1907  passed  a  re 
solve  providing  for  such  a  memorial  in  Newbern.  This  re 
solve  was  approved  by  the  Governor  March  22d  of  that  year. 
The  sum  thus  appropriated  was  $5000,  to  which  was  added 
a  further  sum  of  $4000  by  a  resolve,  approved  March  23d, 
1908.  The  plan  to  thus  honor  Massachusetts  dead  in  North 
Carolina  had  its  inception  in  the  mind  of  Jos.  E.  Shaw,  chief 
of  the  District  Police  of  the  Commonwealth.  A  veteran  of  the 
Seventeenth  Volunteer  Infantry,  who  had  served  in  this  de- 


256         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


NEWBERN  MONUMENT. 


THE  NEWBERN  MONUMENT.  257 

partment,  when  visiting  North  Carolina  in  the  early  fall  of 
1906  he  went  through  the  home  of  the  Union  dead  in  Newbern. 
Here  the  thought  took  shape  in  his  mind  and  on  his  return 
to  the  Bay  State  he  took  up  the  matter  in  earnest. 

Among  those  to  whom  he  introduced  the  subject  were  Gen 
eral  Jones  Frankle,  late  Colonel  of  the  Second  Heavy  Artil 
lery,  and  Major  Charles  B.  Amory  of  the  Twenty-fourth  In 
fantry,  a  brother  of  General  T.  J.  C.  Amory  who  had  died  in 
Newbern  during  the  war.  The  project  met  immediate  favor, 
resulting  as  already  stated.  Comrade  Shaw,  the  originator  of 
the  plan,  died  the  April  after  the  passage  of  the  resolve,  hence 
his  name  does  not  appear  among  those  to  wrhom  was  committed 
the  execution  of  the  legislation.  A  design  for  the  monument, 
submitted  by  Comrade  Melzar  H.  Mosman  of  Chicopee,  and 
a  veteran  of  the  Forty-sixth  Massachusetts  Infantry,  was  ac 
cepted  by  the  Commission  appointed  by  the  Governor.  The 
monument  as  completed  has  a  base  seven  feet  square,  a  second 
base  five  feet  square  and  a  die  three  feet  six  inches  square ;  the 
whole,  six  feet  high,  made  of  hammered  granite.  The  base  and 
die  are  suitably  inscribed;  the  bronze  tablet  bears  the  words, 
11  The  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  Erects  this  Monu 
ment  in  Grateful  Memory  of  her  Soldiers  and  Sailors  who  Died 
in  the  Department  of  North  Carolina,  1861-1865." 

Above  the  die  is  a  bronze  female  figure  clad  in  classic  cos 
tume,  her  head  crowned  with  a  wreath  of  laurel,  representing 
Peace.  Her  left  arm  rests  on  a  pedestal  and  supports  a  shield 
on  which  is  inscribed,  "  After  Loyal  Conflict,  Union  and 
Peace."  The  total  height  of  the  monument  is  thirteen  feet. 
The  formal  dedication  of  the  same  came  on  the  llth  of  No 
vember,  1908,  for  which  purpose  a  large  delegation  had  gone 
down  from  Massachusetts.  Each  one  of  the  seven  regiments 
that  served  in  the  department  had  two  official  representa 
tives,  appointed  by  the  Governor,  those  from  the  Fifth  being 
Lieutenant  Edwin  F.  Wyer  (E)  and  Private  George  E.  Mitch 
ell  (B),  besides  Dr.  Horace  E.  Marion  (G),  Horace  W.  and 
Ward  M.  Otis,  both  of  K,  George  E.  Marsh  (C),  George  W. 
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258        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Nason  (I  of  the  three  months'  service)  and  Henry  G.  Weston 
(G),   who  carried  the  colors  for  the  official  party. 

Owing  to  illness,  Governor  Curtis  Guild,  Jr.,  was  unable  to 
accompany  the  party,  his  place  being  taken  by  President 
William  D.  Chappie  of  the  Senate.  In  addition  to  those  named 
above,  there  was  a  very  large  representation  from  Massa 
chusetts  of  both  sexes,  who  improved  the  opportunity  to 
visit  scenes  so  long  noted  in  history,  and  so  far  did  the  city  of 
Newbern  enter  into  the  spirit  of  the  day  that  all  business  was 
suspended  and  there  was  a  general  outpouring  of  city  and 
country  to  witness  the  ceremonies,  which  were  very  impressive. 
In  the  ranks  which  were  formed  to  proceed  to  the  cemetery, 
there  marched  a  number  of  men  who  had  fought  under  the 
Stars  and  Bars,  yet  were  ready  now  to  salute  the  Flag  of  the 
Free  as  heartily  as  those  who  had  never  done  otherwise.  School 
children  surrounded  the  monument,  and  hard  by  was  a  com 
pany  of  North  Carolina  National  Guard,  clad  in  khaki  uni 
forms.  Among  the  songs  sung  by  the  children  were  "  The 
Star  Spangled  Banner "  and  "  The  Blue  and  the  Gray." 
General  Frankle  as  chairman  of  the  general  committee  called 
the  assembly  to  order  and  introduced  Chaplain  Edward  H. 
Hall,  D.D.  (Forty-fourth),  who  offered  prayer;  then  Sculptor 
Mosman  arose  and  formally  turned  over  to  Chairman  Frankle 
the  product  of  his  genius  and  skill.  At  this  moment  the 
strings  confining  the  flags  enclosing  the  monument  were 
loosed  by  Miss  Alice  Alden  Sprague,  daughter  of  General  A.  B. 
R.  Sprague  (Fifty-first  and  Second  Heavy  Artillery),  assisted 
by  Mrs.  Laura  A.  Dugan,  daughter  of  General  T.  J.  C.  Amory 
(Seventeenth),  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Hartsfield,  the  daughter  of  a 
Confederate  veteran,  and  the  flags  falling  away  revealed  the 
memorial  in  all  its  beauty.  A  letter  from  Governor  Guild  was 
read  by  General  Frankle,  after  which  President  Chappie  of  the 
State  Senate  spoke  in  place  of  the  Governor.  Sergeant  Reeves, 
the  officer  in  charge  of  the  cemetery,  accepted  the  monument 
thus  intrusted  to  his  care  and  keeping.  The  orator  of  the  day 
was  Judge  A.  A,  Putnam,  a  lieutenant  in  war-time  of  the  Sec- 


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ond  Heavy  Artillery,  and  his  address  was  replete  with  the  elo 
quence  for  which  he  was  noted.  It  is  worthy  of  notice  that 
Mrs.  Dugan,  who  assisted  in  the  unveiling,  was  born  in  New- 
bern  and  was  a  babe  in  arms  when  her  parents  died  of  small 
pox.  At  first  she  was  in  charge  of  Colonel  Frankle,  until  she 
could  be  sent  north  to  her  Boston  grandparents,  with  whom 
she  abode  until,  formally  adopted  by  her  uncle,  Major  Chas. 
B.  Amory  of  the  Twenty-fourth,  she  became  a  resident  of  New 
Orleans,  where  she  eventually  married.  Nothing  could  have 
been  more  cordial  than  the  reception  accorded  the  northern 
people  who  visited  Newbern  on  their  commemorative  errand. 
There  were  receptions  of  the  most  enthusiastic  character,  in 
which  Confederates  and  Federals  joined  most  heartily,  and 
as  a  token  of  the  appreciation  of  the  northern  visitors,  they 
sent  back  from  Boston  to  the  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy 
in  Newbern,  a  magnificent  punch-bowl,  with  the  hope  and  ex 
pectation  that  the  same  would  still  further  contribute  to  the 
good  fellowship  established  by  the  events  attending  the  dedi 
cation  of  the  Union  monument. 

OLD  SCENES  REVISITED. 

BY  GEORGE  E.  MITCHELL,  Co.  B. 

Our  first  business  on  reaching  Goldsboro  was  to  secure  trans 
portation  to  the  battle-field.  The  gentlemanly  livery-stable 
keeper  and  the  curious  ones  who  gathered  round,  taking  in  the 
situation  and  knowing  us  to  be  "  Yanks,"  proved  to  be  old 
Confederate  soldiers  who  had  sturdily  resisted  our  coming  in 


*To  revisit  an  old  battle-field  is,  as  a  rule,  one  of  the  greatest  pleasures 
possible  to  the  veteran.  The  writer  of  this  interesting  sketch,  together 
with  comrades  of  the  same  company,  viz.,  Charles  E.  Davis,  James  H. 
Dillaway,  Henry  E.  Gilson  and  George  W.  Maynard,  left  Boston,  February 
15th,  1889,  for  a  trip  to  the  North  Carolina  territory,  connected  with  the 
nine  months'  service  of  the  Fifth,  M.  V.  M.  Their  route  was  via  Stonington 
and  the  Sound  to  New  York,  thence  by  rail  to  Baltimore,  where  a  steamer 
was  taken  to  Portsmouth,  Va.,  where  Sunday,  the  17th,  was  spent,  reach 
ing  Goldsboro,  by  way  of  Weldon,  Monday  morning.  Thereafter  Mr. 
Mitchell  tells  his  own  story,  the  same  having  been  printed  in  the  Somerville 
Journal,  March  30,  1889.— A.  S.  R. 


260        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

1862.  They  now  cordially  greeted  us  and  with  a  hearty  grip 
of  the  hand  made  the  honest  statement,  "  Boys,  the  war  is 
over  and  we  are  right  glad  to  see  you."  We  Avere  earnestly  en 
treated  to  stay  and  accept  their  hospitalities,  but  time  would 
not  permit.  We  secured  a  three-seated  carriage  and  a  pair  of 
horses  for  our  ride,  and  a  single  carriage  for  our  baggage  and 
quartermaster's  stores,  and  with  the  writer  for  driver,  respond 
ing  to  the  word,  "  Forward,"  we  left  for  the  Goldsboro  battle 
field,  about  three  miles  away. 

We  go  by  the  river  road  and  soon  cross  the  old  county 
bridge,  coming  in  sight  of  the  Wilmington  &  Weldon  Rail 
road,  where  it  crosses  the  river  and  over  which  is  the  covered 
bridge  which  was  burned  by  the  Union  troops  December  17, 
1862.  Before  crossing  we  see  the  railroad;  we  see  the  ruins  of 
heavy  breastworks  and  two  forts  that  the  rebels  had  erected 
and  maintained.  They  were  built  after  the  battle,  and  had 
we  tried  again  during  the  war  to  visit  Goldsboro,  no  doubt 
we  should  have  received  a  warm  reception.  But  to  return  to 
my  story.  The  county  road  now  crosses  the  railroad  and  runs 
through  the  centre  of  the  old  battle-field.  Desiring  to  view  the 
field  from  the  same  direction  as  that  taken  in  '62,  we  drove  to 
the  rear  and  to  the  mill  which,  so  many  old  boys  will  remember, 
was  burned  the  day  of  the  fight.  The  mill-dam  being  de 
stroyed,  near  the  close  of  that  fateful  day,  the  escaping  waters 
almost  cut  off  our  escape  from  the  field. 

Here  we  took  as  guide  J.  A.  Moore,  son  of  the  proprietor 
of  the  mill  in  battle  days,  and  who,  a  lad  of  thirteen  years 
then,  at  least  heard  the  fight  from  his  home.  Under  his  lead 
we  passed  over  the  field,  by  the  ruins  of  the  old  cotton-gin,  on 
and  over  the  brook,  up  the  hill,  and  here  we  got  the  same  view 
of  the  field  that  we  had  in  '62.  We  stand  on  the  ridge  where 
then  we  supported  Belger's  Rhode  Island  Battery.  Here  it 
was  that,  raked  by  rebel  grape  and  canister,  we  lay  upon  the 
ground  until  the  guns  of  the  enemy  were  silenced  by  those  of 
Belger  and  whence,  also,  we  saw  later  the  triple  charge  of  the 
rebels  on  our  lines,  resulting  so  disastrously  to  them.  Here  we 


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picked  up   minie-balls   as  mementoes  of  the  long  ago   day. 

After  dinner  we  started  for  Whitehall  through  the  pine 
woods  and  through  swamps  and  by  the  camp  ground  which 
we  occupied  the  night  after  our  retreat  from  Goldsboro. 
After  riding  a  while  we  walked  the  old  road  again  and  rehearsed 
the  times  of  old.  What  memories  were  ours  as  we  marched 
over  General  Foster's  route!  We  found  the  roads  just  as  soft 
and  sandy,  the  swamps  as  deep  as  of  yore,  and  1862  seemed  but 
yesterday.  We  made  the  pine  woods  ring  with  the  melody  of 
old  war  songs,  and  many  a  veteran  Confederate  planter  stood 
still  by  his  plow  and  regarded  us  with  astonishment  as  he 
heard  the  war-time  melodies  of  the  Yankee  soldiers.  Though 
he  recognized  them  he  none  the  less  greeted  us  most  heartily, 
evidently  pleased  at  meeting  Massachusetts  men  once  more. 
We  reached  the  village  of  Whitehall  at  sunset.  Though  the 
village  was  destroyed  by  the  Federals  in  '62,  it  has  been 
rebuilt  since  and  looks  to-day  substantially  as  it  did  on  that 
bright  December  day  when  Foster  drove  the  rebels  out  and 
burned  the  Confederate  gunboat  then  building  by  the  river's 
side.  On  account  of  the  discovery  of  a  number  of  medicinal 
springs  on  the  outskirts  of  the  village,  it  is  now  known  as 
Seven  Springs,  and  a  large  hotel  has  been  erected  near  for  the 
accommodation  of  northern  people  who  come  here  for 
remedial  purposes. 

Our  arrival  was  soon  heralded  through  the  hamlet  and  we 
became  the  centre  of  attraction.  There  being  no  hotel  here, 
Corporal  Davis  suggested  that  we  secure  the  little  town  hall 
as  barracks,  but  the  good  people  of  the  village  would  not  have 
it  thus  and  we  were  freely  offered  the  best  the  town  afforded. 
Quartered  upon  Postmaster  Simmons  we  found  him  the  most 
genial  of  hosts,  so  anxious  to  do  his  best  for  us  that  he  drove 
three  miles  to  a  plantation  to  secure  the  services  of  a  noted 
colored  cook  to  prepare  our  food.  She  served  us  admirably, 
and  during  our  stay  the  old  Confeds  seemed  to  think  nothing 
too  good  for  us.  Nearly  every  one  in  the  village  called  on  us, 
the  most  prominent  in  the  number  being  Colonel  George  H. 


262        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Whitfield,  the  proprietor  of  the  medicinal  springs,  and  a  large 
planter  besides.  He  served  in  the  Quartermaster's  department 
during  the  war,  and  his  house,  standing  on  the  outskirts  of  the 
town,  was  used  by  our  forces  as  a  hospital.  Visiting  the 
house,  we  found  Yankee  blood-stains  on  the  floors  and  here 
many  of  our  boys  breathed  their  last.  Here  it  was  that  Gilson, 
with  his  old  time  propensity  for  foraging,  found  in  an  adjoining 
building  a  bayonet  that  Colonel  Whitfield  had  recently 
plowed  up  near  the  spot  where  men  of  the  Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts  were  killed.  Comrade  Maynard  secured  an  ex 
ploded  Union  shell  which  until  recently  had  been  buried  in  a 
tree.  Though  the  tree  had  been  cut  down  and  piled  up  for 
burning,  the  shell  was  not  discovered  until  the  blaze  exploded  it, 
after  having  been  imbedded  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
Colonel  Whitfield  and  the  villagers  explained  the  positions 
of  the  rebel  sharpshooters  who  annoyed  us  so  much  during  the 
battle  and  he  paid  us  off  in  full  of  all  demands  with  Confederate 
scrip.  The  next  day  we  proceeded  to  Kinston,  whence  we  sent 
our  transportation-train  back  to  Goldsboro  and  took  fresh 
horses  for  the  trip  over  the  Kinston  field.  We  went  out  to 
Woodington  Church,  where  the  Fifth  lay  during  the  fight,  in 
charge  of  the  baggage-train.  How  vividly  came  back  to  us,  all 
the  escapades  and  adventures  of  that  day  in  the  early  sixties, 
not  excluding  apple-jack,  this  being  the  home  of  that  penetrat 
ing  beverage  and  the  far-famed  scuppernong  wine.  The  night 
was  spent  in  Kinston  and  the  next  day  we  took  the  train  for 
Newbern,  passing  by  the  rebel  fort  at  Mosely  Creek,  the  scene 
of  the  engagement  May  23,  1863,  when  we  captured  it;  thence 
through  the  Gum  Swamp,  where  we  were  nearly  if  not  com 
pletely  "  swamped  "  in  our  retreat;  thence  along  to  Core  and 
Batchelder's  Creek,  both  names  having  a  decidedly  familiar 
sound  to  our  ears.  We  stand  on  the  platform  of  the  car  as  the 
colored  brakeman,  who  was  here  in  war-times,  points  out  places 
of  interest  to  old  soldiers  of  the  Eighteenth  Corps.  Here  is 
the  covered  bridge  where  we  passed  so  many  days  and  nights 


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on  picket;  passing  by  Fort  Rowan,  the  train  begins  to  slacken 
speed  and  soon  the  trainman  shouts,  "  Newbern!  " 

It  is  the  veritable  old  town  with  seemingly  very  few  changes; 
its  streets  and  houses  have  altered  very  little;  the  line  of  breast 
works  and  the  forts  are  well  preserved.  The  old  Gaston 
house  looks  as  imposing  as  ever;  Masonic  Hall  (General  Fos 
ter's  headquarters),  many  buildings  used  as  hospitals  then, 
and  other  points  of  interest  are  just  the  same  to-day.  With 
our  baggage  "  toted  "  by  boys  of  considerable  color,  we  hasten 
to  Hotel  "  Albert,"  whence  we  radiate  in  search  of  old-time 
scenes.  Camp  Peirson  is  sought  first  of  all,  but  it  seems  to 
have  suffered  more  than  other  fortifications,  th^re  being  only 
some  parts  of  the  embankments  remaining,  while  the  camp 
and  parade  ground  are  thickly  covered  by  the  small  houses 
of  colored  people.  Still,  there  are  some  reminders  of  old  times, 
for  here  is  the  cedar  tree  that  stood  at  the  end  of  the  line  offi 
cers'  tents,  now  in  the  back  yard  of  a  negro  shanty.  Here  is 
the  swamp  which  once  divided  our  camp  from  that  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Massachusetts  and  there  on  the  left  is  the  one 
which  held  off  Fort  Rowan.  Here  was  the  long  row  of  cook 
houses,  and  we  almost  hear  the  welcome  call,  "  Fall-in,  Com 
pany  B,  for  your  hardtack."  Here,  in  fancy,  we  hear  and  see 
Captain  Parker,  Lieutenants  Bailey  and  Harrington,  as  well  as 
the  manly  presence  of  our  beloved  Colonel  Peirson  and  the 
old  comrades  of  the  Somerville  Light  Infantry. 

Leaving  the  old  camp  with  regret,  we  stroll  over  to  Forts 
Rowan  and  Totten,  both  well  preserved,  though  trees  are  grow 
ing  in  the  ditches.  The  view,  however,  from  the  ramparts 
reminds  us  of  long  ago.  Inside  the  forts  are  growing  early  gar 
den  vegetables,  the  ventures  of  large  planters  who  here  start 
for  northern  markets  such  growths  as  are  usually  begun  under 
glass.  Where  we  cut  away  th?  trees  for  unimpeded  artillery 
sweep,  now  flourish  fine  truck-farms,  one  of  the  city's  chief 
industries  being  the  raising  of  early  vegetables  for  the  North. 
Next  we  engage  the  services  of  "  Limber  "  Lewis  and  his  team 
of  mules  for  a  drive  out  to  Deep  Gully.  "  Limber  "  is  a  colored 


264        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

gentleman  who  feels  very  proud  of  his  war  record.  Veterans  of 
the  Fifth  and  the  Twenty-fifth  will  remember  him  as  the  wag 
oner  who  hauled  quartermaster's  stores  to  our  respective 
camps.  We  pass  out  by  Fort  Totten,  out  over  the  old  clearing 
into  the  woods,  on  by  Camp  Palmer,  the  abode  of  the  famous 
Third  Ne\v  York  Cavalry,  by  Rock  Run  (the  inner  picket 
line)  and  then  to  Deep  Gully.  Time  has  dealt  gently  with 
the  breastworks  here,  the  birds,  snakes  and  hogs  are  as  plenty 
to-day  as  then,  and  save  the  constant  outlook  for  Johnnie 
Rebs  up  the  road,  Deep  Gully  is  just  as  we  left  it. 

It  was  late  at  night  when  we  got  back  to  Newbern;  the 
roads  were  very  bad  (whoever  saw  them  otherwise  here?),  and 
"  Limber's  "  mules  were  well  nigh  jaded  out  when  we  reached 
camp.  Our  driver  was  full  of  war  reminiscence  and  we  sang 
war-time  songs  as  we  journeyed  cityward.  On  the  morrow, 
strolling  out  to  Fort  Rowan  and  standing  thereon,  we  looked 
across  the  river  to  Fort  Anderson,  recalling  the  events  of  that 
14th  of  March,  '63,  when  the  rebs  undertook  to  recapture  New 
bern;  also  the  many  weary  marches  whose  beginning  was  the 
crossing  of  the  Neuse  right  here.  Thence  we  visit  the  National 
Cemetery  where  lie  so  many  Union  dead,  3500  men,  who  lost 
their  lives  in  North  Carolina  that  the  nation  might  continue 
undivided.  We  had  expected  to  cross  the  river  on  leaving 
Newbern  and  thus  to  go  over  some  of  the  trips  made  that 
way  when  we  were  younger,  but  owing  to  high  water  the  roads 
were  deemed  impassable.  Hence  we  left  the  city  at  nightfall 
by  rail,  and  in  the  midst  of  a  heavy  snow-fall  rode  to  Kinston, 
where  we  remained  over  night.  The  next  day  we  rode  to 
Goldsboro,  whence  by  way  of  Rocky  Mount  we  proceeded  to 
Tarboro,  now  a  busy  manufacturing  town.  Owing  to  the  in 
vestment  of  northern  capital  here  in  cotton  mills,  the  prospects 
of  the  place  are  very  bright.  Our  advance  in  this  case  was 
easier  than  that  which  we  made  under  General  Foster  in 
November,  '62. 

Boarding  a  steamer  here,  we  steam  fifty  miles  down  the 
Tar  River  to  "  Little  "  Washington,  the  trip  being  made  espe- 


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cially  pleasant  through  the  courtesy  of  the  captain,  an  old  Con 
federate,  who  points  out  objects  of  interest  as  we  float  along. 
As  we  near  Washington,  we  pass  through  mementoes  of  the 
siege  in  the  shape  of  double  piling  chained  together  in  the 
river.  Our  landing  is  near  the  point  we  touched  on  our  first 
trip  here,  the  last  of  October,  '62.  Again  our  explorations 
reveal  very  little  alteration;  the  Grist  place  with  its  remark 
able  approaches  seems  unchanged.  Calling  there  we  are  met 
by  a  daughter  of  the  elder  Grist,  she  being  only  a  little  girl 
when  we  were  here  in  '62.  She  made  us  welcome  and  invited 
us  to  go  over  the  house,  view  the  premises,  and  make  ourselves 
perfectly  at  home.  In  Washington,  too,  we  found  genial  old 
Dr.  Gallagher,  who,  as  soon  as  he  learned  that  Union  soldiers 
had  arrived  in  town,  sent  his  compliments  and  requested  us 
to  call  at  our  earliest  convenience  and  partake  of  his  hospital 
ity.  H  ?  will  be  remembered  as  the  doctor  who  stayed  through 
the  Federal  occupation,  though  his  sympathies  were  with  the 
Confederacy  and  his  sons  were  in  the  rebel  army. 

One  of  Dr.  Gallagher's  sons  is  now  a  physician  in  the  vil 
lage,  and  through  his  kindly  efforts  we  were  able  to  make  the 
trip  to  Blount's  Creek  by  steamer.  As  the  roads  were  so  bad, 
we  chartered  a  steam-tug  and  with  the  jolly  doctor  as  a  com 
panion  and  guide,  we  sailed  down  the  river  past  Hill's  Point, 
where  was  located  the  battery  that  gave  the  "  Escort  "  such 
fiery  receptions  when  she  ran  the  blockade;  the  old  earthwork 
is  unchanged.  Entering  Blount's  Creek  we  wind  our  way 
through  its  many  devious  turns,  under  overhanging  trees, 
and  at  last  reach  the  saw-mill  and  find  ourselves  just  where  we 
were  when  the  attack  was  made  in  April,  '63.  The  earth 
works  stand  well  preserved,  and  we  feel  that  to  complete  the 
picture  of  long  ago  only  the  music  of  Belger's  Battery  is  lack 
ing.  We  stay  as  long  as  possible,  but  respond  to  the  tug's 
whistle  that  we  may  get  out  of  the  creek  by  daylight. 

In  Washington  we  go  over  the  fortifications,  none  of  which 
have  been  removed,  and  in  one  of  the  forts  we  find  Washing 
ton's  Confederate  monument.  The  next  morning  we  leave  the 


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FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


place  with  its  friends  and  pass  put  by  the  Grist  estate  and  to 
Bellevue  cross-roads,  where  Company  B  was  first  posted  on 
picket  when  we  started  away  from  Washington  in  '62  on  our 
way  towards  Rawle's  Mills.  It  was  here  that  we  had  our 
first,  not  dress,  but  rather  our  undress  parade  when  we  made 
ready  to  cross  that  wide  and  deep  mill-stream.  We  re-enter 
Williamston  and  spend  the  night;  the  villagers,  though  former 
Confederates,  are  the  soul  of  hospitality  and  cheerfully  take 
us  to  spots  that  we  recall.  Though  we  had  purposed  going 
hence  to  Plymouth,  we  were  debarred  by  the  floods,  so  by  rail 
we  went  to  Weldon;  and  from  that  point  we  made  our  way 
northward  and  homeward. 


OLD  SCENES  REVISITED. 


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268    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  T.  G RAMMER. 


THE  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS'  SERVICE. 

Preliminary. 

The  coming  of  General  Grant  out  of  the  West  like  another 
Lochinvar,  in  the  spring  of  '64,  had  wrought  many  changes  in 
the  surroundings  of  Washington,  the  capital  city.  It  was  early 
seen,  in  the  very  dawning  of  the  strife,  that  the  capital  must 
be  held  at  all  hazards.  Under  the  direction  of  skillful  engineers 
men  in  blue  had  labored  diligently,  if  not  always  willingly,  until 
immense  fortifications  to  the  number  of  sixty-eight  batteries 
and  forts  crowned  every  hill  and  knoll  and  guarded  every 
approach  to  Washington  on  both  sides  of  the  Potomac.  Fort 
Ellsworth,  one  of  the  largest  of  the  defenses,  the  Fifth  had 
helped  build  in  '61 ;  the  perimeter  of  the  space  inclosed  by  these 
works  was  more  than  thirty-seven  miles;  that  of  the  forts  them 
selves,  thirteen;  there  were  twenty  miles  of  rifle-pits  and  three 
block-houses,  besides  ninety-three  unarmed  batteries  for  field- 
guns  having  401  emplacements.  The  forts  themselves  had 
1120  emplacements  with  807  guns  and  93  mortars  actually  in 
position.  There  were  thirty-two  miles  of  military  roads  besides 
the  existing  streets  and  avenues  of  the  District  by  which  com 
munication  could  be  had  from  point  to  point.  To  man  these 
eartlrvvorks,  so  formidable  and  so  necessary,  there  were  many 
regiments  of  Heavy  Artillery  enlisted  especially  from  the  East 
ern  and  Middle  States.  They  were  well  drilled  in  the  use  of 
heavy  and  light  guns,  as  well  as  being  proficient  in  all  parts  of 
infantry  drill  and  tactics. 

When  Grant  was  gathering  his  mighty  hosts  for  the  death- 
grapple  with  Rebellion,  he  saw  these  magnificently  arrayed  men 
within  the  defenses,  and  recognizing  their  value  to  the  battle- 
line,  so  soon  to  be  flung  against  the  army  of  Lee,  he  ordered 
every  regiment  to  the  front.  Leaving  their  artillery,  heavy  and 
light,  behind  them  and  shouldering  their  muskets,  these  40,000 
fresh  soldiers  marched  out  to  the  reinforcement  of  the  Army  of 


270    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

the  Potomac,  just  bestirring  itself  from  its  winter  at  Brandy 
Station  and  already  looking  at  the  waters  of  the  Rapidan, 
beyond  which  lay  the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  Cold  Harbor, 
Petersburg  and  Appomattox.  It  was  a  motley  company  into 
whose  keeping  the  carefully  built  and  equipped  forts  were  en 
trusted.  The  new  General-in-Chief  knew  little  and  apparently 
cared  less  about  the  dangers  to  which  this  procedure  exposed 
the  President,  his  advisers  and  the  National  Government.  The 
perilous  situation  became  evident  in  the  following  July,  when 
Jubal  Early  and  his  following  knocked  fiercely  at  che  gates  of 
the  capital  guarded  by  Fort  Stevens.  The  nine  hours'  halt  at 
the  Monocacy,  July  9th,  where  Lew  Wallace  and  his  less  than 
a  single  division  of  the  Sixth  Corps,  with  a  few  Maryland  Home 
Guards  and  others,  had  held  the  rebels  until  the  remaining 
wearers  of  the  Greek  Cross  could  reach  Washington  from  City 
Point,  just  saved  the  city.  So  near  did  the  capital  come  to 
falling  a  prey  to  the  enemy!  Fear  and  consternation  seized  the 
dwellers  within  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  how  earnestly 
they  sighed  for  the  disciplined  soldiers  who  had  constructed 
and  once  manned  these  frowning  battlements.  It  was  in  such 
times  as  these  when  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  was  enfolding 
Petersburg  within  its  terrible  embrace  and  endeavoring  so  to 
hold  the  attention  and  strength  of  Lee,  that  there  might  be  no 
more  detaching  of  troops  for  assailing  the  capital  that  the  100 
Days'  Men  were  summoned  from  Massachusetts  and  elsewhere. 
The  beginning  of  Grant's  campaign,  early  in  1864,  strained 
the  resources  of  the  Government  as  they  had  not  been  tested 
before.  The  straits  in  which  the  authorities  found  themselves 
were  realized  by  some  of  the  war  governors  who  proffered  ready 
aid  thus:  "  On  the  21st  day  of  April,  1864,  Governors  Brough 
(Ohio),  Morton  (Indiana),  Yates  (Illinois),  Stone  (Iowa)  and 
Lewis  (Wisconsin)  made  an  offer  to  the  President  to  the  follow 
ing  effect:  that  these  states  should  furnish  in  the  aggregate 
85,000  troops  for  100  days,  Ohio  to  send  30,000, -Indiana  and  Illi 
nois,  20,000  each;  Iowa,  10,000,  and  Wisconsin,  5,000.  The 
whole  number  was  to  be  furnished  within  twenty  days;  they 


PRELIMINARY.  271 

were  to  be  armed,  equipped  and  transported  as  other  troops, 
but  no  bounty  was  to  be  paid  nor  was  any  credit  to  be  given  on 
any  draft.  After  full  conference  between  the  President  and 
General  Grant,  the  President  accepted  the  offer  and  inside  of  four 
weeks  Ohio  organized  and  placed  in  the  field  35,646  officers 
and  men,  largely  exceeding  the  stipulated  quota.  The  other 
states  contributed  with  proportionate  alacrity.  These  troops 
did  important  service  in  the  campaign;  they  supplied  garrisons 
and  held  posts  for  which  experienced  troops  would  be  required 
and  the  latter  were  relieved  so  as  to  join  the  armies  in  the 
field."  (Secretary  Stanton,  Rebellion  Records,  Series  III, 
Vol.  IV,  p.  534.) 

The  terms  for  which  these  men  were  mustered  would  ter 
minate  in  mid-summer,  moreover  the  enlistments  of  thousands 
of  three-years'  troops  were  up  at  about  the  same  time,  hence 
all  the  more  need  of  immediate  reinforcement.  To  this  end, 
early  in  July,  Governor  Andrew  wrote  to  the  War  Department 
offering  volunteers  from  Massachusetts  for  the  term  of  100 
days,  with  the  single  restriction  that  they  should  be  exempt 
from  draft  during  that  period.  To  this  letter  the  reply  of  Pro 
vost  Marshal-general  Jas.  B.  Fry  bears  date,  July  5,  '64,  and 
is  to  the  effect  that  the  Secretary  of  War  accepts  the  offer  on 
the  terms  named,  and  requests  the  sending  on  of  4000  infantry 
at  the  earliest  practicable  moment.  Apparently  the  Governor 
was  in  Washington  at  the  time,  since  in  the  same  letter  he  is 
requested  to  call  at  General  Fry's  office  at  10  a.m.  the  follow 
ing  day.  His  own -letter  to  Adjutant-general  Schouler  and  to 
his  private  clerk,  Colonel  Browne,  is  also  dated  the  5th,  and 
therein  he  states  that  Secretary  Stanton  desires  5000  100-days' 
volunteers  from  Massachusetts  to  garrison  fortifications  in 
Washington.  "  Get  our  fort  companies  to  volunteer  immedi 
ately  for  100  days  if  possible,  and  begin  new  companies  addi 
tional.  Issue  an  order  and  set  the  work  going  vigorously.  Let 
all  my  staff  make  every  effort." 


272    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


COMPANIES. 

No  other  positive  evidence  of  the  manner  of  ordering  out 
the  militia  for  active  service  than  the  foregoing  can  be  found, 
excepting  the  President's  call,  July  18,  1864,  for  500,000  men. 
Possibly  there  were  orders  from  the  State  House  and  prelimi 
nary  meetings  of  the  several  companies,  but  if  so,  the  records 
are  not  accessible.  However,  it  appears  that  companies  from 
Charlestown,  Somerville,  Woburn,  Peabody  and  Hudson  that 
had  been  in  the  nine-months'  service  responded  to  a  call,  and 
others  from  Boston,  Marlboro  and  Stoneham  also  appeared. 
The  companies,  places  and  captains  were  as  follows: — 

Company  A,  Boston,  Captain  George  H.  Homer, 
Company  B,   Somerville,   Captain  John  N.   Coffin, 
Company  C,  So.  Danvers  (Peabody),  Captain  Geo.  F.  Barnes, 
Company  D,  Charlestown,  Captain  George  H.  Marden,  Jr., 
Company  E,  Marlboro,  Captain  David  L.  Brown, 
Company  F,  Boston,   Captain  Philip  J.   Cootey, 
Company  G,  Woburn,  Captain  Charles  S.  Converse, 
Company  H,   Charlestown,   Captain  Daniel   W.   Davis, 
Company  I,  Marlboro  (Hudson),  Captain  Andrew  A.  Powers, 
Company  K,  Stoneham,  Captain  Francis  M.  Sweetser. 

Practically  all  of  the  field  officers  and  a  considerable  part 
of  the  line  had  seen  service  in  recent  campaigns,  while  in  the 
rank  and  file  were  men  who  had  served  faithfully  in  former 
years.  At  the  same  time,  examination  of  the  roster  will  show 
that  the  majority  of  the  men  were  very  young,  many  of  them 
below  the  draft  age,  though  they  may  have  given  their  ages 
as  eighteen,  an  exhibition  of  lapse  from  truth  that  the  recording 
angel,  we  hope,  overlooked.  The  alleged  danger  of  Washington, 
the  reputation  of  the  regiment,  acquired  in  its  two  former 
terms  of  service,  rendered  the  filling  of  the  old  and  the  enlisting 
of  the  new  companies  a  very  easy  task,  and  the  reporting  at 
the  Readville  rendezvous  began  at  once.  There  the  men 


COMPANIES.  273 

found  little  more  time  than  to  receive  uniforms,  arms  and 
equipments  before  they  were  ordered  away.  Colonel  George 
H.  Peirson,  who  had  so  efficiently  led  the  Fifth  in  the  North 
Carolina  campaign,  was  still  at  the  head  of  the  regiment, 
supported  by  W.  E.  C.  Worcester  as  lieutenant-colonel, 
Wm.  T.  Grammer  major,  and  Ed\vin  F.  Wyer  adjutant. 

There  were  some  items  of  enlistments  that  deserve  more 
than  passing  mention;  thus  while  Company  A  was  from 
South  Boston,  it  had  a  squad  of  seven  or  eight  boys  from 
Cape  Cod  who  had  come  to  Boston  on  soldiering  bent.  P^or 
fully  two  weeks  they  had  hung  around  the  city  with  hopes  of 
getting  in  somewhere.  The  South  Boston  company  was  their 
chance,  for  Captain  Homer  was  in  a  hurry  to  raise  his  requisite 
number.  The  Captain  sent  the  Cape  Codders  to  Readville. 
The  most  of  the  boys  were  undersized,  so  it  was  lucky  for 
them  and  history  that  they  reached  the  place  after  dark. 
They  were  told  to  be  ready  for  muster  that  evening.  Not 
wishing  to  leave  any  chance  for  being  rejected,  the  lads  made 
haste  to  increase  their  respective  bulks  by  recourse  to  the  hay 
bedding  that  was  furnished  the  barracks,  and  judicious 
stuffing  rounded  out  their  boyish  forms  in  good  shape.  Requi- 
site  stature  Avas  attained  by  stuffing  the  toes  of  their  boots 
with  hay,  thus  uplifting  their  heels  a  couple  of  inches;  in  this 
way  the  eye  of  the  mustering  officer  was  deceived  and  the 
most  of  the  boys  passed  muster.  The  Charlestown  companies, 
D  and  H,  reported  on  July  13th  and  14th  respectively.  A 
veteran  of  the  former  company  says,  "  We  started  in  citizen's 
garb,  each  man  with  a  box  or  bundle  under  his  arm,  some  with 
bunches  on  their  hips,  all  of  us  as  jolly  as  we  could  be."  It  is 
stated  that  in  Companies  E  and  I  there  were  a  dozen  men 
from  Stow  descended  from  soldiers  of  the  Revolution,  in  which 
struggle  the  good  old  town  had  a  company  of  seventy-seven 
men. 

Those  companies  and  men  that  arrived  in  time  were  put 
through  all  the  drill  possible  before  the  time  of  leaving,  but 
with  some  it  was  just  come  and  go,  and  there  is  no  long  story 
18 


274    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

of  hilarious  life  at  Camp  Meigs,  named  after  Major-general 
Montgomery  J.  Meigs,  Quartermaster-general  of  the  army. 
The  Boston  Transcript,  commenting  on  the  general  appearance 
of  the  regiment,  said:  "  Although  many  of  the  members  are 
quite  young,  it  is  doubtful  if  a  more  soldierly,  enthusiastic 
or  finer  looking  company  has  left  Boston  since  the  war  began." 
The  impending  draft  was  arousing  apprehensions  in  the 
minds  of  many,  and  the  funny  man  of  the  day  imputes  the 
following  refrain  to  one  of  the  nearly  "  scared-to-death  " 
fellows : 

"  Another  draft!    ah,  woe  is  me,  pray  tell  me  how  I  can 
Escape  the  call,  and  how  it  chanced  that  I  was  born  a  man? 
I  know  I  am  not  fit  to  serve,  I  don't  think  war  is  right; 
For  I'm  a  coward  and  poltroon,  and  I  don't  want  to  fight." 


DEPARTURE. 

The  dates  of  muster-in  range  from  the  16th  of  July  to  the 
28th,  on  which  day  the  regiment  departed  for  the  south, 
leaving  in  so  great  a  hurry  that  certain  men  absent  on  leave, 
with  no  expectation  of  such  hurried  departure,  were  left  behind, 
and  they  had  to  reach  their  organization  by  their  own  wits, 
no  one  desiring  the  reputation  of  a  deserter.  Colonel  Peirson 
himself  barely  reached  Readville  in  time  to  depart  with  his 
men,  they  being  in  the  very  act  of  embarking  on  the  train. 
There  had  been  little  time  to  prepare  cooked  rations  before 
starting,  and  as  there  was  no  chance  to  make  coffee  on  the 
cars,  the  commissary  outlook  was  far  from  alluring  to  some. 
One  informant  says  his  company  had  hardtack  and  corned 
beef.  The  cars  upon  which  the  regiment  wras  loaded  were 
open  platform,  with  temporary  seats  arranged,  and  being 
crowded  at  that,  the  ride  to  Providence  might  have  been 
more  enjoyable  than  it  really  was.  There  a  boat  was  taken 
for  New  York  city,  and  the  trip  down  the  Sound  lacked  many 
features  of  a  holiday  excursion,  though  fun  and  dancing  on 
its  main  deck  were  in  constant  evidence.  On  reaching  its 


DEPARTURE. 


275 


destination  ferryboats  were  taken  for  South  Amboy,  N.  J. 

On  leaving  New  York,  the  morning  of  the  29th,  rations  of 
hardtack  and  bologna  sausage  were  given  out;  the  former 
proved  all  right,  but  the  latter  was  so  aged  that  the  most  of  it 
was  thrown  overboard  to  the  fishes.  From  South  Amboy, 
cars  were  taken  to  Camden,  the  train  going  in  two  sections, 
about  ten  minutes  apart.  Frequent  stops  were  made  through 
the  State,  and  enthusiastic  receptions  were  accorded  the 
Massachusetts  boys,  with  liberal  supplies  of  food.  Camden 
was  reached  at  4  p.m.,  and  the  Delaware  was  crossed  by  ferry, 
whence  the  regiment  marched  to  the  places  where  generous 


Philadelphia,  throughout  the  war,  extended  lavish  hospitality. 
Whether  the  same  was  dispensed  at  the  Cooper  Shop  or  the 
Volunteer  Refreshment  Saloon,  it  was  all  the  same,  and  always 
absolutely  free.  That  veteran  who  ever  dined  here  must  have 
lost  his  memory  if  his  heart  does  not  glow  with  pleasure  at 
the  thought  of  what  the  City  of  Brotherly  Love  did  for  him 
and  his  comrades  as  they,  on  their  way  to  the  front  or  home 
ward  bound,  tasted  what  the  name  of  Pennsylvania's  chief 
citv  means. 


276    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

The  march  through  Philadelphia  was  accompanied  by 
enthusiastic  cheering  and  the  waving  of  flags,  the  populace, 
apparently,  never  tiring  of  seeing  the  vast  numbers  of  volun 
teers  who,  first  and  last,  made  the  streets  of  the  famed  city  a 
small  part  of  their  route  towards  the  south.  At  the  Baltimore 
station,  the  regiment  found  itself  confronted  with  a  train  of 
cattle-cars  for  its  conveyance  to  the  Monumental  City,  and 
six  companies  did  thus  ride  southward,  while  the  remaining 
four  were  comfortably  seated  in  regular  passenger  coaches. 
The  morning  of  Saturday,  the  30th,  revealed  Maryland's 
metropolis,  and  breakfast  was  secured  at  the  Soldiers'  Rest, 
the  quality  of  the  same  being  in  marked  contrast  to  the  supper 
in  Philadelphia.  However,  healthy  men  do  not  starve  when 
supplied  with  a  sufficient  amount  of  hardtack,  corned  beef 
and  coffee.  All  along,  the  soldiers  had  supposed  that  Washing 
ton  and  its  forts  were  their  ultimate  destination.  Some 
members  of  the  regiment  had  hurried  thither  three  years 
before  and  they  had  grown  to  think  they  might  have  a  chance 
to  save  the  capital  again. 


BALTIMORE, 

However,  it  appeared  that  Baltimore  had  need  of  these 
men  from  the  Bay  State,  and  here  they  were  retained.  Though 
all  of  the  rebel  brag,  bluster  and  bravado  of  1861  had  disap 
peared  and  the  city  was  on  its  good  behavior,  there  was  need 
of  a  numerous  assemblage  of  "  Boys  in  Blue,"  so  here  the  Fifth 
was  halted.  It  was  about  11  a.m.  when  the  line  was  reformed 
and  the  march  begun  which  ended  at  Mankinds  Woods,  a 
point  possibly  five  miles  outside  of  the  city  proper.  The  day 
was  extremely  hot,  and  this  trip  through  and  out  of  Baltimore 
was  made  when  the  sun  was  highest  and  hottest.  The  result 
can  be  foreseen  readily :  there  were  sun-strokes  and  a  demoral 
ization  not  unexpected,  considering  the  inexperience  of  the 
men.  Some  officers,  considerate  of  their  charge,  had  secured 


BALTIMORE.  277 

transportation  for  the  baggage  of  their  men,  but  this  did  not 
apply  to  many  who  had  to  carry  all  their  luggage  with  them, 
and  they  suffered  accordingly.  Some  men  thus  early  learned 
that  it  was  easier  to  carry  the  essentials  of  a  march  rolled  up 
in  their  blankets  rather  than  retain  their  knapsacks,  throwing 
the  latter  away,  though  at  the  very  best  the  march  was 
exceedingly  trying. 

Mankinds  Woods  proved  to  be  the  abode  of  the  regiment 
for  several  weeks,  and  diligent  effort  was  made  to  produce 
uniform  action  among  the  men,  to  very  man}''  of  whom  a  gun 
was  an  entirely  unknown  weapon  and,  until  the  present,  they 
had  learned  only  the  simplest  rudiments  of  drill.  It  was  the 
boast  of  the  State  that  unexampled  activity  had  been  shown 
in  reaching  the  south,  yet  there  were  those  toiling  under  a 
Maryland  August  sun  who  questioned  at  least  one  word  in 
the  general  statement  current  at  the  time,  viz.,  that  Massa 
chusetts  had  raised,  armed,  equipped,  drilled  and  sent  to  the 
field  5000  men  in  twenty-five  days,  thanks  to  the  efficient 
manner  in  which  Governor  Andrew  kept  the  militia.  Too 
much  emphasis  had  been  put  on  the  word  "  drilled."  As  a 
matter  of  fact  a  large  number  of  these  "  Boys  in  Blue  "  had 
been  boys  in  school  up  to  the  close  of  the  same,  early  in  July, 
and  parental  consent  had  been  secured  to  enable  them  to  be 
the  soldiers  that  Colonel  Peirson  and  his  officers  were  making. 

"  Mankin's  Woods  was  an  ideal  spot  for  a  military  camp: 
high  and  dry  ground,  heavily  wooded,  with  springs  of  good 
water  and  a  stream  near  by  for  bathing."  Apparently 
the  conditions,  so  finely  set  forth,  exist  to-day  and  no  doubt 
account  for  the  fact  that  the  famous  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital 
is  situated  near  the  site  of  the  Fifth's  first  camp.  Says  one 
eloquent  observer:  "  Surely  our  lines  had  fallen  in  pleasant 
places,  and  we  hugged  to  ourselves  the  delusive  thought  that 
we  had  a  goodly  heritage."  However  delightful  the  surround 
ings,  there  was  no  delay  for  recuperation,  since  on  the  next 
day,  July  31,  there  was  a  grand  review  of  all  the  troops  en 
camped  in  the  vicinity,  an  early  introduction  to  the  Third 


278    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.Y.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Separate  Brigade,  Brigadier-general  Henry  H.  Lockwood, 
one  of  the  many  brigades  making  up  the  Eighth  Army  Corps, 
commanded  at  this  time  by  Major-general  Lew  Wallace. 
The  day  proved  to  be  exceedingly  hot,  103°  F.  in  the  shade, 
so  said,  and  as  a  result  heat  prostrations  were  numerous. 
Men  right  out  of  offices,  stores  and  workshops  were  far  from 
being  acclimated,  and  they  wilted  easily.  Company  G 
suffered  particularly,  Surgeon  Treadwell  pronouncing  some 
of  the  cases  the  worst  he  had  ever  seen.  Another  serious 
feature  was  the  fact  that  he  was  entirely  lacking  in  hospital 
supplies  and  was  unable  to  get  from  the  Baltimore  dispensary 
the  brandy  for  which  he  had  made  a  requisition.  On  appealing 
to  the  officers,  he  found  one  who  acknowledged  having  a 
bottle  which  he  said  had  been  given  to  him  by  a  friend  in 
Readville,  and  this  he  would  gladly  contribute.  The  surgeon 
was  profuse  in  his  thanks,  and  said  he  would  surely  make  good 
the  loan  when  his  demand  on  the  local  source  of  supplies  was 
recognized.  The  officer  long  since  made  up  his  mind  that  the 
requisition  was  never  honored,  for  the  debt  remains  unpaid 
until  this  day. 

Throughout  the  loyal  portions  of  the  country,  August  4, 
Thursday,  was  observed  as  a  day  of  fasting  and  prayer  by 
Proclamation  of  the  President,  to  the  end  that  "  God  in  His 
infinite  goodness  might  soften  the  hearts,  enlighten  the  minds 
and  quicken  the  consciences  of  those  in  rebellion,  that  they 
may  lay  down  their  arms  and  speedily  return  to  their  allegiance 
to  the  United  States,  that  they  may  not  be  utterly  destroyed, 
that  the  effusion  of  blood  may  be  stayed,  and  that  unity  and 
fraternity  may  be  restored,  and  peace  established  throughout 
our  borders."  While  folks  at  home  could  repair  to  churches 
for  worship,  to  soldiers  in  the  field,  the  weapons  to  secure  the 
objects  prayed  for,  there  was  not  so  much  variation  in  daily 
duties. 

Exactness  in  dates  does  not  seem  to  be  a  characteristic  of 
these  days,  rather  do  we  find  "  about  this  time  "  of  frequent 
recurrence.  However,  it  is  probable  that  the  beautiful  view 


BALTIMORE.  279 

of  Baltimore  and  the  salubrious  air  of  Mankin's  Woods  were 
enjoyed  for  nearly  or  quite  two  weeks  when  there  came  an 
order  directing  Colonel  Peirson  to  report  with  his  command 
to  Gen.  W.  W.  Morris  at  Fort  McHenry.  Somehow  the  idea 
again  became  prevalent  that  Washington  was  the  real  destina 
tion  of  the  Fifth,  and  rather  than  put  the  regiment  to  the 
fatigue  of  the  long  march,  the  kind  and  careful  Colonel,  on 
reaching  the  city,  sent  his  Adjutant  ahead  to  report  to  the 
General  and  ascertain  if  he  had  any  further  commands. 
Though  the  stare  from  the  camp  had  been  made  late  in  the 
afternoon,  mid-August  weather  was  not  likely  to  be  very  cool, 
and  the  men,  under  their  heavy  burdens  of  outfit  and  camp 
equipage,  suffered  not  a  little,  so  that  straggling  became 
common  before  the  end  of  the  march. 

Adjutant  Wyer  obeyed  the  order  of  the  Colonel  and  rode 
forward  to  the  fort,  and  being  ushered  into  the  presence  of 
General  Morris,  after  saluting,  said,  "  Colonel  Peirson  of  the 
Fifth  Massachusetts  Infantry  presents  his  compliments  and 
desires  to  know  if  you  wish  him  to  report  in  person  with  his 
command,  or  have  you  other  directions  for  him?  "  To  this 
statement,  the  General,  who  was  a  fine  representative  of  the 
old  school  of  officers,  replied,  "  Tell  your  Colonel  to  report 
at  once  with  his  command."  As  the  Adjutant  turned  to 
depart,  the  General  resumed,  "  Lef tenant,  what  sort  of  a 
regiment  is  yours?  "  The  "  Lef  tenant "  was  not  slow  in  reply  ing: 
"  Like  all  Massachusetts  regiments,  a  good  one."  "  What 
part  of  the  State  was  it  recruited  from?  ';  Ans.,  "  Boston 
and  vicinity."  "  Are  there,  among  the  officers,  any  liberally 
educated  men?  "  Ans.,  "  Yes,  one  captain  and  one  first 
lieutenant."  "  Have  you  any  good  clarks  among  the  enlisted 
men?  "  Ans.,  "  Yes,  many  of  them."  "  Have  you  any  good 
artisans  among  the  enlisted  men,  such  as  joiners,  plasterers, 
brick-layers,  whiteners,  decorators?  "  Ans.,  "  Yes,  lots  of 
them."  "  Tell  your  Colonel  to  report  as  soon  as  he  arrives." 

It  would  seem  that  these  Yankees  were  just  the  folks  the 
General  had  been  looking  for,  since  they  would  be  able  to  do 


280    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

a  variet}'  of  things  of  which  he  thought  himself  in  need.  The 
garrison  of  the  fort  had  consisted  of  four  companies  of  regular 
artillery  with  the  192d  (100  days)  Pennsylvania,  the  latter  to 
be  relieved  by  the  Fifth  and  to  go  at  once  to  Ohio  for  duty  at 
Bolton  Station,  opposite  the  mouth  of  the  Great  Kanawha 
River  of  West  Virginia.  One  informant  says  that  first  night 
in  the  fort  was  signalized  by  a  severe  storm  of  rain,  lightning 
and  all  the  accompaniments  of  that  time  of  the  year.  There 
was  an  abundance  of  water  and  no  tents  were  up.  When 
later  the  barracks  in  which  the  new  comers  were  to  be  lodged 
were  inspected,  they  were  found  to  be  in  a  condition  quite  out 
of  keeping  with  the  Massachusetts  standard,  having  already 
more  than  a  quota  of  inhabitants,  not  men  in  blue  uniforms, 
but  real,  many-footed  graybacks,  as  bloodthirsty  as  such 
parasites  are  wont  to  be.  Permission  to  camp  outside  the 
fort  was  sought  and  obtained,  and  under  shelter-tents  on 
sloping  ground,  along  the  southwesterly  side  of  the  fort, 
between  it  and  the  Patapsco  River,  the  men  found  shelter  and 
better  accommodations  than  the  over-populous  fort  afforded. 
When  the  regiment  from  the  Keystone  State  was  to  depart. 
Colonel  Peirson  was  anxious  that  its  exit  should  be  made  with 
all  due  military  formalities  and  honors.  Hence  he  had  passed 
around  word  that  the  Fifth  would  be  drawn  up  in  line  and  that 
the  extreme  of  precision  and  attention  should  be  exhibited. 
The  surprise,  not  to  say  disgust,  of  the  Colonel  can  better  be 
imagined  than  described  when  he  and  his  regiment  beheld  the 
departing  troops  file  by  without  the  slightest  acknowledgment 
of  the  courtesies  extended.  Of  course  the  lapse  was  owing  to 
lack  of  training,  not  to  intentional  impoliteness. 


FORT  MCHENRY.  281 


FORT  MCHENRY. 

Fort  McHenry,  where  our  regiment  was  for  a  time  encamped, 
and  in  or  near  which  some  part  of  the  Fifth  remained  during 
its  entire  service,  was  fragrant  with  history,  and  one  of  the 
members  of  Company  D  who  lay  down  in  the  darkness  of  the 
arrival  night,  unknowing  as  to  his  whereabouts,  rubbed  his 
eyes  with  astonishment  in  the  morning  at  the  familiar 
appearance  of  his  surroundings,  until  it  dawned  upon  him  that 
his  sight  beheld'in  verity  what  he  some  years  before1  had  seen 
pictured  in  (Reason's  Pictorial  as  the  interior  of  Fort  McHenry 
of  Baltimore.  His  boyish  hand  had  copied  the  representation; 
so  vivid  had  been  the  impression  and  so  exact  his  memory, 
he  recognized  the  place  and  objects  at  once.  The  fort  was  the 
result  of  an  act  of  the  Maryland  Legislature  in  1793,  giving 
to  the  Federal  Government  the  privilege  of  erecting  a  fortifica 
tion  on  Whetstone  Point,  to  which  was  afterwards  given  the 
name  of  Washington's  Secretary  of  War,  James  McHenry, 
who,  an  ardent  patriot  of  that  State,  had  accompanied 
Washington  when  the  latter  journeyed  to  Cambridge  in  I77o 
to  take  command  of  the  American  Army.  He  died  in  1816, 
three  years  after  Francis  Scott  Key  had  immortalized  the 
fortress  by  his  "  Star  Spangled  Banner/7  written  while  the 
British  fleet,  in  which  he  was  held  a  prisoner,  was  bombarding 
the  fort. 

The  commandant  of  "  McHenry,"  General  Wm.  Walton 
Morris,  born  in  Ballston  Spa.,  X.  Y.,  1801,  was  a  West  Pointer, 
1820,  and  had  had  a  part  in  nearly  everything,  in  a  military 
way,  that  the  country  had  known  from  that  time  to  the  begin 
ning  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  He  had  fought  Indians  in 
Florida,  had  served  on  the  Canadian  frontier  in  1839,  won 
distinction  and  promotion  in  the  Mexican  War,  assisted  in 
quelling  disturbances  in  Kansas,  and  the  Rebellion  found  him 
a  Colonel  in  command  at  Fort  McHenry,  whose  guns  it  was 
his  privilege  to  train  on  the  rebellious  Baltimoreans  on  the 


282    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


FORT  McHENRY.  283 

19th  of  April  of  that  year,  when  they  were  offering  the  reverse 
of  hospitalities  to  the  Massachusetts  Sixth,  thus  preventing  a 
continuance  of  their  riotous  behavior.  His  refusal  to  honor 
the  writ  issued  by  a  Maryland  judge  demanding  the  person 
of  a  soldier  belonging  to  his  garrison,  on  the  ground  that  the 
beginning  of  hostilities  had  suspended  the  habeas  corpus  act, 
secured  for  him  the  admiration  of  all  loyal  people.  He  was 
old-fashioned  in  his  manners,  pronunciation  and  straight 
forwardness,  and  the  men  of  the  Fifth  respected  him  fully. 
He  had  already  been  brevetted  a  brigadier,  and  later  was 
similarly  honored  with  a  brevet  major-general's  rank  in  the 
U.  S.  Army.  He  died  in  Baltimore,  December  11,  1865. 

As  far  as  the  regiment  was  concerned  in  this  term  of  duty, 
it  never  got  nearer  Washington  than  Baltimore,  nor  were  the 
services  of  the  Fifth  rendered  as  an  entire  organization. 
There  were  too  many  points  in  and  about  the  city  to  be  looked 
after  to  warrant  the  continued  presence  of  the  whole  body  at 
any  one  place  for  any  length  of  time.  While  Baltimore  had 
become,  outwardly,  very  calm  and  apparently  resigned,  there 
was  a  feeling  in  Federal  circles  that  the  closer  and  keener  the 
watch  over  the  city  and  her  citizens,  the  better  it  would  be  for 
the  countr}r.  There  were  men  and  women  engaged  in  business 
who  were  constantly  under  espionage,  and  sometimes  they 
were  detected  in  their  efforts  to  give  aid  and  comfort  to  the 
enemy.  The  raid  of  Jubal  Early  in  the  preceding  July  with 
the  accompanying  cavalry  progress  of  Harry  W.  Gilmor,  the 
burning  of  railroad  bridges,  the  capture  of  Union  officers  and 
other  successes  had  inflamed  the  hearts  of  rebel  sympathizers 
almost  to  the  point  of  open  declaration  of  their  sentiments* 
All  the  time  they  w^ere  sending  through  the  lines  expressions 
of  their  devotion  to  the  secession  cause,  and  if  a  rebel  officer 
blossomed  out  in  a  new  uniform  of  gray,  the  probabilities 
were  that  it  came,  either  made  up  or  in  the  cloth,  from  Balti 
more. 

Again  the  system  of  recruiting  then  in  progress,  the  returning 
of  paroled  or  exchanged  prisoners  to  their  regiments,  required 


284    FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.Y.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

some  central  point  of  distribution.  The  high  bounties  offered 
had  given  an  incentive  to  desertion  and  re-enlistment,  thus 
giving  rise  to  what  became  known  as  "  bounty-jumping/' 
and  the  service  was  afflicted  with  accessions,  when  they  could 
be  delivered  to  their  respective  destinations,  of  a  large  number 
of  undesirable  men  whom  a  considerable  force  had  to  watch 
constantly.  Just  such  a  centre  of  distribution  Baltimore  had 
become,  and  to  accomplish  the  proper  rendering  of  recruits, 
prisoners  and  soldiers  at  the  end  of  furloughs  to  their  places 
was  to  absorb  the  time  and  services  of  the  men  of  the  Fifth 
for  the  greater  part  of  their  enlistment.  Then,  too,  there 
were  in  this  1864  many  Confederates,  captured  in  the  Potomac 
campaign  and  in  that  whirlwind  advance  of  Sheridan  in  the 
Valley  of  the  Shenandoah,  who  had  to  be  delivered  at  the 
points  devoted  to  their  retention.  All  this  time  Fort  McHeiiry 
had  been  the  place  of  confinement  of  many  citizens  of  Balti 
more,  to  whom  the  fortification  became  a  veritable  Bastile, 
a  name  which  the  rebelliously  inclined  were  wont  to  apply 
frequeiitly.  Under  the  battlements  of  the  fort  was  found 
place  for  the  confinement  of  rebel  prisoners,  whose  safe 
keeping  was  also  largely  in  the  hands  of  the  Fifth.  There  was 
an  abundance  of  incident  and  variety  in  the  duties  to  which 
the  regiment  was  assigned,  and  at  no  time  during  its  nominal 
presence  in  Baltimore  was  there  any  danger  of  tedium  through 
lack  of  occupation. 

The  removal  of  the  Fifth  to  Fort  McHenry  brought  about 
new  brigade  relations,  the  regiment  being  now  in  the  Second 
Separate  Brigade,  under  the  command  of  Gen.  W.  W.  Morris. 
It  was  not  a  very  great  array,  since,  aside  from  the  Fifth, 
there  were  only  two  companies  or  batteries,  H  and  K,  of  the 
Second  U.  S.  Artillery.  In  October  the  name  of  the  Ninety- 
first  N.  Y.  Infantry  appears,  but  even  then  it  could  not  have 
been  contemporary  with  the  Massachusetts  men  a  great  while, 
since  the  latter  returned  home  the  first  of  November.  Possibly 
the  New  Yorkers  succeeded  the  Fifth.  Pleased  as  the  men 
were  to  find  themselves  assigned  to  the  historic  Fort  McHenry, 


FORT  McHENRY.  285 

it  was  not  for  all  of  them  to  remain  there  long,  since  there  were 
other  fortifications  to  be  garrisoned,  so  the  regiment  was 
apportioned  out  among  Forts  Federal  Hill,  Marshall  and 
Carroll,  leaving  a  portion  of  the  men  in  McHenry.  The 
first-named  fort  was  the  result  of  General  Butler's  occupation 
in  May,  '61,  and  the  wisdom  of  his  action  was  shown  many 
times  during  the  subsequent  years.  Placed  at  the  terminus 
of  Fell's  Point,  rising  fully  thirty  feet  above  McHenry,  it 
commanded  that  as  well  as  the  city  itself.  Laid  out  under  the 
direction  of  Major  Henry  Brewerton  of  the  U.  S.  Topographical 
Engineers  and  built  by  one  of  the  New  York  Zouave  (Duryea's 
Fifth)  regiments,  the  defenses  inclosed  the  entire  crown  of  the 
hill.  It  was  so  arranged  that  the  angles  of  the  bastions,  by 
means  of  its  guns,  could  rake  every  street  leading  thereto. 
Fort  Marshall  was  a  strong  earthwork,  occupying  space  east 
of  Patterson  Park,  near  the  centre  of  the  city.  Fort  Carroll 
was  built  on  low-lying  land  some  eight  miles  down  the  bay  and 
was  notoriously  unhealthful,  so  much  so  that  in  subsequent 
years  it  was  roofed  over  and  abandoned.  Wherever  placed, 
the  duties  of  the  men  were  substantially  the  same,  viz.,  guard 
and  escort  work. 

Wherever  the  members  of  the  regiment  may  have  boon 
during  their  Baltimore  stay,  it  would  seem  that  some  part  of 
them  were  at  Fort  McHenry  all  of  the  time.  Among  the 
several  communications  outlining  the  services  of  the  Fifth 
an  agreement  appears  as  to  several  points,  such  as  the  presence 
of  rebel  prisoners  and  the  holding  of  certain  distinguished  men 
in  the  inner  fort,  though  as  to  the  latter  there  is  a  manifest 
difference  when  attempts  are  made  to  name  them.  As  a 
tarrying-place  for  people  of  alleged  treasonable  tendencies, 
McHenry  disputed  honors  with  the  Old  Capitol  of  Washington, 
and  Forts  Lafayette  and  Warren  of  New  York  and  Boston 
respectively.  Among  the  most  distinguished  who  were  held 
here  for  a  while  were  Mayor  George  Win.  Brown  and  his  Chief 
of  Police,  George  P.  Kane,  of  Baltimore;  Harry  W.  Gilmor, 
also  a  Baltimorean,  afterwards  gaining  the  rank  of  Colonel  in 


286    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

the  Confederate  service,  who  as  a  spy  was  held  from  September, 
'62,  to  February,  '63,  and  in  the  year  1864  he  was  particularly 
annoying  to  the  Union  cause,  along  with  the  raid  of  Early  into 
Maryland.  The  Official  Records  of  the  Rebellion  print  the 
names  of  many  who  were  held  at  the  fort,  but  no  mention  is 
made  of  a  certain  quadruped  that,  it  is  claimed,  was  also  a 
prisoner  for  a  time.  The  famous  trotting  horse,  "  Flora 
Temple,"  long  the  property  of  Hiram  Woodruff,  had  been 
sold  in  1858  for  $8000  to  William  McDonald,  a  wealthy 
citizen  of  Baltimore,  who  in  1861  had  the  poor  judgment  to 
evince  rebel  sympathies,  and,  as  a  consequence,  his  then 
fleetest  steed  in  the  world  was  confiscated  in  August,  or  an 
effort  was  made  in  this  direction,  and  she  was  led  off  to  the  fort. 
It  is  also  claimed  that  her  owner  accompanied  her  to  the  prison, 
and  divided  the  stall  with  his  celebrated  possession.  Later 
the  property  of  Mr.  A.  Welsh  of  Philadelphia,  she  died  De 
cember  21,  1877,  at  the  great  age,  for  a  horse,  of  more  than 
thirty-two  years. 

Clarence  Littlefield  of  Company  G  asserts  that  August  14th 
three  companies  under  Colonel  Peirson,  with  Adjutant  E.  F. 
Wyer,  were  ordered  to  Fort  Marshall;  three  more,  under 
Lieutenant-colonel  Worcester,  went  to  Federal  Hill;  a  still 
smaller  detachment  was  sent  down  the  bay  to  Fort  Carroll, 
leaving,  nominally,  four  companies  at  McHenry.*  These  with 
the  two  companies  of  regulars  had  to  do  the  work,  proper  for 
twice  that  number.  "  The  old  brick  storehouses  are  sur 
rounded  by  a  stockade  and  are  filled  with  Confederate  prison 
ers,  conscripts  and  substitutes."  This  day,  the  14th,  eight 
men  were  detailed  from  each  company,  making  thirty-two 

*Frank  T.  Robinson,  in  his  History  of  the  Regiment  (Boston,  1879), 
says  that  Companies  B,  K  and  H  were  ordered  under  Colonel  Peirson  to 
Fort  Marshall;  Lieutenant  Fowler  of  Company  F  with  twenty  men  was  at 
Fo  t  Larroll;  Corporal  Webster  of  Company  H  with  seven  men  was  at  the 
Lazerette  Magazine;  the  same  source  of  distribution  assigns  A,  C,  D,  F,  1 
an  1  K  to  Fort  Federal  Hill  under  Lieutenant-colonel  Worcester,  while  G, 
under  Major  Grammer,  was  retained  at  McHenry.  However  this  may 
have  been  at  the  first  separation,  the  incidents  following  indicate  many 
other  redistributions.  The  loss  of  the  regimental  order  books  renders 
closer  data  impossible. 


FORT  MCHEXRY.  287 

in  all,  as  a  guard  for  a  party  of  115  prisoners,  bounty-jumpers, 
stragglers  and  conscripts  to  Alexandria.  "  We  arrived  there 
without  losing  a  man  and  returned  to  the  fort  in  safety/' 
Confederate  prisoners  had  to  be  taken  to  Point  Lookout, 
the  tip-end  of  Maryland  at  the  mouth  of  the  Potomac;  these 
men  acted  as  guards  in  getting  them  there.  In  one  such  trip 
the  escort  was  surprised  to  find  the  regiment,  guarding  the 
enclosure,  to  be  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  Cavalry  (colored), 
and  one  of  that  body  said  he  had  found  his  old  master  among 
the  prisoners,  an  interesting  turning  of  the  tables.  The 
acquisitive  faculty  is  early  and  easily  developed  in  the  soldier, 
and  when  this  escort  found  on  the  dock  many  barrels  of  onions 
and  sweet  potatoes  in  the  great  abundance  of  provisions 
there  piled  up  for  the  use  of  those  without  as  well  as  those 
within  the  stockade,  cupidity  was  so  far  excited  that  when 
the  boys  went  back  to  Baltimore,  a  considerable  quantity  of 
the  vegetables  went  with  them,  and  the  appetizing  odor  of 
onions  about  camp  indicated  that  the  supplies  were  at  once 
turned  over  to  the  cook.  While  no  record  of  their  reception 
was  made,  the  men  were  none  the  less  grateful  for  the  chance 
to  improve  their  health  and  spirits. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  General  Morris  inquired 
earnestly  as  to  artisans  in  the  Fifth  when  the  regiment  reported 
for  service.  He  soon  found  employment  for  men  of  nearly  all 
trades  represented.  The  old  fort  needed  them  badly,  and 
soon  the  sound  of  the  builder  wras  heard  as  the  carpenters  and 
masons  all  but  made  over  the  chapel,  barracks  and  other  parts 
of  the  fort.  A  baker  was  found  for  the  bake-house,  a  butcher 
for  the  commissary  department,  and  M.  T.  Allen  (G),  whose 
stature  placed  him  at  the  extreme  left  of  the  company,  was 
detailed  as  an  orderly  for  the  General.  Two  masons,  Win.  S. 
York  and  Humphrey  Chadbourn,  also  of  "  G,"  for  their  first 
job  were  sent  to  the  chapel,  where  they  were  to  mix  a  bed  of 
mortar,  at  which  they  demurred,  claiming  not  to  know  how. 
When  the  situation  was  reported  to  General  Morris,  the  latter 
sent  for  Captain  Converse  to  find  out  why  such  men  were 


288    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

sent  as  masons.  The  Captain  comprehended  the  condition 
at  once,  and  was  able  to  make  it  clear  to  the  officer  that  at 
home  they  were  master-masons  and  not  hod-carriers.  The 
choleric  old  General  sawr  the  point  immediately  and  subsequent 
orders  brought  the  additional  workmen  needed. 

The  first  task,  assigned  to  carpenters,  E.  M.  Coffin,  Geo. 
W.  Kimball,  James  H.  Knowlton  and  E.  H.  Lawrence,  of  "  G," 
was  the  enlargement  of  a  gallows,  originally  constructed  for 
one  culprit,  so  that  it  might  be  used  for  four  at  one  time. 
August  17th,  after  due  trial,  four  men  were  condemned  as 
spies  and  sentenced  to  be  hanged  on  the  29th.  As  the  senior 
officer  in  command,  the  execution  of  the  sentence  devolved 
upon  Major  Grammer,  a  duty  by  no  means  coveted  by  him. 
It  was  near  midnight,  before  the  fatal  day,  when  the  Major 
was  aroused  from  his  sleep  by  the  guard,  who  announced  the 
arrival  of  Orderly  Allen  with  a  document  from  General  Morris 
announcing  the  reprieve  of  the  condemned  men,  and  an  order 
committing  them  to  the  penitentiary  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  for 
the  remainder  of  the  war,  an  order  soon  after  carried  into 
effect.  In  1875,  when  the  Centennial  of  the  Battle  of  Bunker 
Hill,  June  17,  was  celebrated  in  Charlestown  and  the  Fifth 
Regiment  of  Maryland  became  the  guests  of  the  Fifth  Regi 
ment,  M.  V.  M.,  a  member  of  the  former  body  sought  out  the 
then  Colonel  Grammer  and  introduced  himself  as  one  of  the 
quartette  that  just  escaped  death  at  his  command.  On  the 
21st  of  August  the  hearts  of  the  Woburn  men  were  gladdened 
by  a  visit  from  Samuel  Grammer,  a  brother  of  the  Major, 
Charles  W.  Converse,  son  of  the  Captain,  and  George  Conn, 
all  from  Woburn  and  all  bringing  news  from  home. 

Nor  were  diversions  wanting  at  Fort  McHenry.  Nothing 
escapes  the  wideawake  Yankee;  he  soon  learned  how  to  catch 
crabs,  and  he  practiced  much  of  his  spare  time.  It  took  two 
to  make  the  catching  successful,  thus:  one  man  tied  a  string- 
to  a  piece  of  salt  pork  and  lowered  it  into  the  Patapsco  River, 
his  partner  standing  by  with  a  scoop-net.  Very  soon  the 
claw-armed  crustaceans  had  the  pork  in  their  clutches,  each 


FORT  McHENRY.  289 

one  hanging  on  with  all  his  might.  It  is  then  that  fisherman 
No.  1  carefully  pulls  up  his  string  and  No.  2  as  gently  pushes 
under  the  net,  and,  as  the  crabs  let  go  on  leaving  the  water, 
they  drop  into  the  trap,  to  be  transferred  thence  to  the  boiling 
pot,  where  they  speedily  become  most  toothsome  morsels. 
By  judicious  exchange  with  M.  J.  Flanagin  (H),  head  cook 
for  the  officers,  the  latter  got  a  taste  of  the  Patapsco  luxury, 
while  the  fishermen  had  soft  bread  with  their  catch.  This 
amusement,  however  diverting,  came  to  an  abrupt  end  one 
morning  by  the  discovery  of  the  body  of  a  member  of  the 
Ninety-first  N.  Y.  floating  in  the  water  a  short  distance  from 
shore.  He  had  been  drowned  while  trying  to  swim  around 
the  wall  enclosing  the  grounds  and  extending  into  the  river. 
That  he  was  a  bounty-jumper  appeared  in  the  $400  in  bright, 
fresh  greenbacks  contained  in  his  pockets.  The  unclad 
portions  of  his  body  had  been  badly  mutilated  by  the  crabs, 
and  the  fishermen  all  at  once  lost  their  appetites  for  shell-fish, 
thus  proving  themselves  far  more  fastidious  in  taste  than 
Barham's  "  Lady  "  (Ingoldsby  Legends),  whose  "  Knight  '; 
had  been  drowned  in  a  favorite  eel-pond  and  whose  garments, 
covering  his  body,  half  eaten  by  eels,  disclosed  scores  of  the 
good  woman's  favorite  food.  Nothing  loth,  she  had  the 
squirming,  snake-like  fishes  prepared  for  her  supper  and, 
when  the  meal  was  over  and  she  was  folding  her  napkin,  she 
said  to  the  valet : 

"  Eels  a  many  I've  ate:    but  any  so  good  ne'er  tasted  before! — 
They're    fish,    too,    of    which    I'm    remarkably   fond, — 
(lo — pop    Sir    Thomas    again    in    the    pond — 

Poor    dear!    He'll    catch    us    some    more!  " 

A  certain  lieutenant  was  officer  of  the  guard,  in  which 
capacity  he  had  some  words  with  an  enlisted  man  who  pro 
tested  that  it  was  only  the  uniform  and  buttons  that  saved 
him,  the  officer,  from  a  good  "  licking."  The  Charlestown 
wearer  of  shoulder-straps  did  not  forget  that  he  was  from 
Bunker-Hill-town  and,  remarking  that  such  little  things  as 
buttons  and  straps  need  not  stand  in  the  way,  just  doffed  the 
outfit  and,  inviting  the  fellow  to  the  space  outside  the  gate, 
19 


290    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

in  much  less  time  than  it  takes  to  tell  it,  had  changed  the  face  of 
the  boaster  so  that  his  best  friend  would  not  have  recognized  him. 

Who  was  he?  Several  writers  agree  as  to  there  having  been 
a  prisoner  of  state  within  the  innermost  part  of  Fort  McHenry, 
but  they  do  not  agree  as  to  who  he  was,  their  opinions  being 
as  variant  as  are  the  names  given  the  famous  "  Man  in  the 
Iron  Mask."  The}'  claim  that  he  was  kept  there  through  the 
entire  war.  They  agree  that  he  was  confined  in  a  room  on  the 
ground  floor  and  that  his  door  was  open  in  warm  weather. 
The  sentinel  who  stood  on  this  post  often  received  fruit  and 
other  courtesies  from  the  distinguished  prisoner,  he  seeming 
to  have  rich  and  influential  friends  in  the  city,  who  drove  out 
in  their  carriages,  bringing  fruit  and  other  delicacies.  In  the 
morning  and  afternoon,  at  stated  periods,  he  would  be  per 
mitted  to  be  out  of  his  room  a  few  minutes,  when  he  would 
pace  up  and  down  the  prescribed  space  as  rapidly  as  possible 
to  keep  up  his  vigor  and  strength.  His  snowy  white  hair 
well  set  off  his  refined  face.  The  strong  and  massive  gates 
to  the  inner  fort  were  closed  and  fastened  every  night. 

In  their  trips  to  the  many  places  where  recruits  and  others 
were  consigned,  the  men  of  the  Fifth  had  a  good  opportunity 
to  study  southern  geography  and  to  meet  some  of  the  famous 
men  of  the  day.  One  man  writes:  "  We  left  Baltimore  on  the 
sidewheel  steamer  '  Georgiana  '  and  steamed  down  the  Chesa 
peake  to  Fortress  Monroe,  wrhere  we  landed  with  our  detail 
and  there  embarked  on  another  boat,  passing  our  fleet  of 
gunboats  anchored  in  Hampton  Roads,  getting  a  good  view 
of  the  wrecks  of  the  '  Cumberland  '  and  '  Congress/  made  so 
by  the  Rebel  ram  Merrimac;  finally  reaching  the  grand  Union 
base  of  supplies,  City  Point,  on  James  River.  The  sight  of  so 
many  soldiers,  the  sound  of  artillery  firing  on  Petersburg, 
and  the  general  hustle  and  hurry  quite  impressed  us  young 
men  so  recently  from  home.  We  saw  General  Grant,  smoking 
in  his  tent,  surrounded  by  a  number  of  his  officers.  We 
brought  back  with  us  many  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  from 
the  front." 


FORT  McHENRY.  291 

September  10th,  Horace  Pearsons  (G)  died  in  the  McHenry 
Hospital  of  typhoid  fever,  this  being  the  second  death  in  the 
regiment,  Lemuel  Gott,  Jr.  (I)  having  died  in  Baltimore, 
August  29,  the  result  of  sunstroke.  At  the  expensb  of  his 
comrades,  the  body  of  Pearsons  was  embalmed  and  sent  home 
for  burial.  A  comrade  of  Pearsons  says  that  in  his  delirium 
he  fancied  that  he  could  reach  home  by  swimming  under 
water,  and  one  day  he  saw  his  chance  when  the  nurse  was  in 
another  part  of  the  ward  and,  slipping  out,  he  ran  to  the  water's 
edge  and  plunged  in.  His  absence  was  soon  discovered  and, 
being  followed,  he  was  caught  just  as  he  entered  the  stream 
and  was  returned  to  his  cot  to  die  in  the  old-fashioned  way. 
This  same  10th  of  September  was  the  date  of  a  false  alarm, 
when  shots  from  the  direction  of  the  Confederate  prisons  were 
followed  by  what  was  thought  the  long  roll,  the  men  rushing 
hurriedly  into  line.  Fortunately  the  alarm  proved  to  be  a 
false  one  and  quiet  once  more  reigned.  August  had  its  day 
of  fasting;  September  followed  with  one  of  thanksgiving  for 
the  signal  victories  of  Sherman  in  Georgia,  and  those  of 
Farragut  and  Canby  in  Mobile,  Alabama.  Sunday,  the  llth, 
was  the  day  set  apart  for  observance  in  Baltimore,  and  all 
who  could  be  spared  from  duty  attended  divine  service. 

The  22d  of  the  month  witnessed  the  military  execution  of 
Geo.  W.  McDonald,  a  deserter  from  the  Third  Maryland 
Cavalry,  who  had  added  to  his  offense  through  resisting  and 
shooting  the  arresting  officer.  He  was  said  to  be  a  fine  speci 
men  of  physical  manhood,  thirty-eight  years  old,  six  feet 
and  three  inches  tall;  from  Illinois  originally,  he  was  in  Texas 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  and  there  enlisted  in  the  Texas 
Rangers.  Captured  in  battle,  he  had  taken  the  oath  of  alle 
giance,  but  evidently  he  was  always  an  adventurer,  very  likely  a 
bounty-jumper.  Twelve  hundred  soldiers  and  a  hundred 
civilians  were  present;  the  former,  under  command  of  Major 
Grammer,  formed  on  three  sides  of  a  hollow  square  in  front  of 
the  gallows.  The  firing  party,  consisting  of  six  men  from  the 
regulars  and  as  many  more  from  the  Ninety-first  N.  Y., 


292    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

marched  slowly  on  the  field  to  the  strains  of  the  Dead  March 
in  Saul  as  played  by  the  muffled  drums,  halting  by  the  side 
of  an  open  grave,  where,  also,  was  the  coffin  soon  to  contain 
the  mortal  remains  of  the  soldier.  After  the  reading  of  the 
findings  of  the  court-martial,  August  17th,  by  the  Provost 
Marshal  and  some  remarks  by  the  prisoner,  he  was  made 
to  kneel  by  the  side  of  the  coffin,  having  been  bound  and 
blindfolded.  At  the  word  of  command  the  squad  fired  and  the 
deserter  fell  forward,  his  body  pierced  by  five  bullets. 


Bombardment  of  Fort  M'Jltnry.  Baltimore  /a/4. 
A  Contemporary  Print. 

To  go  back  a  few  days  in  this  record,  it  should  be  stated 
that  the  13th  of  September  was  not  forgotten  by  the  men 
who  found  themselves  in  the  historic  fort,  since  that  day  was 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  bombardment  of  McHenry 
by  the  British  fleet  under  Vice-admiral  Sir  Alexander  Coch- 
rane.  Francis  Scott  Key,  a  Mary  lander,  was  a  prisoner  on 
board  one  of  the  enemy's  vessels  and  saw  the  entire  display  of 
fireworks;  the  Britons  firing,  it  is  said,  from  1500  to  1800 
shells,  only  400  of  which  fell  within  the  works,  the  garrison 
losing  only  four  men  killed  and  twenty  wounded.  The  most 


FORT  MCHENRY.  293 

aggravating  feature  of  the  attack,  to  the  men  within  the  fort, 
was  their  inability  to  reach  the  fleet  by  any  missiles  their  guns 
would  throw.  They  simply  had  to  stand  and  take  what  the 
enemy  sent,  but  the  flag  flew  through  the  entire  bombardment. 

Another  incident  of  these  days  of  early  fall  is  recorded  by 
Captain  Homer  of  Company  A,  at  the  time  Assistant  Provost- 
Marshal,  serving  on  the  staff  of  General  Wallace.  A  stock 
company  from  the  Boston  Museum  was  playing  "  The  Heir 
at  Law  "  at  the  Holliday  Street  Theatre.  The  Captain  and 
his  wife,  both  ardent  theatre-goers,  were  present,  pleased  with 
the  idea  of  seeing  and  hearing  such  favorite  Boston  artists  as 
William  Warren,  Josephine  Lawton  and  Emily  Mustayer. 
Of  course  the  city  was  under  martial  law,  with  a  provost- 
guard  at  every  theatre.  Somewhere  in  the  play  occur  the 
words,  "  Thank  God  I  am  not  an  American."  The  actor 
who  recited  this  passage,  himself  an  Englishman,  for  the 
evident  purpose  of  exciting  sympathy  in  the  audience  and 
gaining  the  applause  always  so  dear  to  the  Thespian's  ear, 
exclaimed,  "  Thank  God  I  am  not  a  Yankee."  Immediately 
the  whole  house  rose,  waved  handkerchiefs  and  hurrahed. 
Mrs.  Homer,  turning  to  her  husband,  said,  "  This  man  is 
not  giving  his  line  as  he  should;  don't  you  recall  it?  " 
With  blood  at  fever -heat,  the  Captain  went  behind  the  cur 
tain,  had  the  actor  taken  to  the  guard-house,  and  the  affair 
was  reported  to  General  Wallace  the  next  morning.  The 
Captain's  ready  action  made  subsequent  variations  of  lines 
for  the  sake  of  rebel  applause  less  popular. 

An  unusually  desperate  lot  of  men  was  started  from  Fort 
McHenry  under  Fifth  Regiment  convoy.  There  was  more 
than  the  usual  proportion  of  blacklegs  among  the  motley  crew 
that  started  from  Baltimore,  many  of  them  clearly  determined 
that  they  would  not  report  to  whatever  point  they  may  have 
been  assigned.  One  managed  to  get  away  before  leaving 
Baltimore.  On  reaching  Washington  the  party  was  sent  to 
the  "  Soldiers'  Relief  "  for  the  night,  to  be  marched  to 
Alexandria  the  next  day.  Just  as  "  taps  "  were  sounded  and 


294    FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.V.M..  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


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FORT  FEDERAL  HILL.  295 

lights  were  extinguished,  a  rush  was  made  for  one  of  the 
doors.  "  We  were  in  a  large,  square  room,  one  of  several 
under  the  same  roof,  with  two  doors  on  the  exposed  sides; 
most  of  the  men  were  asleep  on  the  floor  under  their  blankets. 
I  had  been  watching  a  half  dozen  or  more  playing  a  game  of 
poker  near  the  door  towards  which  the  rush  was  made.  Two 
men  got  through  the  door  and  climbed  the  fence  in  the  rear 
of  the  barracks.  The  near-by  guard  cried,  '  Halt!'  and  fired. 
We  learned  the  next  day  that  one  of  the  men  escaped  and  the 
other,  terribly  wounded,  was  taken  to  the  hospital,  where, 
it  was  rumored,  he  died."  The  commotion  aroused  the 
reserve  guard,  who  came  hurriedly  in  and  investigation 
disclosed  the  interesting  fact  that  preparations  had  been 
made  by  many  of  the  men  to  make  a  general  attempt  to 
escape;  its  culmination,  however,  was  frustrated  by  the 
untimely  effort  of  these  men,  who  apparently  were  afraid  the 
break  would  not  be  made. 

FORT  FEDERAL  HILL. 

The  duties  of  the  companies  stationed  here  were  not  unlike 
those  assigned  to  the  men  remaining  in  Fort  McHenry,  though 
its  proximity  to  the  railroad  made  it  more  convenient  as  a 
point  of  distribution  of  recruits  constantly  arriving  from 
points  north,  east  and  west.  The  Virginia  side  of  the  Potomac 
had  its  Camp  Distribution,  opposite  Washington,  and  the 
camp  in  Baltimore  was  of  a  similar  nature,  though  possibly  a 
less  number  of  men  were  halted  here,  and  finally  sent  on  to 
the  many  regiments  of  the  Potomac  Army.  As  a  Company  D 
man  writes:  "  Every  week  large  numbers  of  recruits  and 
convalescents  arrived  at  this  post  from  Hart's  Island,  N.  Y. 
Harbor;  Elmira,  Western  N.  Y.;  Gallipolis,  Ohio,  and  other 
points.  The  guards  who  had  accompanied  them  thus  far  were 
relieved  and  sent  back  to  their  respective  stations.  After  a 
large  number  had  been  gathered,  the  officers  in  charge  would 
read  the  names  of  the  men  who  were  to  go  to  the  front,  there 


296    FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.Y.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS, 

to  join  their  several  regiments  and  batteries.  When  ready, 
these  men  were  accompanied  to  the  trains,  under  the  guard  of 
members  of  the  Fifth  and,  still  under  their  direction,  the  party 
would  be  taken  to  City  Point,  Washington,  Harper's  Ferry 
and  other  places. 

The  National  Tribune  (Washington,  D.  C.),  February  23, 
1911,  has  the  following  purporting  to  come  from  L.  S.  Griswold, 
Chatham,  N.  Y.: 

Some  100  days'  men  from  Massachusetts  were  doing 
garrison  duty  in  Fort  Federal  Hill,  Baltimore,  during  the 
month  of  September,  1864.  Along  with  a  party  of  convales 
cents  and  recruits,  I  was  put  in  the  barracks  to  remain  over 
night.  The  moon  was  shining  very  bright,  when  I  heard  the 
sentinel  sing  out,  "  Halt!"  and  looking  out  I  saw  a  man  running 
towards  the  parapet.  He  did  not  stop  at  the  word,  but  sprang 
upon  the  breastwork.  The  sentinel,  who  was  running  towards 
him,  fired,  but  missed.  The  fellow  sprang  over  the  pickets  and 
the  sentinel  after  him.  Soon  came  the  call,  "  Corporal  of  the 
Guard,  Post  26,"  and  soon  came  the  corporal  and  the  guard. 
I  heard  him  ask,  "  Where  is  the  sentinel  of  this  post?  "  The 
answer  came  from  the  outside  of  the  fort,  "  Here  I  am;  I've 
got  a  jumper.  Put  a  man  on  my  post  and  come  out  through 
the  gate."  The  morning  revealed  the  "jumper"  with 
bayonet  thrust  through  his  leg,  and  thus  not  much  of  a  jumper 
of  any  sort.  As  those  of  the  Fifth  were  the  only  Massachusetts 
men  in  the  fort,  the  punctual  sentinel  must  have  been  one  of 
the  "  Yanks." 

Post  24  at  Federal  Hill  was  a  favorite  with  those  doing 
guard  duty,  since  residing  near  were  people  of  Union  senti 
ments  who  always  brought  out  a  good  dinner  to  the  sentinel 
at  that  hour.  A  reason  for  this  unusual  procedure  was  given 
in  the  statement  that,  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  the  head  of 
this  house  was  arrested  by  the  disloyal  authorities  and  kept  in 
confinement  until  the  arrival  of  General  Butler,  who  reversed 
things  in  Baltimore,  and  our  Union  man  came  out  and  his 
rebel  persecutors  went  in.  Gratitude  for  this  act  of  the 
distinguished  officer  prompted  the  conspicuous  generosity  of 
the  patrons  of  Post  24.  There  were  other  posts  not  so  agree- 


FORT  FEDERAL  HILL.  297 

able,  especially  those  where  wharf-rats  abounded,  and  so 
numerous  were  they,  it  was  not  an  infrequent  act  for  a  sentinel 
to  bayonet  one  or  more  of  the  preying  rodents. 

Comrade  Libby  of  Company  D  writes:  ''One  afternoon 
when  doing  dut}',  under  the  open  window  of  one  of  the  bar 
racks,  holding  a  large  number  of  new  arrivals,  I  observed  one 
of  the  latter  rolling  up  bankbills  as  he  would  a  card  and 
dropping  them  into  his  canteen.  I  said  to  him,  '  Johnny,  drop 
some  of  them  out  to  me.'  He  replied,  '  I  have  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  here,  and  I'll  give  you  half  if  you  will  give  me  a  chance 
to  get  away  to-night.'  My  next  was,  'Oh  no,  Johnny,  I  don't 
care  to  spend  the  rest  of  the  war  at  the  Rip  Raps  with  a  ball 
and  chain  on.'  '  In  1864  bounty-jumping  was  at  its  height, 
and  out  of  every  squad  arriving  for  the  front,  a  considerable 
part  was  ready  to  depart  if  opportunity  offered.  Private 
Libby  writes  again:  "  Just  on  the  brink  of  the  hill,  facing  the 
harbor,  were  the  camp-sinks  back  of  the  barracks,  and  guards 
were  always  posted  there.  One  night  when  at  supper,  we  were 
startled  by  the  report  of  a  musket,  indicating  an  attempt  to 
escape.  One  of  the  '  jumpers,'  dashing  by  the  guard,  had 
plunged  down  the  hill,  only  to  receive  the  ball  through  his  hat. 
That,  however,  did  not  stop  him,  but  the  police  of  the  city 
were  specially  vigilant  on  account  of  the  reward  of  $60  per 
capture,  so  it  was  not  long  before  the  would-be  runaway  was 
returned.  He  remarked  that  he  thought  he  would  not  take 
any  more  chances  of  that  sort;  the  front  itself  could  not  be 
more  dangerous." 

Target-shooting  was  practiced  on  the  back  side  of  this 
same  hill  Saturday  mornings,  preparatory  to  cleaning  up  guns 
and  equipments  for  Sunday  inspections,  and  on  one  such 
occasion,  some  citizens  came  hurrying  in,  saying  that  bullets 
were  passing  through  their  houses.  To  do  this  and  reach 
houses  half  a  mile  away  and  far  over  the  edge  of  the  hill,  the 
culprits  must  have  intentionally  elevated  their  pieces  far 
above  the  targets;  but  the  spirit  of  deviltry  often  prompts 
men  and  boys,  especially  the  latter,  to  do  unaccountable 


298    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

things.  At  Fort  MeHenry,  where  soldiers  went  down  to  the 
water's  edge  to  discharge  their  guns,  men  were  known  to  take 
deliberate  aim  at  fishing-boats,  perhaps  a  mile  off,  and  the 
way  anchor  was  tripped  and  the  speed  with  which  small  creeks 
were  sought  indicated  that  bullets  were  reaching  them. 

It  is  written  that,  September  24th,  a  salute  of  100  guns  was 
fired  in  honor  of  the  great  victory  won  by  Sheridan  at  Winches 
ter.  It  was  one  of  the  not  over  enjoyable  duties  of  the  soldier 
to  go  through  certain  stores  in  search  of  contraband  goods, 
that  is,  articles  presumably  held  for  the  purpose  of  trying  to 
pass  them  through  the  lines.  At  one  time  a  detachment  was 
sent  down  into  the  city  to  quell  a  riot  on  Eastern  Avenue,  one 
of  the  worst  streets  in  Baltimore,  or  any  other  city  for  that 
matter,  at  that  time,  and  again  men  of  the  Fifth  were  directed 
to  take  the  stacked  guns  and  colors  of  a  three-years'  Pennsyl 
vania  regiment  which  had  mutinied;  this  being  done  by  a  100 
days'  organization  made  the  medicine  all  the  more  bitter.  One 
long-term  soldier,  somewhat  under  the  influence  of  fire-water, 
announced  his  ability  to  whip  any  100  days'  man  that  ever 
lived.  Whereupon  one  of  the  Fifth  boys  remarked  that  he  was 
willing  to  give  the  braggart  a  chance.  In  the  moving  picture 
that  ensued  the  long-termer  got  all  that  was  coming  to  him, 
but  he  was  not  a  little  consoled  when  he  learned  that  his  victor 
had  served  three  years  before  going  into  the  Fifth,  a  bit  of 
knowledge  wrhich  drew  from  the  vanquished  the  sad  statement, 
"  I  thought  something  was  the  matter  with  him." 

John  F.  Whiting  of  "  E  "  enters  the  following  in  his  account 
of  experiences :  "  I  was  sent  to  Washington  with  three  negroes, 
chained  together.  We  rode  to  Washington,  but  there  I  was 
told  that  the  walking  was  good  to  Alexandria,  where  I  had  been 
ordered  to  deliver  my  charge.  On  getting  back  to  the  Soldiers' 
Rest  I  was  told  to  report  with  a  squad  of  five  men  to  the 
office  of  the  Provost  Marshal,  and  there  I  was  ordered  to  pro 
ceed  under  the  lead  of  a  guide  to  Ford's  Theatre,  where  we 
arrested  a  well-dressed  man  wearing  a  tall  silk  hat,  whom  on 
our  return  we  delivered  at  Fort  McHenry.  Who  he  was,  I 


FORT  FEDERAL  HILL.  299 


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GUARDS   AND  PATROLS: 


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Commanding:   CPosf. 


never  knew.  I  have  preserved,  all  of  these  years,  the  pass  given 
me  when  in  the  capital/'  It  was  not  all  work  at  the  fort;  the 
boys  had  their  fun-drill,  guard-duty  and  escort  notwithstand 
ing.  If  they  could  not  got  passes,  they  slid  down  the  incline 
which  they  had  tunneled  through  the  hill  to  Pratt  Street;  as 
they  could  not  climb  back  they  had  to  take  their  chances  on 
their  safe  return.  A  beer-saloon  and  billiard-room,  kept  by  a 
Dutchman,  was  a  favorite  gathering  place  also  on  Pratt  Street. 
For  favors  rendered  the  bounty-jumpers,  some  of  the  men  were 
liberally  rewarded,  though  their  memories  were  sometimes 
poor  in  the  matter  of  returning  change,  and  even  the  major  part 
of  the  errand,  viz.,  the  canteen  of  whiskey,  did  not  always  reach 
its  proper  destination.  One  of  the  fort  tasks  was  to  fill  red- 
flannel  bags  with  powder  for  cannon  cartridges,  using  a  copper 
scoop  and  wearing  on  their  feet  wash-leather  moccasins. 
After  so  much  care  against  explosions  it  may  be  imagined  the 
greetings  that  men  received  who  came  within  range  smoking 
a  cigar  or  pipe. 


300    FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


FORT  MARSHALL. 

Having  a  central  location  on  the  eastern  boundary  of  Patter 
son  Park,  this  fortification  played  an  important  part  in  main 
taining  order  in  the  city  and  in  reducing  the  rebellious  spirit  of 
some  of  the  fire-eaters  to  a  state  of  outward  compliance 
with  the  rulings  of  the  National  Government.  Here  were 
the  Colonel  and  Adjutant,  and  thus  here  were  the  head 
quarters  cf  the  regiment,  during  nearly  all  of  its  term,  very 
widely  distributed.  From  this  point  also  were  sent  recruits 
and  others  to  their  several  destinations,  and  there  was 
very  little  time  for  ease  or  play,  in  spite  of  the  general  impres 
sion  that  the  short-termers  had  an  altogether  easy  time.  It 
\vas  while  thus  garrisoning  Fort  Marshall  that  Colonel  Peirson 
received  an  order  from  General  Morris  to  the  effect  that  he 
should  detail  one  cf  his  most  reliable  officers  and  one  private  to 
conduct  and  deliver  to  the  Provost  Marshal  at  Washington  a 
Confederate  officer.  "  Send  none  but  the  most  trusty  and 
dependable  men."  Whereupon  the  Colonel,  turning  to  Adju 
tant  Wyer,  remarked,  "  You  must  detail  yourself,  Adjutant." 
Of  this  duty,  the  Adjutant  writes: 

The  officer  was  Major  Johnston  of  the  —  Virginia  Cavalry, 
who  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  was  just  beginning  the  prac 
tice  of  law  in  Baltimore;  his  strong  southern  sympathies 
prompted  him  to  give  up  his  profession  and  to  enter  the  Con 
federate  service,  where  he  won  promotion  and  the  reputation 
of  being  one  of  the  most  fearless,  aggressive  and  resourceful 
leaders  in  the  cavalry  of  northern  Virginia .  He  was  a  man  of 
commanding  presence,  more  than  six  feet  in  height,  fine  figure, 
having  a  haughty  military  bearing,  the  latter  being  consider 
ably  emphasized  by  his  new  Confederate  uniform  which  his 
admirers  in  Baltimore  had  just  presented  him.  When  the  tow 
ering  form  of  the  Major  thus  arrayed  and  resplendent  with  em 
broidery,  gold  lace  and  the  insignia  of  his  rank  was  turned  over 
to  the  detail,  the  responsibility  was  felt  to  be  great,  especially 
with  the  injunction,  "  Watch  him,"  added,  since  this  was  the 
second  time  he  had  been  captured.  He  had  already  escaped 
from  the  Old  Capitol  Prison  of  Washington  once,  and  would 


FORT  MARSHALL. 


301 


r:        d  O 


302    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

hesitate  at  nothing  to  secure  his  liberty.  There  was  neither 
sleep  to  my  eyes  nor  slumber  to  my  eyelids  until  we  received  a 
receipt  for  his  safe  delivery  to  the  Provost  Marshal  of  Washing 
ton.  While  waiting  in  the  station  for  the  Baltimore  train,  my 
attention  was  roused  at  the  vigorous  applause  given  an  officer 
wrho  was  passing  through  the  crowd.  On  asking  who  the  officer 
was,  I  was  told  that  he  was  General  Sheridan,  then  returning 
to  his  Shenandoah  Valley  force.  Neither  he  nor  I  knew  that 
the  next  day  was  to  usher  in  the  battle  of  Cedar  Creek  and 
Sheridan's  Ride,  "  From  Winchester,  twenty  miles  away." 

It  was  in  these  Fort  Marshall  days  that  Adjutant  Wyer  per 
suaded  his  fellow  townsman,  Major  Grammer,  to  ride  out  with 
him  to  see  the  famous  stables  of  William  McDonald,  the  owner 
of  the  still  more  famous  Flora  Temple,  during  her  long  career 
011  the  race-track,  easily  the  queen  thereof.  The  Major  was 
not  particularly  "  horsey,"  but  the  Adjutant  had  seen  the 
trotter  on  the  track  and  doted  on  all  kinds  of  equines.  The 
day's  inspection  made  a  deep  impression  on  both  men,  though 
the  Major  did  not  enthuse  over  the  gaunt  figure  of  the  bob- 
tailed  trotter.  He  did,  however,  wax  eloquent  over  the  fine 
points  of  the  running  nags,  and  to  the  day  of  his  death  it  was  a 
favorite  diversion  of  his  friends  to  get  him  to  tell  of  that  visit. 
The  stables  themselves  were  a  veritable  revelation  to  a  steady- 
going  New  Englander,  with  their  colored  jockeys  and  a  dozen 
or  more  of  the  fastest  steeds  in  America.  While  the  Adjutant 
loved  to  describe  the  characteristics  of  Flora,  his  superior 
officer  failed  to  recognize  them,  but  did  warm  up  as  he  recalled 
the  fleet  runners  and,  having  a  tolerably  florid  vocabulary, 
could  and  did  tell  the  story  of  the  visit  in  a  way  to  interest  all 
listeners. 

Perhaps  no  service  of  the  regiment  was  more  fruitful  of  good 
than  that  rendered  in  October,  when  it  assisted  in  steadying 
the  hinds  and  heads  of  Maryland  voters  who  then  voted  on 
th?  question  of  ratifying  the  new  constitution  of  the  State.  For 
nearly  three  months  a  convention  had  been  considering  the 
question  and  had  finally  reported  a  measure  which,  among 
other  features,  included  the  abolition  of  slavery  and  the  dis- 


GUARDING  THE  POLLS.  303 

franchisement  of  all  those  who  had  borne  arms  against  the  gov 
ernment  or  had  in  any  way  aided  the  Rebellion;  all  partic 
ipants  also  in  the  election  were  compelled  to  take  the  oath  of 
allegiance.  To  see  that  all  classes  of  people  were  allowed  equal 
privileges  at  the  polls,  that  only  eligible  voters  should  partici 
pate,  and  that  the  oath  was  duly  administered,  required  the 
presence  in  certain  parts  of  armed  men,  hence  the  sending  of  a 
large  part  of  the  Fifth  in  detachments  to  many  polling-places, 
the  names  of  only  a  few  of  them  being  remembered.  The  fol 
lowing  interesting  statement  is  made  by  one  of  the  officers  who 
directed  a  party  into  the  dreary  section  known  as  the  "Eastern 
Shore":- 

GUARDING  THE  POLLS. 

One  night  at  about  8  o'clock,  just  before  Maryland  was  to 
vote  on  her  new  constitution,  the  companies  at  Fort  McHenry 
were  ordered  to  board  a  transport,  taking  their  commissary 
stores  in  bulk,  and  within  an  hour  the  order  was  complied  with. 
The  departure  was  made  under  sealed  orders,  no  one  knowing 
the  destination  :— 

About  midnight  the  orders  were  opened  and  the  Eastern 
Shore  was  found  to  be  our  goal  and  the  guarding  of  election 
booths  our  duty.  The  first  company  to  land  was  commanded 
by  a  staff  officer,  who  was  to  proceed  to  the  town  of  Trappe  in 
Talbot  County  and  report  to  the  supervisor  of  elections.  Not 
having  a  very  clear  idea  of  the  distance  to  Trappe,  nor  of  the 
means  of  forwarding  the  baggage  of  the  party,  there  being  only 
one  house  in  sight  and  that  a  quarter  of  a  mile  away,  he  decided 
to  get  his  bearings,  if  possible,  at  the  place  named  and  also  to 
secure  a  mule  as  a  burden-bearer.  The  mansion  in  question 
was  a  fine  specimen  of  colonial  days,  standing  some  300  yards 
back  from  the  road,  with  slave-quarters  in  the  rear,  also  large 
and  commodious  stables  and  out-houses,  evidently  the  home 
of  some  agricultural  aristocrat  and  slave-owner. 

Opposite  the  house  the  company  halted  and  the  commander 
proceeded  to  interview  the  occupants.  A  vigorous  tattoo  by 
means  of  the  old-fashioned  brass  knocker  soon  brought  to  the 
door  a  man  of  about  fifty  years,  who,  at  first  sight,  would  be 


304    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

classed  as  an  educated,  well-bred  gentleman.  But  the  war 
apparently  had  engendered  in  him  a  bitter  animosity  against 
the  government  and  its  supporters,  for  when  the  purpose  of 
the  call  was  made  known,  viz.,  the  use  of  a  mule-team  and 
driver  to  take  the  supplies  from  the  landing  to  Trappe,  for 
which  services  he  should  be  paid,  he  replied,  glancing  towards 
the  road  where  the  company  could  be  seen,  "  I  see  you  have  the 
power  to  take  anything  you  want;"  and  with  fire  in  his  eye  and 
venom  in  his  heart,  he  launched  into  a  tirade  of  abuse,  calling 
us  "  Lincoln  hirelings/7  who  had  come  to  coerce  and  intimidate 
honest  voters  at  the  elections.  Without  avail  the  officer  told 
him  that  he  was  in  error.  "We  have  been  sent  down  here,  at  the 
request  of  the  civil  authorities*  of  the  State  of  Maryland,  to 
assist  them  in  conducting  a  lawful  and  orderly  election,  where 
every  voter  can  cast  his  ballot  as  he  chooses  and  have  it  count 
ed  as  cast."  Without  further  delay,  the  officer  broke 
away  from  the  southern  fire-eater,  went  to  the  stables,  ordered 
one  of  the  colored  men  to  hitch  up  a  team,  get  the  luggage  at 
the  landing,  and  to  follow  the  company  to  Trappe,  some  five 
miles  distant. 

It  was  Sunday  morning  early  when  we  reached  the  sleepy 
little  town;  few  people  were  astir  at  that  hour,  and  the  Sabbath 
st  llness  was  unbroken  save  for  the  barking  of  dogs  and  the 
crowing  of  cocks.  No  people  were  in  sight,  except  fifteen  or 
twenty  men  collected  around  a  corner  grocery,  and  they  met 
us  with  a  stony  stare,  gazing  with  stoical  indifference  as  we  ad- 
voiced  towards  them.  They  had  no  glad  hand  for  us.  Halt 
ing  his  command,  the  officer  proceeded  to  fire  a  few  questions 
iit  them  as  follows:  "  Can  any  one  of  you  gentlemen  tell  me 

*  In  the  Autobiography  of  General  Wallace,  he  states  that  in  the  month 
of  March,  '64,  accompanied  by  his  staff,  he  called  on  Governor  A.  W.  Brad 
ford  in  Annapolis,  to  ascertain  what  the  latter's  attitude  would  be  toward 
the  sending  of  armed  protection  to  certain  parts  of  Maryland  in  response 
to  earnest  requests  for  the  same  from  Union  people,  especially  in  the  coun 
ties  bordering  on  the  Chesapeake.  In  response  to  the  General's  query,  the 
Governor  said,  "  Mail  all  petitions  of  this  kind  to  me  and  I  will  return  them 
to  you  with  my  official  request  that  you  send  troops  as  prayed.  The  matter 
is  entirely  within  my  province,  and  I  thank  you  for  recognizing  the  fact. 
I  only  want  to  make  sure  that  the  papers  you  forward  to  me  are  in  good 
faith."  The  election,  April  Oth,  was  for  members  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention,  whose  sittings  led  to  the  submission,  in  October,  of  the  pro 
posed  new  constitution  on  which  the  State  voted  as  stated.  The  General 
adds:  "  Upon  petitions,  referred  to  the  Governor,  troops  were  sent  (April 
0)  to  every  doubtful  precinct  in  the  State,  but  always  upon  his  written  re 
quest."  It  is  fair  to  suppose  the  sending  of  the  military  in  October  was 
under  precisely  the  same  order  and  understanding. 


GUAKDING   THE    POLLS.  305 

where  I  can  find  Mr.  —  — ,  supervisor  of  elections?  "  No  one 
replied.  Again  an  effort  is  made:  "  Can  you  tell  me  where 
Mr.  —  -  is  to  be  found?  "  naming  another  Supervisor.  No 
better  luck  this  time  than  before.  Just  to  change  the  subject, 
he  next  inquired  if  any  one  could  direct  him  to  a  vacant  build 
ing  where  he  could  quarter  his  men.  Again  not  a  word  from 
any  one  of  them.  After  all  this  vain  questioning,  the  men  were 
ordered  to  cap  their  pieces,  whereupon  the  citizens  began  to 
sneak  away  in  different  directions,  all  but  one,  who  followed  the 
company  as  it  moved  up  the  street  in  search  of  quarters.  Com 
ing  alongside  the  commander,  he  remarked  that  Union  men 
had  to  be  careful  about  what  they  said  in  the  hearing  of  that 
gang,  that  he  was  a  Union  man  and  would  assist  all  he  could. 

It  was  the  opinion  of  our  new  found  friend  that,  as  there  was 
no  service  in  the  Methodist  Church,  this  Sunday,  the  men 
might  be  quartered  in  the  vestry.  He  went  to  see  the  sexton 
and  to  get  the  key.  It  was  a  great  find,  the  men  enjoying  the 
clean  and  comfortable  quarters,  though  a  little  remote  from 
the  "  Hustings,"  as  the  polling-places  were  called.  Our  morn 
ing's  experience  had  served  to  impress  upon  our  minds  that  we 
were  in  the  enemy's  country,  consequently  it  was  easy  to  keep 
the  men  within  the  guard-lines,  which  were  at  once  established, 
over  which  no  soldier  was  allowed  to  go  nor  citizen  to  enter.  If 
food  or  drink  were  offered  them  they  were  to  decline  with 
thanks;  in  a  word,  "  to  beware  of  the  Greeks,  though  bearing 
gifts."  As  the  commander  had  to  go  in  quest  of  the  nearest  Su 
pervisor  of  Elections,  some  five  miles  away,  the  camp  was  left 
in  charge  of  the  First  Sergeant,  and  right  here  is  where  the 
Union  man  of  the  morning  proved  himself  invaluable,  for  he 
furnished  transportation  and  piloted  the  way. 

Reporting  for  orders  to  a  civilian  wras  a  new  experience  to 
this  somewhat  punctilious  officer,  but  orders  were  orders  with 
him.  He  found  the  Supervisor  to  be  a  sturdy,  resolute  Scotch 
man,  a  strict  constructionist  of  the  law,  who  would  stand  for 
no  evasion  or  violation  of  it,  and  he  seemed  pleased  to  find 
that  he  was  to  be  supported  by  Federal  bayonets.  Having  just 
returned  from  church  and  it  being  about  meal-time,  the  officer 
and  his  guide  were  invited  to  stay  and  share  his  "  frugal  meal," 
an  invitation  that  was  not  declined,  for  the  enforced  fast  of 
twenty-four  hours  was  getting  in  its  work.  No  urging  was  nec 
essary  on  the  part  of  the  host  to  secure  full  justice  to  the  boun 
tiful  spread,  and  meanwhile  the  officer  was  getting  points  as  to 
the  part  he  would  have  to  play  at  the  "  Hustings."  While 
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306    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Talbot  County  would,  probably,  give  a  substantial  majority 
ior  the  constitution,  there  were  many  hot  sympathizers  with 
the  Confederacy,  and  to  avoid  giving  unnecessary  provocation, 
it  was  decided  to  be  best  to  keep  the  men  within  their  quarters, 
ready  to  respond  at  a  moment's  warning,  should  they  be  needed 
to  quell  any  disturbance. 

Returning  to  camp,  we  waited  for  something  to  happen  to 
relieve  the  monotony  of  our  confinement.  In  the  hurried  leav 
ing  of  Baltimore,  no  provision  had  been  made  to  subsist  the 
officer.  To  remain  three  days  in  camp  without  provisions  was 
not  to  be  thought  of;  fortunately,  near  the  camp  an  old  colored 
auntie  held  sway  over  a  small  cabin  which  seemed  to  be  scant 
ily  furnished  with  cooking  utensils  and  quite  barren  of  sup 
plies,  but  this  seemed  the  only  chance,  so  approaching  the  cab 
in,  Auntie  was  asked  if  she  could  cook.  "Yes,  shua;  Fs  a  good 
cook,  I  is.  I  dun  cooked  fo'  quality  fo'ks  in  Baltimo'."  She 
was  engaged  as  chef,  and  she  made  good.  We  were  called  out 
but  once,  and  that  the  last  day  for  voting;  some  turbulent  souls, 
assisted  by  ardent  spirits,  created  a  disturbance  and  a  hurry-up 
call  was  responded  to  by  a  squad  of  men.  The  sight  of  Boys  in 
Blue  coming  towards  them  at  a  double-quick  had  a  sobering 
effect,  and  most  of  the  offenders  silently  stole  away.  But  we 
took  one  prisoner,  marched  him  to  camp,  where  he  was  de 
tained  until  the  session  of  the  court  convened  in  the  vestry 
which  served  as  detention  quarters  and  court-room.  The  trial- 
justice  came  to  court  with  his  law  books  under  his  arm;  after 
due  consultation  of  his  volumes  he  found  the  statute  that  he 
thought  applied  to  the  case  and  then  proceeded  to  try  the  cul 
prit.  After  hearing  the  evidence,  he  ordered  the  fellow  to  keep 
the  peace  and  to  recognize  in  the  sum  of  $50,  a  travesty  on  the 
judiciary  of  the  State  of  Maryland. 

After  the  polls  were  closed  and  the  ballots  counted,  we  were 
relieved  from  further  service  by  the  civil  authorities.  The  re 
straints  of  the  camp  were  relaxed  and  the  men  allowed  to  min 
gle  with  the  villagers  and  to  enjoy  the  hospitality  of  the  loyal 
citizens.  We  had  about  an  entire  day  to  wait  for  the  coming  of 
the  boat  to  the  five  miles  distant  landing,  where  finally  we  were 
taken  on  board  along  with  other  detachments  that  had  been 
performing  like  services  in  other  portions  of  the  Eastern  Shore. 

The  result  of  the  election  was  very  close,  there  being  an  ag 
gregate  vote  of  60,000,  with  the  scant  majority  of  375  for  the 
loyal  or  Union  side.  Like  the  famous  cut  which  did  for  Mercu- 
tio,  though  not  so  deep  as  a  well,  nor  so  wide  as  a  church  door, 


GUARDING  THE  POLLS.  307 

it  served.  Very  likely  any  other  well- officered  regiment  would 
have  done  as  well,  still  men  of  the  Fifth  Massachusetts  are 
entitled  to  the  pleasant  reflection  that  their  presence  in  various 
places  along  the  Eastern  Shore  made  a  difference  of  more  than 
375  votes,  not  to  mention  the  rejection  of  ballots  proffered  by 
those  who  would  nob  take  the  oath  to  the  number  of  nearly  one 
hundred,  and  that  they  really  helped  keep  "  Maryland,  My 
Maryland,"  in  the  straight  and  narrow  way.  Incidentally,  the 
victory,  though  close,  had  its  influence  in  the  following  No 
vember,  when  Lincoln  was  re-elected. 

The  experience  of  other  detachments  did  not  differ  essen 
tially  from  that  already  given,  but  mention  should  be  made 
of  Company  G's  representation,  some  thirty  in  number,  that, 
under  Captain  Converse  and  Lieutenant  Fuller,  in  heavy 
marching  orders,  with  four  days'  rations  of  hardtack,  salt  pork 
and  coffee,  embarked  at  Fort  McHenry's  wharf  on  a  small 
steamer  bound  for  Greensboro,  also  on  the  Eastern  Shore.  En 
tering  the  Choptank  River,  at  half  tide,  the  steamer  had  not 
gone  far  before  grounding  on  a  sandbar,  where  boat  and  burden 
had  to  remain  until  the  next  tide.  Cooking  facilities  on  ship 
board  were  not  first  class,  consisting  of  one  small  sheet-iron 
stove,  so  that  raw-pork  sandwiches  became  virtues  of  neces 
sity,  though  not  to  any  one's  liking.  Arriving  at  Potter's  Land 
ing,  the  head  of  navigation,  Lieutenant  Fuller  with  ten  men 
marched  in  one  direction,  while  Captain  Converse  with  the 
remainder  set  forth  for  Greensboro,  ten  miles  away,  where,  on 
arrival,  we  were  assigned  quarters  in  the  village  church. 
Though  tired  and  dirty,  immediately  after  guard  mounting, 
the  two  sheet-iron  stoves,  by  which  the  edifice  was  heated, 
were  utilized,  and  a  more  palatable  manner  of  serving  our  ra 
tions  than  that  of  the  steamboat  was  possible. 

The  next  day,  the  llth,  being  that  before  the  election,  after 
a  good  night's  sleep,  using  the  pews  of  the  church  for  bunks, 
the  men  not  on  guard  were  permitted  to  ramble  around  the 
town  and  to  learn  the  ways  thereof;  some  of  them,  such  as  the 
disposal  of  apple-jack  and  peach  brandy,  proved  to  be  quite  too 


308    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

strenuous  for  new  beginners.  As  the  day  wore  on,  considerable 
loud  talk  was  generated,  but  nothing  serious  occurred.  Elec 
tion  morning  the  command  was  formed  in  light  marching 
order,  rifles  were  loaded,  cartridge-boxes  were  filled  and  the 
men  marched  to  the  polling-place,  in  this  instance  the  public 


GENERAL  LEW    WALLACE   IN  WAR  TIMES 

tavern,  around  which  guards  were  posted  and  a  double  line  was 
drawn  up  to  a  window,  within  which  sat  Captain  Converse  with 
the  election  supervisors.  Through  this  line  of  soldiers,  the 
voters,  one  by  one,  passed  to  the  window  and  deposited  their 
ballots.  Comments  on  this  manner  of  voting  were  numerous, 
often  profane,  and  seldom  complimentary  to  the  soldiers  or  the 
U.  S.  Government.  At  the  same  time  the  peaceably  inclined 
were  much  pleased  with  the  result,  and  with  only  two  or 


GUARDING  THE  POLLS.  309 

three  disturbances  the  election  passed  off  quietly.  After  the 
supervision  was  over,  in  light  order,  our  baggage  being  drawn 
to  the  dock  by  a  mule,  we  made  the  return  trip  in  two  hours 
and  a  half,  making  the  acquaintance,  on  the  way,  of  the 
persimmon,  a  fruit  the  finest  in  the  world  when  ripened  by 
frost,  but  otherwise  of  puckering  tendencies  so  strong  that  the 
men  were  hardly  able  to  get  their  mouths  in  shape  to  appreci 
ate  the  possibilities  of  a  field  of  sweet  potatoes  found  near  the 
landing.  Lieutenant  Fuller  and  his  party  were  late,  not  get 
ting  in  until  near  midnight,  but  the  time  was  passed  in  roasting 
potatoes,  gathering  and  cooking  oysters,  which  abounded  on 
the  shore,  and  in  watching  the  heel-and-toe  performances  of 
certain  pickaninnies  who  danced  to  the  music  of  an  aged 
darkey,  the  darkness  partially  dispelled  by  a  bonfire  kindled 
from  peach-crates,  the  property  of  a  rebel  sympathizer.  Owing 
to  the  crookedness  of  the  river,  the  boat  did  not  start  on  the 
return  trip  until  morning. 

A  detachment  from  Company  D  sailed  up  the  Pokomoke 
River  to  Snow  Hill,  Worcester  County.  Of  the  river,  a  writer 
comments:  "  It  is  like  a  succession  of  letter  S's.  You  sail  an 
hour  up  one  side,  then  turn  and  sail  back  again,  and  all  the  real 
advance  made  in  the  whole  interval  is  about  200  feet.  So  we 
zigzagged  all  the  way  to  the  head  of  navigation.  Seemingly 
we  could  have  jumped  ashore  anywhere,  yet  had  we  done  so  we 
should  have  been  lost,  inevitably,  in  the  tall  eel-grass."  At 
Snow  Hill  the  detachment  was  subdivided  into  smaller  groups 
and  sent  out  to  several  places,  one  of  them  going  to  "  Nut 
ter's,"  that  being  the  name  of  the  polling-place.  "  Mr.  Nutter 
himself  was  a  Union  man,  but  we  were  not  allowed  to  converse 
with  the  voters  nor  to  take  anything  from  them;  they  came 
mostly  on  horseback,  with  a  rifle,  carbine  or  shotgun  slung 
over  the  shoulder.  They  were  dressed  largely  in  butternut 
homespun,  wore  long  hair  and  whiskers,  and  as  a  whole  were 
as  unkempt  a  lot  of  voters  as  were  ever  seen.  Our  own  weapons, 
loaded  and  capped,  were  stacked,  ourselves  standing  at  atten 
tion  behind  the  stacks.  There  was  no  enthusiasm  in  the  voting, 


310    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

but  determination  was  noticeable.  The  men  slept  in  Nutter's 
barn,  and  his  servants  brought  us  baked  sweet  potatoes,  hot 
coffee,  johnny-cake  and  other  items  in  plenty,  besides  con 
gratulating  us  on  our  behavior  and  good  looks.  Many  of  the 
voters  dressed  and  looked  like  rebels,  which  they  unquestion 
ably  were,  and  it  was  said  that  they  would  shoot  on  very  little 
provocation.  They  came  sullenly,  voted  gravely,  and  then 
silently  stole  from  our  sight. 

'  The  voting  ended,  then  came  the  return,  a  fifteen  miles' 
march  in  the  night,  the  first  five  miles  of  which  were  passed 
over  with  the  utmost  speed,  so  anxious  were  we  to  meet  another 
squad  also  on  its  return,  so  that  we  might  compare  notes  and 
talk  over  the  situation.  Perhaps  it  should  not  be  mentioned, 
but  there  were  those  whose  steps  were  rendered  very  unsteady 
by  potations  of  genuine  apple-jack;  when  the  effects  of  the 
latter  had  worn  off,  the  regular  route  step  was  resumed  and  the 
men  strode  on  through  the  darkness.  Daylight  brought  new 
possibilities,  for  as  we  were  marching  back,  I  using  my  gun  as 
a  crutch,  because  of  a  blistered  foot,  there  being  no  tompion  in 
my  weapon,  I  discovered  in  easy  range  a  native  razor-back 
hog.  In  an  instant  I  had  capped  my  gun,  taken  aim  and  fired. 
I  spun  around  like  a  top  as  the  gun  went  off,  the  latter  kicking 
violently  on  account  of  the  five  inches  of  sand  that  had  been 
forced  down  the  muzzle  as  I  had  limped  along.  The  split  in  the 
barrel  was  seven  inches  long,  the  pig  escaped  with  whole  skin, 
and  I  had  a  lame  right  shoulder  for  the  remainder  of  my  ser 
vice.  I  carried  the  ruined  weapon  aboard  the  boat  and  if  I  only 
could  meet  the  man  whose  good  gun  stood  behind  the  water 
cask,  I  would  apologize  for  the  exchange  that  I  made.  Similar 
incidents  might  be  related  of  those  who  went  to  Berlin,  Big  and 
Little  Bog,  and  still  other  places,  where  all  accomplished  the 
work  set  for  them  to  do." 

We  may  read  in  the  Official  Records  of  the  Rebellion  (Series 
I,  Vol.  XLIII,  Part  2,  p.  430)  that  on  the  17th  day  of  October, 
three  companies  (B,  C  and  H)  reported  for  duty  to  the  First 
Separate  Brigade,  General  E.  B.  Tyler,  and  were  stationed 


GUARDING  THE  POLLS.  311 

at  Monocacy  Junction.  "  Though  fully  armed  and  equipped, 
they  have  very  little  ammunition,  no  shelter-tents,  cooking 
utensils,  company-books  nor  records.  The  men  are  exposed 
to  all  of  the  inclemencies  of  the  weather,  and  it  is  almost  impos 
sible  for  the  officers  to  make  correct  reports  of  the  numerical 
strength  of  their  companies.  They  have  since  been  supplied 
with  ammunition  and  will  be  supplied  with  tents  as  soon  as 
possible."  At  Monocacy  the  9th  of  July  preceding  had  been 
fought  an  important  battle  between  the  forces  of  Jubal  Early, 
commanding  the  rebels,  and  those  of  General  Lew  Wallace, 
and  though  nominally  a  Union  defeat,  it  really  saved  the  city 
of  Washington  from  capture.  Almost  from  the  beginning  of 
the  war,  the  locality  had  been  debatable  ground,  and  it  had 
been  marched  over  and  camped  upon,  alternately,  by  the 
opposing  armies  till  desolation  was  a  prominent  feature  of 
the  landscape.  Just  three  miles  northwest  was  the  famed 
Frederick  City,  the  home  of  Barbara  Frietchie,  and  the  scene 
of  Whittier's  noted  poem.  "  The  clustered  spires  of  Fred 
erick  stand  "  in  plain  view  from  the  camp  of  the  companies 
of  the  Fifth  on  this  brief  tour  of  duty,  and  between  the  Junc 
tion  and  Frederick  is  the  grave  of  Francis  Scott  Key,  who 
wrote  the  "  Star  Spangled  Banner."  Unfortunately  no  sur 
vivor  of  this  part  of  the  work  of  the  regiment  has  furnished 
data  for  consideration,  so  it  must  be  stated  in  general  terms 
that  the  men  did  guard  duty  and  helped  to  render  this  part 
of  the  State  safer  for  Union  people  and  less  desirable  for 
their  enemies.  The  order  relieving  the  three  companies  from 
duty  and  their  return  to  Baltimore  bears  date,  November  1,  at 
which  time  all  of  the  separated  parts  of  the  Fifth  were  coming 
together  for  the  journey  homeward. 

October  19th  is  memorable  as  the  day  on  which  Sheridan 
annihilated  the  army  of  Jubal  Early  at  Cedar  Creek,  and  a  few 
days  later  wounded  men  from  that  scene  of  carnage,  along  with 
hundreds  of  prisoners,  began  to  appear  in  Baltimore,  thus  call 
ing  into  service  the  energies  of  the  Fifth  as  prisoners  were  es 
corted  to  Point  Lookout  and  other  places,  and  in  assisting  the 


312    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Medical  Department  in  its  care  of  the  helpless  from  the  fight. 
On  the  26th,  members  of  the  Woburn  company  were  pleased  at 
receiving  visits  from  A.  Ellis  and  Horace  Tidd,  directly  from 
home,  besides  Lieut.  Charles  K.  Conn,  Company  K,  39th  Mas 
sachusetts,  who,  as  a  wounded  and  paroled  prisoner,  came  into 
the  camp.  As  early  as  October  27th,  in  a  letter  to  Assistant 
Adjutant-general  E.  D.  Townsend,  General  Lew  Wallace  calls 
attention  to  the  approaching  end  of  the  term  for  which  the 
Fifth  had  enlisted  and  the  necessity  of  supplying  troops  for 
their  places,  asking  if  they  shall  be  retained  until  other  regi 
ments  can  be  found.  "  Shall  I  keep  them  over  time?  "  is  the 
query  that  he  propounds.  Fortunately  others  were  secured  in 
time  to  allow  the  Massachusetts  men  to  depart  in  season  for 
their  promised  muster-out.  Orders  dated  November  1st  and 
4th  are  found  calling  for  the  assembling  of  the  regiment,  which 
was  accomplished  so  that  it  was  ready  for  departure  Saturday, 
the  5th  of  November.  From  the  separation  of  the  companies 
in  August  at  Fort  McHenry  until  the  reassembling  at  Federal 
Hill,  there  had  been  no  time  when  a  regimental  dress-parade 
was  possible,  a  condition  quite  destructive  of  real  esprit  de  corps. 

HOMEWARD  BOUND. 

Though  not  so  long  away  from  home  as  were  the  three  years' 
men,  yet  no  true  lover  of  native  place  and  residence  ever  found 
himself  home-returning  without  feelings  of  exaltation,  so  when 
the  separated  companies  had  met  once  more  and  they  were 
ready  to  turn  their  backs  on  Baltimore,  they  were  smiling  faces 
that  looked  towards  the  Philadelphia  station.  It  was  evening 
when  the  right  wing,  with  Colonel  and  staff,  embarked  and 
rolled  away  northward;  the  left  wing  with  Lieutenant-colonel 
Worcester  following  one  hour  later.  Had  the  trains  possessed 
the  right  of  way,  as  would  have  been  the  case  had  the  regi 
ment,  in  an  emergency,  been  headed  the  other  direction,  the 
ride  to  New  York  would  have  been  a  matter  of  only  a  few 
hours;  as  it  was,  it  lasted  more  than  twenty-four.  To  be  sure, 


HOMEWARD  BOUND.  313 

the  cars  were  not  originally  intended  for  passengers,  being 
freight-cars,  seated,  and  the  trip  was  uneventful  until  reach 
ing  Havre-de-Grace,  where  the  train  was  side-tracked  until 
after  midnight.  The  weather  was  cold,  the  cars  not  heated, 
hence  to  keep  warm,  men  had  to  resort  to  self-devised  ways, 
the  principal  one  being  the  building  of  bonfires,  using  for 
fuel  fence-rails  and  cornstalks.  At  the  same  time  there  was  a 
growing  hunger,  as  there  were  scant  rations  for  a  protracted 
ride. 

Morning,  however,  revealed  Philadelphia,  and  again  the  hos 
pitalities  of  the  Volunteer  Refreshment  Saloon  were  tried,  and 
wonderfully  satisfactory  they  proved.  Intervening  years  have 
not  erased  the  impression  of  sufficiency  that  the  food  served 
there  made  on  hungry  men.  Some  of  the  eaters  contrasted 
their  last  meal  at  Federal  Hill,  consisting  chiefly  of  hardtack 
and  half-baked  beans,  with  the  abundance  of  perfectly  cooked 
and  served  viands  offered  by  the  generous  Philadelphians. 
Sunday  was  absorbed  in  slowly  starting,  bumping  and  stopping 
through  the  entire  length  of  New  Jersey,  the  right  wing  reach 
ing  Jersey  City  at  8  o'clock  in  the  evening.  Then  there  was  a 
long  wait  of  three  hours  for  the  left  wing  and  the  officers'  horses 
to  arrive.  The  terminal  point  appeared  to  be  in  the  Tender 
loin  district  of  the  city,  a  fact  that  did  not  add  to  the  dis 
cipline  and  morale  of  the  men.  Never  again  would  those  in 
charge,  had  they  the  opportunity,  halt  a  regiment  near  the 
parts  where  red  lights  glow. 

Crossing  over  to  New  York,  the  hour  was  too  late  for  water- 
transit  homeward,  even  if  such  had  been  projected,  hence  there 
was  nothing  left  except  to  march  up  Broadway  to  the  27th 
Street  Station.  Nor  was  it  a  scene  of  delight,  since  the  matter 
of  military  draft  was  quite  too  vivid  in  the  minds  of  the  people 
who  crowded  the  streets  and  who,  evidently,  thought  the  regi 
ment  one  arriving  to  assist  in  directing  further  demands  for 
service.  The  tune  played  by  bands,  had  there  been  any,  would 
not  have  been,  "  See  the  Conquering  Hero  Comes,"  quite  the 
reverse  of  the  reception  accorded  the  Fifth  when  in  April,  '61, 


314    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

it  marched  through  the  city  on  its  way  southward.  "  It  was 
apparent  by  the  jeers  and  epithets  hurled  at  us  that  the  draft 
was  unpopular,  hence  our  progress  was  not  accompanied  by 
a  continuous  ovation." 

It  was  nearly  midnight  when  the  depot  was  reached,  where 
it  was  learned  that  no  transportation  had  been  provided,  and 
there  was  nothing  to  do  but  wait  until  morning.  Such  officers 
and  men  as  had  money  found  lodgment  in  nearby  hotels  and 
boarding-houses,  while  impecunious  ones  had  the  privileges  of 
the  floor,  seats  or  sidewalk  or,  last  of  all,  the  ground.  Rations, 
it  will  be  seen,  were  irregular,  and  a  breakfastless  start  did  not 
serve  to  make  the  noontime  hunger  in  New  Haven  any  less; 
and  if  some  of  the  regiment  did  take  and  eat  without,  in  every 
case,  rendering  a  strict  account,  perhaps  the  exigency  may  be  a 
partial  excuse.  Those  who  had  a  part  in  the  banquet  claim 
that  very  little  that  was  edible  was  left  in  the  restaurant.  True 
to  the  halting  manner  characteristic  of  the  entire  journey  home 
ward,  Boston  was  not  reached  until  nearly  midnight  of  Monday, 
but  late  as  it  was,  representatives  of  Charlestown  were  in  wait 
ing  to  receive  the  men  belonging  there  and  to  escort  them 
across  the  river  to  City  Hall.  The  march  was  under  the  direc 
tion  of  Chief  Marshal  John  B.Norton,  with  the  sweet  strains  of 
a  brass  band  to  let  the  people  know  that  the  "  boys  "  were 
home  again. 

Citizens  were  out  in  force,  all  ready  to  see  and  hear  their 
friends  just  from  Baltimore,  and  to  assist  in  serving  the  bounti 
ful  collation,  at  the  Prescott  House,  whether  a  late  supper  or 
an  early  breakfast  has  never  been  determined.  His  Honor 
Mayor  P.  J.  Stone  was  there  and  made  a  warm  welcoming 
speech,  and  then,  at  2  o'clock  a.m.,  the  soldiers  wended  their 
way  homeward  for  just  a  few  winks  of  sleep,  before  going  to  the 
polls  to  help  elect  Abraham  Lincoln  for  his  second  term.  There 
was  still  another  assembling  of  the  regiment  necessary  for  the 
muster-out,  the  same  coming  on  the  16th  of  November.  Nor 
was  this  final  meeting  unaccompanied  with  certain  disagree 
able  features.  On  account  of  real  or  fancied  wrongs,  some  of 


RETURN  OF  THE  FLAGS.  315 

the  enlisted  men  took  it  upon  themselves,  in  the  absence  of  the 
commissioned  officers,  who  were  riding  in  a  car  by  themselves, 
to  seriously  mar  and  deface  the  cars,  to  the  extent  that  they 
resembled  a  cyclone  wrecked  settlement  when  Readville  was 
reached.  Under  the  significant  title,  "  Vandalism,"  the  public 
press  of  the  day  discussed  the  matter  at  length,  and  it  is  said 
that  the  railroad  authorities  promptly  placed  an  injunction  on 
the  pay  the  men  were  to  receive,  so  that  a  final  settlement  was 
not  effected  till  some  weeks  later,  in  the  meantime  the  commis 
sioned  officers  having  settled  the  bills  for  damage. 

Thus  ended  the  third  and  final  term  of  War-of-the-Rebellion 
service  of  the  Fifth  Regiment.  Though  not  called  upon  to  face 
the  enemy  on  the  field  of  battle,  it  had,  nevertheless,  done  with 
credit  to  itself  whatever  duty  had  been  presented,  and  had  sen 
sibly  added  to  the  already  interesting  history  of  one  of  the  old 
est  militia  organizations  in  the  Commonwealth.  Several  of  the 
officers  and  men  were  to  continue  their  connection  with  the  reg 
iment  on  its  peace  footing  and  to  attain  enviable  prominence 
therein.  The  story  of  the  services  of  the  regiment  in  its  three 
tours  of  active  duty  is  presented  as  a  portion  of  the  proof,  if 
any  were  needed,  of  the  value  of  the  militia  as  a  weapon  for 
the  public  defense. 

RETURN  OF  THE  FLAGS. 

Once  more  another  gathering  of  a  portion  of  the  regiment 
came  when  the  numerous  organizations  of  Massachusetts 
assembled  in  Boston  to  turn  over  the  flags  borne  by  them  to  the 
permanent  keeping  of  the  Commonwealth.  The  day  was  De 
cember  22d,  Forefathers'  Day,  and  never  before  nor  since  have 
so  many  military  bodies  been  formally  represented  at  the  State 
House.  Major  General  Darius  N.  Couch  was  in  command, 
with  General  E.  W.  Hinks  as  Chief  of  Staff.  The  parade  was 
imposing  and  the  speeches  eloquent.  Three  hundred  men  of 
the  Fifth  Regiment,  led  by  Colonel  Peirson,  are  reported  to 
have  been  in  line,  a  number  at  least  one  half  larger  than  that 


316    P'IFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

presented  by  any  other  organization.  The  two  flags  borne  by 
the  regiment  were  received  by  Governor  Andrew  and  by  him 
were  turned  over  to  the  custody  of  the  State.  At  first  grouped 
with  the  many  other  stands  of  colors,  they  looked  out  on  Doric 
Hall,  but  in  the  changes  incident  to  the  extension  of  the  State 
House,  they  have  found  final  harborage  in  the  Hall  of  Flags, 
'and  there  let  us  hope  they  may  continue  to  be  viewed  and 
revered  by  generations  yet  to  come. 

VETERAN  ORGANIZATION. 

That  the  old  times  might  be  kept  vividly  in  mind,  and  that 
the  old  battles  might  be  renewed,  at  least  once  a  year,  the  sur 
vivors  of  the  Fifth  early  effected  an  organization  and  annually 
come  together  at  some  point  more  or  less  convenient  to  those 
who  attend.  Naturally  these  meetings  have  been  held  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  Commonwealth.  That  of  1909,  when  the 
preparation  of  this  history  was  settled  upon,  was  held  in  Ash 
land,  the  next  in  Reading,  and  that  of  1911,  marking  fifty 
years  after  the  beginning  of  the  strife,  is  to  be  observed  in  Ha- 
verhill,  whose  Hale  Guards  was  Company  D  in  the  three  months' 
service.  These  reunions  have  ever  been  scenes  of  the  utmost 
good  fellowship,  and  while  all  of  them  have  been  filled  to  the 
brim  with  bright  discussions  and  pleasant  memories,  perhaps 
no  one  had  happier  features  than  that  which,  in  honor  of  the 
Cape  Cod  members  of  the  regiment,  gathered  at  "  The  Nobs- 
cussett,"  Dennis,  June  24,  1896.  It  was  the  thirty-fifth  re 
union,  and  nothing  that  the  Cape  people  could  do  was  too 
good  for  the  "  boys,"  not  so  old  then  as  they  are  now.  The 
route  was  from  Boston  to  Yarmouth,  seventy-five  miles  by 
rail,  thence  a  free  barge  ride  to  the  hotel.  Of  course  every  one 
had  to  remain  over  night,  but  with  such  elaborate  camping 
facilities  and  with  an  unexcelled  commissary,  the  veterans 
recked  not  of  time  nor  place,  and  when  the  time  of  separation 
came  they  marveled  not  at  the  affection  that  the  native  of  the 
Cape  ever  cherishes  for  the  place  of  his  birth. 


REGIMENTAL  ROSTER.  317 

REGIMENTAL  ROSTER. 

Three   Months'    Service. 

Xo  matter  what  the  record  of  the  regiment,  for  some  of  its 
members  the  Roster  will  ever  hold  the  first  place,  for  here 
they  find,  in  alphabetical  array,  the  names  of  their  comrades 
with  whom  they  once  stood  side  by  side.  The  brief  history  ac 
corded  each  individual  assures  him  a  place  on  the  scroll  of 
fame  and  he  knows  that  oblivion  can  never  hide  him,  nor  the 
story  of  the  effort  he  made  to  preserve  the  Union  and  to  free 
the  flag  of  its  deepest  stain — slavery.  The  prime  source  of 
data  presented  in  the  several  rosters  of  the  Fifth  Regiment 
is  the  revised  rolls,  carefully  preserved  at  the  State  House, 
along  with  the  published  Record  of  the  Massachusetts  Volun 
teers,  prepared  by  Adjutant  General  William  Schouler.  Ad 
ditional  facts  as  to  civil  life  and  occupations  have  come  from 
su r viving  comrades. 

To  save  time  and  space,  abbreviations  are  used  as  follows: 

A.  A.  (i.— Assistant  Adjutant  General;  b.=born ;  bur.= 
buried:  bvt.— -brevet ;  batt.=battalion ;  Capt.=Captain ;  Co.= 
Company;  Col.=Colonel ;  com.=commission  or  committee; 
Corp.— Corporal ;  d.=died  or  dead;  D.  of  C.=date  of  corn- 
mission;  des.— deserted ;  dis.=discharged ;  disa.=disability  ; 
en.=enlisted;  ex.  of  s.=expiration  of  service;  F.  &  S.=Field 
and  Staff;  G.  O.=0eneral  Order;  II.  Arty.=Heavy  Artil 
lery;  Infty.=Infantry  ;  k.=killed;  lat.  add.=latest  address  ; 
Lt.  or  Lieut.  —Lieutenant;  M.— married ;  M.  I.=mustered  in; 
M.  O.=mustered  out;  mos.=months ;  mus.=rnusician ;  M.  V. 
M.=Mass.  Vol.  Militia;  X.  F.  R.=no  further  record;  X.  G.= 
National  Guard:  O.  W.  D.=0rder,  War  Department;  prom.= 
promoted;  prin.  mus.=principal  musician;  rep.=reported ; 
res.=resigned ;  re-en.=re-enlisted;  S.  S.=sharpshooter ;  Sergt 
^sergeant:  trans.=transf erred;  S.  II.=Soldiers'  Home;  V. 
K-  C.=Veteran  Reserve  Corps;  wd.— wounded ;  W.  D.=War 
Department ;  S.^single. 

In  giving  facts  concerning  each  name,  the  same  order  ob 
tains  throughout  the  roster;  the  family  name  of  the  soldier 
comes  first,  followed  by  his  Christian  appellation;  in  a  few 


318       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


t*'-^v|         '^% 


GENERAL  SAMUEL  C.  LAWRENCE, 
IN  LATER  LIFE. 


FIELD  AND  STAFF.  319 

instances,  place  and  time  of  birth  are  given,  but,  as  a  rule, 
age,  whether  married  or  single,  occupation,  when  enlisted 
and  residence  follow  in  order ;  incidents  in  the  army  life  of 
the  soldier  come  next,  continuing  with  date  of  leaving  the 
service  for  any  reason,  and  concluding  with  data  as  to  life 
subsequent  to  discharge.  In  the  three-months'  service,  as  the 
several  companies,  unless  otherwise  stated,  were  all  mustered 
in  on  the  same  days,  the  fact  is  not  restated  in  the  list.  In 
the  three-months'  service,  whether  married  or  single  is  seldom 
given.  The  application  of  the  system  is  seen  in  the  following 
illustrations : 
Armstrong,  James,  28,  Salem;  dis.  June  8,  '61,  disa. ;  later 

Corp.,  Co.  B,  17th  Mass.;  d.  June  2,  1909,  Salem. 
Printed  in  full  the  above  record  would  read : 
Armstrong,  James,  at  the  age  of  28  years,  enlisted  from  Sa 
lem  ;  was  enlisted  and  mustered  in  with  his  company  and 
discharged  for  disability;  that  he  later  enlisted  as  a  cor 
poral  in  Company  B,  of  the  17th  Regiment  of  Mass.,  and 
died  June  2,  1909,  in  Salem. 

FIELD  AND  STAFF. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  officers  and  men  were  mustered  into 
the  United  States  service  May  1,  1861,  and  mustered  out  July  31, 
1861.) 

*Served  in  the   9   months'   term.        t Served   in  the  100   days'   term.. 

COLONEL. 

Samuel  Crocker  Lawrence,  28 ;  Medford ;  D.  of  C.,  July 
23,  1860;  wd.  Bull  Bun  July  21,  '61;  commissioned  Briga 
dier  General,  M.  V.  M.,  June  10,  '62,  by  Gov.  John  A. 
Andrew;  resigned  Aug.  20,  '64;  in  1869  elected  to  the 
command  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery; 
though  prominent  in  the  councils  of  state  and  national 
politics,  he  steadfastly  declined  all  official  positions,  ex- 
cept  that  of  Presidential  Elector  in  1876,  and  the  merited 
honor  of  being  the  first  Mayor  of  Medford ;  he  has  served 
with  honor  and  distinction  as  director  in  financial  and 
charitable  institutions,  also  in  various  railroad  cor 
porations,  notably  in  the  Eastern,  Maine  Central 
and  Boston  &  Maine;  he  has  long  taken  great 


320       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

interest  in  Free  Masonry,  in  whose  ranks  he  has 
held  the  highest  offices,  being:  for  many  years  one 
of  the  most  active  in  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  Scot 
tish  Rite  and  for  fourteen  years  was  the  Deputy  for 
Massachusetts;  largely  through  his  agency  a  charitable 
fund  has  been  established  in  every  body  with  which  he 
has  been  connected ;  three  times  he  was  elected  Grand 
Master  of  the  Masonic  Order  in  Massachusetts,  and  his 
efforts  contributed  largely  to  the  final  payment  of  the 
debt  on  the  Masonic  Temple  in  Boston ;  his  library  bear 
ing  on  Masonic  topics  is  one  of  the  most  extensive  in  the 
country ;  perhaps  one  of  the  greatest  honors  of  his  en 
tire  life  is  the  fact  that  the  Grand  Army  Post  of  Med- 
ford  bears  his  name,  since  prophets  are  not  always  hon 
ored  in  their  own  city.  Of  English  lineage,  traced  from 
Robert  Lawrence,  Lancashire,  who  was  knighted  by 
Richard  ("our  de  Lion,  1191,  in  the  Crusades  as  "Sir 
Robert  of  Ashton  Hall,"  his  descendant  in  the  twenty- 
fourth  generation,  our  Colonel,  was  born  in  Medford, 
Nov.  22,  1832,  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Crocker) 
Lawrence.  His  preparatory  work  being  done  in  Med 
ford,  he  was  graduated  with  honors  from  Harvard  Uni 
versity  in  1855.  The  same  year  entering  the  militia, 
his  progress  was  steadily  upward,  reaching  a  colonelcy, 
as  above.  Before  the  war  he  Avas  offered  a  commission 
in  the  regular  army,  which  he  declined. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 

fames  Durell  Greene,  Cambridge;  D.  of  C.,  July  23, 
I860;  dis.  June  26,  '61,  for  commission  as  Lieut. -colonel, 
17th  TJ.  S.  Infantry;  D.  of  C.,  May  14,  '61; 
commanded  regiment  at  Fort  Preble,  Portland,  Me., 
until  June,  '63 ;  joined  Army  of  the  Potomac  and  was 
engaged  at  Gettysburg;  Colonel,  6th  U.  S.  Infantry,  Sept. 
20,  '63;  commanding  regiment,  Charleston  Harbor,  S.  C. ; 
bvt.  Brig.  General  U.  S.  Army,  March  13,  '65;  resigned 
June  25,  '67.  Subsequent  to  his  resignation.  Colonel 
Greene  visited  Europe  and,  when  in  England,  was  strick 
en  with  paralysis,  from  whose  effects  he  never  fully  re 
covered.  Never  marrying,  his  later  years  were  spent 
in  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  where  he  died  March  21,  1902, 


FIELD  AND  STAFF.  321 

his  body  receiving-  burial  in  the  family  lot,  Mt,  Auburn 
(Cambridge)  Cemetery.  He  was  born  in  Lynn  .May  12, 
1828,  and  was  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1849.  with  a 
strong-  bent  for  military  affairs,  so  that  he  early  joined 
the  Cambridge  City  Guards,  to  whose  captaincy  he  was 
soon  advanced.  Before  the  war,  he  was  in  command 
of  the  4th  Regiment,  M.  V.  M.  His  own  preferences 
would  have  taken  him  to  West  Point  rather  than  Har 
vard,  but  his  mother  objected  on  account  of  her  brother 
having  died  while  a  cadet  at  the  Military  Academy. 
Having  invented  a  breech-loading  gun,  he  was  engaged  in 
filling  a  10,000  stand  of  arms  order  for  the  Prussian  Gov 
ernment  when  the  war  began. 

*t  George  H.  Pierson,  promoted  from  Captain,  Co.  A,  July  5, 
'61 ;  M.  0.  with  regiment ;  vide  nine  months,  and  100 
days'  service. 

MAJORS. 

Hamlin  Wales  Keyes,  b.  Connecticut;  28,  Boston;  D.  of  C., 
Aug.  27,  I860:  dis.  June  25,  '61,'  for  Com.  as  Captain, 
14th  U.  S.  Infantry;  D.  of  C.,  May  14,  '61;  bvt.  Major, 
May  5,  '64.  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  at  the 
Wilderness;  d.  June  18,  '64,  from  wounds  rec'd  May  12, 
Spottsylvania. 

*John  T.  Boyd,  prom,  from  Captain,  Co.  K,  July  5,  '61 ; 
M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  nine  months  service. 

ADJUTANTS. 

Thomas  Oliver  Barri,  b.  Connecticut;  35,  Cambridge;  D.  of 
C.,  June  5,  1856;  dis.  July  8,  '61,  for  Com.  as  Captain, 
llth  U,  S.  Infantry;  D.  of  C.,  May  14,  '61:  k.  Gettysburg, 
July  2,  '63 ;  bvt.  Major  for  gallant  and  meritorious  con 
duct  at  Gettysburg. 

John  G.  Chambers,  appointed  Adjutant,  July  8,  '61,  from 
1st  Lieut.,  Co.  E ;  M.  0.  with  regiment ;  First  Lieut.,  23d 
Mass.  Infty.,  Oct.  5,  '61;  Major,  Mar.  15,  '62;  Lieut. -col., 
Nov.  26,  '62  ;  d.  July  13,  '64,  from  wds.  rec'd  at  Drewry 's 
Bluff,  Va. ;  General  Lawrence  said  of  him,  "He  was  a 
born  soldier,  and  those  details  of  the  military  art  which 
many  learn  only  by  painful  application  seemed  to  come 
to  him  by  inspiration." 
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322       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

QUARTERMASTER. 

Joseph  E.  Billings,,  40.  Boston;  1).  of  C,  Aug.  15,  '60;  M.  O. 
with  regiment, 

SURGEON. 

Samuel  H.  Hurd,  30,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  Aug.  13,  '61;  M. 
O.  with  regiment. 

ASSISTANT  SURGEONS. 

Henry  H.  Mitchell,  22,  East  Bridgewater ;  detached,  July  1, 
'61,  to  llth  N.  Y.  Infty.  (Col.  Elmer  Ellsworth's  Fire 
Zouaves)  ;  M.  O.,  July  31,  '61;  1st  Lieut,  Assistant  Sur 
geon,  39th  Mass.,  Aug.  25,  '62;  dis.,  Nov.  1,  '63,  for  prom, 
as  Major,  Surgeon  36th  T.  S.  Colored  Infty. ;  res.  July 
15,  '64. 

William  W.  Keene,  24,  Philadelphia;  appointed  July  1,  '61; 
M.  I.  July  11,  '61;  M.  O.  with  regiment. 

CHAPLAIN. 

Benj.  F.  DeCosta.  29,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  April  17.  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment ;  Chaplain,  18th  Mass.  Infty.,  Dec. 
6,  '61 ;  res.  disa.,  Aug.  4,  '62. 

PAYMASTER. 

George  F.  Hodges,  24,  Roxlmry ;  D.  of  C.,  May  8,  '61;  M.  0. 
with  regiment;  First  Lieut,  and  Adjutant,  18th  Mass. 
Infty,  Aug.  20,  '61;  d.  Hall's  Hill,  Va,  Jan.  31,  '62,  of 
disease  (typhoid  fever)  contracted  in  the  service  ;  b.  Jan. 
12,  1837,  Providence,  R.  I.;  Harvard  College,  1855; 
Harvard  Law  School,  1860;  en.  private,  Co.  K,  April  20, 
1861 ;  detailed  af  regimental  headquarters  until  com 
missioned. 

SERGEANT-MAJOR. 

Henry  A.  Quincy,  44,  Charlestown;  M.  0.  with  regiment. 


COMPANY  A.  323 

QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT. 

Samuel  C.  Hunt,  appointed  from  Co.  K,  June  28,  '61 :  M.  0. 
Aug.  1,  '61;  vide  letter  W.  D.  Nov.  16,  '95. 

HOSPITAL-STEWARD. 

Nathan  D.  Parker,  29,  Reading;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  later 
Hospital-steward,  9th  Mass.  Infty.;  M.  O.  disa.  Dec.  13, 
'62. 

DRUM-MAJOR. 

Charles  Foster,  34,  Charlestown;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  en. 
Feb.  4,  '64,  from  Waltham  as  Mus.,  Co.  E,  59th  Mass. 
Infty.,  becoming  Principal  Mus.  (F.  &  S.),  March  4, 
'65 ;  trans,  with  same  rank,  June  1,  '65,  to  57th  Mass. ; 
M.  0.  July  30,  '65,  ex.  of  s. ;  d.  Charlestown. 

FIFE-MAJOR. 

Freeman  Field,  44,  Charlestown;  M.  0.  with  regiment; 
enlisted  as  Principal  Musician,  32d  Mass.  Infty.,  Dec.  1, 
'61;  dis.  Oct.  6,  '62,  0.  W.  D. ;  enlisted  as  Principal 
Musician,  April  22,  '63,  Co.  C,  1st  Battalion  Heavy 
Arty. ;  M.  0.  Oct.  20,  '65,  ex.  of  s. ;  d.  before  1886. 

COMPANY  A. 

(Mechanic  Light  Infantry,  Co.    B,  7th  Regt.,  M.  V.  M.,  Salem.  Unless 
otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted    April  16,   '61.) 

CAPTAINS. 

Greorge  H.  Pierson,  45,  Salem;  D.  of  C.,  Jan.  17,  1857;  prom. 

Lieut. -colonel,  July  5,  '61. 
Edward  H.  Staten  from  1st  Lieut.  July  6th,  '61;  M.  O.  with 

regiment;  Captain,  Co.  B.  7th  Infty.,  M.  V.  M.,  July  1, 

'62— Dec.   31,    '62;  Captain,   6th  Infty.,   M.  V.   M.,   100 

days,  July  15,  '64— -Oct.  27.  '64. 


324       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANTS. 

Edward  H.  Staten,  29,  Salem;  prom.  .Captain,  July  6,  '61. 
Lewis  E.  Wentworth,  from  2d  Lieut.,  July  6,  '61 ;  M.  0.  with 

regiment;  Captain,  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d  Regt.;  res. 

July  16,    '62 ;   again   Captain,   same  company,  Aug.   20, 

'62 ;  disa.  May  18,  '63. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANTS. 

Lewis  E.  Wentworth,  38,  Salem;  prom.  1st  Lieut,  July  6, 

'61. 
Charles  D.  Stiles,  from  1st  Sergt.,  July  6,   '61;  M.  O.  with 

regiment ;  First  Lieut.,  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d  Regt. ;  res. 

Aug.  4,  '62 ;  d.  Oct.  8,  1908,  Boston. 

SERGEANTS. 

Charles  D.  Stiles  (1st),  25,  Salem;  prom.  2d  Lieut.,  July  6, 

'61. 
James  H.  Estes   (1st),  32,   So.  Danvers;  from  Sergt.,  July 

6,  '61 ;  1910,  Salem. 
Benj.  K.  Brown,   28,   Salem;  later  wagoner,   2d  Unattached 

Co.  (L),  3d  Mass.  Cav.,  Oct.  21,  '61— Dec.  27,  '64. 
David   N.   Jeffrey,    28,   So.    Danvers;   later   Sergt,,    2d   Co., 

S.  S.,  with  22d  Regt.,  Sept    18,  '61— Oct.  17,  '64. 
Albert  J.  Lowd,  21   (painter),   Salem;  from  Corp.;  July  6, 

'61 ;  b.  Salem ;    15    years    Asst.    Treas.    and    Collector, 

Salem ;  Adjt.,  Post  34,  G.  A.  R. ;  Past  Grand,  I.  0.  0.  F. ; 

Past  Chief  Patriarch  and  Scribe,  Salem  Encampment ;  d. 

Jan.  4,  1904,  Salem. 

CORPORALS. 

Albert  J.  Lowd,  21,  Salem;  prom.  Sergt.,  July  6,   '61. 
John  W.  Hart,  21,  So.  Danvers;  en.  Feb.  28,  '62,  1st  Mass.  IT. 

Arty.;  re-en.  Feb.  28,   '64;  1st  Sergt.,  Feb.  29,   '64;  dis. 

June  21,   '65,  disa. 
James  H.  Sleeper,  32,  Danvers ;  later  Sergt. ;  Co.  K,  8th  Regt. ; 

9  mos.  service;  d.   Topsfield. 
Joseph  M.  Parsons,  21,  Salem ;  later  2d  Lieut.,   Co.  B,  7th 

Regt.,  M.  V.  M. ;  6  mos.  service;  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  A,  1st 

Batt   H.  Arty.,  Jan.   30,    '63;   1st  Lieut,  3d  H.  Arty., 

Nov.  24,  '63 ;  Captain,  May  28,  '64 ;  M.  0.  Sept.  18,  '65 ; 

1910,  Salem. 
John  F.  Clark,  28,  Salem;  from  private,  July  6,  '61. 


COMPANY  A.  325 

PRIVATES. 

Adams,  Charles  P.,  23,  Salem;  later  1st  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  15th 

Infty. ;  d.  June  26,  1893,  Salem. 
Allen,  Charles  W.,  20,  Danvers ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  8th 

Regt. ;  9  mos.  service ;  lat.  add.  Philadelphia,  Penn. 
Bailey,  Edwin,   25,   Danvers;  later  1st  Lieut.,   Co.   K,   8th 

Regt. ;  9  mos.  service ;  1910,  Haverhill. 
Briggs,  Henry  T.,  21,  Danvers;  prisoner,  Bull  Run,  July  21, 

'61;  M.  O.,  June  24,  '62,  with  party  released  prisoners; 

later  Co.  H,  3d  H.  Arty. ;  d.  Feb.  16,  1910,  Danvers. 
Burrows,  Win.  A.,  28,  Danvers. 
Burton,  Jacob,  25,  Danvers. 
Buxton,  George  B.,  18,  Salem;  dis.  July  12,  '61,  disa.;  d.  1905, 

Everett. 
Buxton,  George  F.,   22,  Salem;  later  Salem  Cadets,   1862; 

also  Q.  M.  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  2d  H.  Arty.;  1910,  Everett. 
Buxton,  Samuel  H.,  24,  So.  Danvers ;  1910,  Peabody. 
Cate,  Samuel  H.,  20,  Salem;  prisoner,  Bull  Run,  July  21,  '61; 

M.  0.  with  party  released  prisoners,  June  24,  '62. 
Chipman,  Charles  G.,  21,  Salem ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  24th 

Mass. ;  2d  Lieut.,  54th  Mass.,  May  31,  '63 ;  1st  Lieut.,  Jan. 

20,   '64;  Captain,  Dec.  16,   '64;  M.  0.  Aug.  20,   '65;  d. 

Green  Bay,  Wis.,  Jan.  25,  1887. 
demons,  Wm.  H.,  20,  Salem;  later  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d 

Regt. ;  1910,  Salem. 
Crane,  Albert  J.  25,  Danvers;  later  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d 

Regt. 

Crosby,  Lyman  D.,  23,  Danvers. 
Crowell,  George  M.,  29,  Danversport;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  7th 

M.  V.  M.,  6  mos.  service,  1862;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  I,  6th 

M.  V.  M.,  100  days  service,  1864;  1910,  Danvers. 
Daniels,  John  B.,  30,  Salem;  later  Co.  E,  48th  Mass.  Infty. 
Davenport,  David,  20,  Salem. 
Davidson,  Henry,  Jr.,  19,  Salem;  later  served  4  years  in  4th 

Battery;  d.  Dec.,  1904,  Salem. 
Davis,  Charles  W.,  21,  Salem. 
Dodge,  Charles  W.,  23,  Salem. 

Dominick,  Joseph,  21,  Salem;  later  Co.  H,  29th  Mass. 
Dowst,    Joshua  W.,  24,  Salem;    later    1st    Unattached    Co. 

(Read's  Co.),  3d  Mass.  Cav. ;  also  Sergt,  Co.  I,  6th  M. 

V.  M.,  100  days  service,  1864. 


326       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Drown,  William  P.,  23,  Salem. 

Ford,  John  F.,   24,  Salem;  later   Sergt.,   Co.   E,  48th  Mass. 

Infty. 

Fuller,  George  H.,  25,  Danvers ;  later  Co.  B,  2d  H.  Arty. 
Gardner,  Abel,  24,  Salem;  later  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d  Regt.; 

also  Corp.,  Co.  B,  1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. 
Gardner,  Charles  W.,  18.  Salem;  Salem  Cadets,  1862;  U.  S. 

Navy,  July  15,  '63— Ausr.  15,  '64;  1910,  Somerville. 
Gardner,  William  H.,  21,  Salem;  1910,  Salem. 
Giles,  Charles  H.,  18,  Salem;  later  Co.  I,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  100 

days,  1864;  1910,  Danvers. 
Oilman,  John  T.,  19,  Danvers;  1910,  Lynn. 
Glidden,  Joseph  H.,  20,  Salem ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  7th 

M.  V.  M.,  6  mos.,  1862 ;  also  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  I,  6th  M.  V. 

M.,  100  days,  1864;  d.  Sept,  5,  1892,  Salem. 
Gwinn,  Charles  H.,  25,  Salem;  later  Corp.  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V. 

M..  6  mos.,  1862;  also  Sersrt.  Co.  I,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  100  days, 

1864. 
Hildreth,  Elbridge  H.,  32,  So.  Danvers ;  later  wagoner,  Co.  C, 

23d  Mass. ;  d.  S.  H.,  Togus,  Me. 

Hill,  James,  20,  Danvers;  later  1st  Sergt,,  Co.  C,  33d  Mass. 
Howard,  John  H.,  19,  Danvers;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V. 

M.,  6  mos.,  1862;  1910,  Peabody;  b.  Jackson,  Me.,  Jan. 

4,   1842. 
Kurd,  William  H.,  30,  Salem;  later  2d  Lieut.,   Co.  B,  50th 

Mass. 

Kehew,  John  H.,  26,  Salem;  Co.  B,  24th  Mass. 
Leavitt.  Israel  P.,  28,  Salem;  dis.  June  8,    '61,  disa. ;  later 

Corp.,  Co.  B,  17th  Mass. ;  d.  June  2,  1909,  Salem. 
Leonard,  James,  21,  Salem;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M., 

6  mos.,  1862;  also  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  A,  3d  H.  Arty.;  1910, 

Boston. 
Libby,  Henry,  23,  Salem;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M., 

6  mos.,  1862 ;  1910,  Salem. 
Lufkin,  William,  25,  Danvers. 
Mansfield,  John  R.,  40,   Salem;   orderly  to  Lt.-col.  Pierson; 

later  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M.,  6  mos.,  1862;  also  wagoner  Co. 

A,  1st  Batt.  Arty. ;  d.  Oct.  4,  1908,  Salem. 
Maxfield,  James,  Jr.,  23,  Salem.  . 
Melcher,  Levi  L.,  27,  Salem;  later  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M.,  6  mos., 

1862 ;  also  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with  22d  Mass. ;  1910,  Salem. 


COMPANY  A.  327 

Moore,  Denison  P.,  21,  So.  Danvers,;  wd.  hip.  Bull  Run;  cl. 

1903,  Peabody. 
Morse,  George  W.,  22,  Salem;  later  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M.,  6 

mos.,  1862. 

Closer,  John  B.,  18,  Salem;  later  Co.  D,  22d  Mass.;  d.  Dan 
vers. 
Moses,  James,  21,  Beverly ;  later  Co.  A,  23d  Mass. ;  also  Co. 

G,  40th  Mass. ;  d.  Beverly. 
Moulton.  Henry  W.,  20,  So.  Danvers;  later  1st.  Lieut.,  Co.  K, 

35th  Mass.,  also  1st  Lieut,  and  Adjt,  Co.  A,  39th  Mass. 
Munroe,  Stephen  N.,  27,  Salem. 
Munsey,  Joseph  C.,  19,  Danvers;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  14th  N. 

H.  Vols. 

Nimblet,  Benj.  F.,  29,  Salem;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  23d  Mass. 
North,  James  D.,  21,  Danvers;  later  Co.  D.  62d  Mass. 
Osborne,  John  H.,  18,  Salem;  1910,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Osborne,  Laban  S.,  20,  Salem;  later  Co.  A.  1st  H.  Arty. 
Palmer,  William  H.,  20,  Salem. 
Patten,  James  W.,  18,  Salem;  wd.  elbow.  Bull  Run. 
Peabody,  William  M.,  19,  Salem;  later  4th  Battery;  d.  Salem. 
Perry,  Henry  W.,  40,  Salem. 
Phippen,  Charles  H.,  22,  Salem;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V. 

M:..  6  mos.,  1862;  also  Co.  A,  1st  H.  Arty.;  1910,  Salem. 
Poor,  James.  Jr.,  29,  So.  Danvers;  later  Co.  C,  1st  H.  Arty. 
Pousland,  John  II.,  20,  Salem;  later  Corp.,  Co.  A.  1st  Batt.  H. 

Arty. ;  1910,  Amesbury. 

Pratt,  Calvin  L.,  19.  Salem:  later  4th  Battery. 
Pratt,  Lewis  R.,  21,  Salem;  later  Sergt..  Co.  L,  2d  H.  Arty.; 

d.  July  5,  1899,  Salem. 
Ricker,  Chas.  W..  18 ;  Danvers. 
Rix,  Asa  W.  S..  18,  Danvers;  1910,  Saratoga,  X.  Y. 
Semons,  Francis  A.,  23,  Salem;  later  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M.,  6 

mos.,  1862;  also  Co.  E,  2d  H.  Arty.;   d.  Dec.  16,  1899, 

Chelsea. 
Sloper,  Henry,  29,  Danvers ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V.  M., 

6  mos.,  1862;  also  Co.  E,  2d  H.  Arty. 
Sloper.  William  A.,  23,  Salem. 
Smith,  Henry  J.,  22,  Salem. 
Smith,  Robert,  20,  Danvers;  later  Sergt..  2d  Co.,  S.  S.,  with 

22d  Mass. 
Stiles,  William  W.,  27,  So.  Danvers;  d.  Wellesley. 


328       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M,,  THREE  MONTHS. 


J.  H.  Howard 


Geo.  F.  Buxton 
Co.  A. 


A.  W.  S.  Rix 


Symonds,  Nathaniel' A.,  26,  Salem;  later  Corp.,  Co.  I,  6th  M. 

V.  M.,  100  days,  1864. 
Tufts,  Rufus  W..  20,  Salem. 
Warren,  Edward  J.,  27,  Salem;  1910,  Salem. 
Webber,  Mendall  S.,  23,  Danvers;  1910,  Salem. 
Weeks,  William  H.,  22,  Salem;  d.   (typhoid  fever)   Sept.  3, 

1861,    Salem;    bur.    by   Company,   under   arms. 
West,  George,  27,  Salem;  later  Co.  B.  7th  M.  V.  M..  6  mos., 

1862. 

Wheeler,  Samuel  B.,  23,  Salem;  Co.  A,  1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. 
Williams,  Charles  A.,  20,  Salem;  later  Sergt,  Co.  I,  6th  M.  V. 

M.,  100  days,  1864;  d.  June  13,  1898,  Peabody. 
Wilson,  James,  29,  Topsfield;  later  2d   Lieut..    Co.    D,    48th 

Mass. ;  d.  Nov.  18,  1902,  Topsfield. 


COMPANY  B. 

(Richardson  Light  Guard,  Co.  E,  7th  Regt.,  M.  V.  M.,  South  Reading, 
now  Wakefield.     Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  April  16,  J61.) 


COMPANY  B.  329 

CAPTAINS. 

John  W.  Locke,  30,  So.  Reading;  D.  of  C.,  April  17,  '61;  M. 
0.  with  regiment ;  Lieut. -colonel,  50th  Mass.,  Nov.  11,  '62 
— Aug.  24,  '63;  d.  Wakefield,  Aug.  24,  1892. 

FIRST   LIEUTENANT. 

Charles  H.  Shepard,  33,  So.  Reading;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment;  2d  Lieut..  1st  H.  Arty.,  March  19, 
'62;  1st  Lieut,  Jan.' 16,  '63;  dis.  Nov.  18,  '64,  disa. ;  d. 
April  23,  1902,  Wakefield:  had  served  in  the  Mexican 
War. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

James  D.  Draper,  29,  So.  Reading;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment;  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  E,  50th  Mass.;  also 
served  as  Corp.  in  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.,  H.  Arty. ;  1910,  Hope- 
dale. 

SERGEANTS. 

George  W.  Townsend  (1st),  33,  So.  Reading;  later  served  as 

Corp.  in  Co.  E,  24th  Mass. ;  also  as  Sergt,  Co.  C,  59th 

Mass.;  1910,  Wakefield. 
Jason  H.  Knight,  22,  So.  Reading;  later  served  as  1st  Sergt., 

Co.  E,  50th  Mass. ;  also  as  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  E,  8th  M.  Y.  M., 

100  days,  1864. 
Benj.  F.  Barnard,  36,  So.  Reading;  later  served  as  2d  and  1st 

Lieut.,   Co.  K,  23d  Mass.;  res.  Aug.   19,    '63;   also  1st 

Lieut,  and  regimental  Quartermaster,  59th  Mass. ;  1910, 

Wakefield. 
George  W.  Aborn,  26,  So.  Reading;  prisoner,  Bull  Run,  July 

21,   '61;  exchanged  and  M.  0.,  June  1,   '64;  d.  July  26, 

1890,  Wakefield. 

CORPORALS. 

William  E.  Ransom,  27,  So.  Reading. 

James  W.  Sweetser,  32.  So.  Reading;  served  as  Sergt.,  Co.  E, 

8th  Mass.,  M.  V.  M.,  100  days.  1864. 
George  H.  Greene,  26,  So.  Reading ;  served  as  Sergt.,  Co.  E, 

50th  Mass. ;  d.  at  sea,  Jan.  10,  1863. 
James  A.  Burditt,  24.  So.  Reading;  served  as  Sergt.,  Co.  E, 

50th  Mass. ;  also  as  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  E,  8th  Mass.,  M.  Y.  M., 

100  days,  1864. 


330       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


MUSICIANS. 


Alvin  Drake,  Jr.,  31.  So.  Reading ;  later  served  in  band,  19th 

Mass. ;  d.  1910,  Melrose. 
William  V.  Vaiix,  24,  So.  Reading-;  later  served  in  Co.  A  as 

Musician,  1st  Batt,  II.  Arty. ;  d.  1900,  Chelsea. 


PRIVATES. 

Abbott,  Oramel  G.,  27,  Reading:  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  D,  50th 

Mass. ;  d.  Milford,  Conn. 
Adams.  Oliver  S.,  19,  Reading :  later  in  Cos.  B  and  C.  1st  R. 

I.  Cav. ;  1910,  Lynn. 
Anderson,  Charles  E.,  20,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K, 

22d  Mass. ;  also  V.  R.  C. ;  d.  Dec,,  1904,  Haverhill. 
Anderson,  James  H.,  23,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  K,  24th  Mass. 
Barker,  Samuel  S..  22,  Andover ;  later  1st  Co.  S.  S.,  with  16th 

Mass. 
Batchelder.  George  W.,  22,  Melrose;  later  Sergt,,  Co.  K,  22d 

Mass. ;  also  1st  Sergt.  32 d  Mass. 
Beckwith,  Robert  S.,  21,  So.  Reading;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  G, 

20th  Mass.;  2d  Lieut,,  July  7,  '62;  d.  Dec.  31,  '62,  from 

wds.  rec'd  at  Fredericksburg. 
Bixby.  Hiram,  20,  So.  Reading. 
Burditt,  George  A.,  18,  So.  Reading. 
Coney,  John  S.,  37,  Reading;  later"  1st  Lieut.,    Co.  I),   50th 

Mass.;   d.   1902,   Worcester. 
Cook,  Jonathan,  Jr.,  28,  Reading;  later  Co.  IT,  24th  Mass.;  d. 

Dec.   5,    '64,  Annapolis,  Md. 

Dix.  Joseph  0.,  51,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  E,  50th  Mass. 
Eaton,  Alvin  A.,  18,  Reading. 
Eustis,  Henry  W.,  26,  So.  Reading;  en.  U.  S.  Signal  Corps, 

April  29,   '64 ;  Wiscasset,  Me. 
Eustis,  Joseph  S.,  27,  So.  Reading;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  50th 

Mass. ;  wd.  hand,  Bull  Run  ;  d.  1909,  Fayette,  Iowa. 
Fairbanks,  James   M.,   20,   So.   Reading;   later   Co.   G,   24th 

Mass.;  1910,  Wakefield;  d.  Feb.  24,  1911. 
Fletcher,  Charles  X.,  22,  Reading. 
Foster,  Davis,  27,  So.  Reading;  later  1st  Sergt,  Co.  H,  24th 

Mass. ;  prom.   2d   and   1st  Lieut.,   Captain ;  Bvt. -major, 

March  13,   '65. 


COMPANY  B. 


331 


Griggs,  James  H.,  23,  Reading;  wd.  and  prisoner,  Bull  Run, 
July  21,  '61;  M.  0.  June  1,  '62;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  33d 
Mass.;  en.  Jan.  18,  '64,  37th  U.  S.  Col.  Troops;  Com. 
Sergt.,  Feb.  1,  '64;  2d  Lieut.,  Oct.  27,  '65;  b.  1838,  Ded- 
ham;  1910,  Somerville. 


Charles  T.  Harrington  (B).  Geo.  T.  Childs  (K). 

IX  LATER  YEARS. 


Harrington,  Charles  T.,  23,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  E,  50th 

Mass. ;  d.  Oct.,  1905,  Wakefield. 
Hart,  John  F.,  18,  So.  Reading ;  later  Co.  H,  24th  Mass. ;  also 

Co.  A,  1st  H.  Arty. 
Hartwell,  Albert  A.,  20,  Reading ;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  H. 

Arty.;   1910,   Woburn. 
Hay  den,  Frank  W.,  26,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  E,  1st 

Mass.  Cav. ;  also  1st  Lieut,,  Co.  D,  1st  Batt.  Cav. ;  d.  Dec. 

18,  1908,  Wakefield. 


332       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Hayden,  Wm.  H.,  Jr.,  32,  So.  Reading ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B, 

1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. 
Hayward,  Alex  M.,  20,  Reading;  later  Sergt.  and  1st  Sergt., 

Co.  C,  24th  Mass. ;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut. ;  res.  as  Cap 
tain,  May  15,  '65;  P.  0.  Foreign  Dept,  Boston;  d.  May, 

1897. 
Hosmer,   Orran   S.,   31,   Woburn;   also  found   as   Oliver;   d. 

Feb.  19,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
Hoyt,  Henry  D.,  28,  So.  Reading. 

Kidder,  George  H.,  Jr.,  24,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Cav. 
Lord,  Byron,  20,  So.  Reading;  later  served  in. llth  Battery. 
Lord,  George  H.,  19,  So.  Reading;  1910,  Philadelphia,  Penn. 
McGee,  Edward,  20,  So.  Reading;  en.  June  20,  '61;  M.  I. 

July  4,  '61;  served  in  Co.  C,  24th  Mass.;  also  in  Co.  E, 

192d  Penn. ;  also  in  the  Navy. 

McKay,  Gordon,  19,  Melrose;  later  2d  Lieut.,  22d  Mass. 
McKay,  Thomas  M.,  25,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G, 

20th  Mass.;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain;  as 
sassinated  in  camp,  near  Culpeper,  Va.,  Oct.  6,  1863. 
McKenzie,  John,  24,  Boston;  b.  Prince  Edward  Isle,  1838; 

came  to  Boston,  1858;  learned  patriotism  from  Dr.  E. 

N.  Kirk,  Ashburton  Place;   1910,  Roxbury. 
Morrill,  James  M.,  24,  So.  Reading;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  50th 

Mass.;  also  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  E,  8th  M.  V.  M.,  100  days, 

1864;  1910,  Boston. 
Moses,  George,  20,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  E,  50th  Mass.; 

also  U.  S.  Signal  Corps. 
Nichols,  George  W.,  21,  Reading;  later  Sergt.  and  1st  Sergt., 

Co.  H,  24th  Mass. ;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain ; 

d.  Nov.,  1903. 
Parker,  Nathan  D.,  29,  Reading;  prom.  Hospital  Steward, 

May  1,  '61. 
Parker,  William  D.,  35,  Reading;  later  Co.  H,  24th  Mass.; 

d.  Nov.  30,  1906,  Wakefield. 
Parsons,  Benj.   W.,   24,  Lynnfield;   dis.  June   3,    '61,   disa. ; 

later  Sergt.,  Co.  L,  3d  Cav. ;  prom.  2d  Lieut. ;  dis.  July 

15,  '64,  disa. 

Peterson,  Leonard,  20,  Reading. 

Pratt,  Edwin,  23,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Arty. 
Rahr,  Christian  E.,  21,  Reading ;  later  as  Rohr  in  Co.  F,  32d 

Mass. ;  trans,  to  V.  R.  C. ;  1910,  Custom  House,  Boston. 


COMPANY  B.  333 

Rayner,  John,  37,  So.  Reading;  d.  1891,  Wakefield. 

Rayner.   Ozias,   33,   So.   Reading;  later   Sergt.,   24th  Mass.; 

had  served  in  the  Mexican  War;  d.  Mar.  28,  1900. 
Robinson,  Charles  H.,  21,  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G,  20th 

Mass. 
Roundy,   John   D.,    21,   Reading;   later  Sergt,,    Co.   E,    20th 

Mass.,  also  given  as  DeRonda. 
Sherman,  William  H.,  30.  Reading;  later  Co.  C,  6th  M.  V.  M., 

9  mos.  1862;  d.  Feb.  16,  1901,  Reading. 
Smith,  Thomas,  23,  Stoneham. 
Stephens,  John  R.,  22,  Stoneham. 
Sweetser,  Oliver  S.,  28,   So.  Reading. 
Sweetser,  Thomas,  27,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  E,  50th 

Mass. 

Thompson,  Charles.  25,   So.  Reading. 
Thompson,   John   F.,   25,    S.    Reading;    later   Corp.,   Co.   K, 

4th  H.   Arty.;   1910,   Medford. 

Tibbetts,  Charles  II.,  24,  Reading;  dis.  June  3,  '61,  disa. 
Tibbetts,  Frank  L.,  20,  Reading;  prisoner,  Bull  Run,  July 

21,  761  ;  ex.  and  M.  0.  June  1,  '61;  1910,  AVest  Epping, 

N.  H. 

Twiss,  Adoniram  J.,  29,  So.  Reading. 
Tyler,   Wm.   N.,  26,   So.  Reading;  later   Corp.,   Co.   E,   50th 

Mass. ;  also  Sergt.,  Co.  E.  also  Sergt. -major,  8th  M.  V. 

M.,   100  days,   1864;   b.   Dec.    7,   1834,   Andover;   1910, 

Wakefield. 
Walker,  William  H.,  23,  So.  Reading;  later  2d  and  1st  Lieut. 

and  Captain,  20th  Mass.;  res.  April  26,  '64. 
Wardwell,  Henry  F.,  18,  Reading;  later  Co.  D,  33d  Mass.;  d. 

Feb.  16,  '64. 
Warren,  Horace  M.,  20,  So.  Reading;  later  1st  Lieut.,  5'0th 

Mass..;  also  1st  Lieut,  and  Adjt,,  59th  Mass.;  Maj.,  Aug. 

4,  '64;  d.  of  wds.  rec'd  at  Weldon  R.  R.,  Aug.  19,  '64. 
Weston,  Robert  II.,  23,  Reading ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  A,  20th 

Mass.;  d.  Jan.  13,   '63. 
Wiley,  Joseph  E.,  23,  So.  Reading;  later  Co.  L,  1st  H.  Arty.; 

d.  May  11,   1899,  Wakefield. 
Wiley,  William,  25,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  A,  17th 

Mass. 
Wilkins,  Edward  L.,  25,  So.  Reading;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K, 

4th  H.  Arty. 


334       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Wyman,  William,  19,  Melrose ;  later  Co.  C,  24th  Mass.;  d. 
Feb.  23,  1903. 

COMPANY  C. 

(Charlestown    Artillery,   Co.    D    [before   the    war],    5th   Regt.,    M.   V. 
M.   Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  April  16,    '61. 
*  Served  in   9   months'  term,      t  Served  in  100   days'   term. 


CAPTAIN. 

William  R.  Swan,  34,  Chelsea ;  D.  of  C.,  June  13,  1860 ;  M. 
0.  with  regiment;  1910,  Chelsea. 


FIRST   LIEUTENANT. 

Phineas  H.   Tibbetts,  38,   Charlestown;   D.   of  C.,  June   13, 
1860;  M.  O.  with  regiment. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

John  W.  Rose,  26,  So.  Boston;  D.  of  C.,  June  13,  I860;  M. 
O.  with  regiment;   1910,  Boston. 


THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

Hannibal  D.  Norton,  22,  Chelsea;  D.  of  C.,  June  13,  I860; 
M.  0.  with  regiment ;  Captain,  32d  Mass. ;  later  V.  R.  C. ; 
Bvt.-major  March  13.  '65;  b  No\ .  9,  1838,  Addison,  Me.; 
boyhood  spent  in  Boston;  1866,  Asst.  Inspct.  GenL, 
Dept.  Carolinas  •  later,  till  1869,  Commander  West. 
Dist,,  N.  C. 

FOURTH    LIEUTENANT. 

*tGeorge  H.  Marden,  21,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  June  13, 
1860 ;  M.  0.  with  regiment ;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos.  service, 
also  100  days. 


COMPANY  C.  335 

SERGEANTS. 

*Thomas  F.  Howard   (1st),  28,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D,  9 

mos. ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  K,  4th  Cav. 
Charles  W.  Strout,  28,  So.  Dedham. 
James  IT.  Rose,  23,  So.  Boston. 
*tCharles  P.  Whittle,  21,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos., 

also  100  days. 


CORPORALS. 

Samuel  E.  Holbrook,  Jr.,  25,  Charlestown. 

Henry  W.  Copps,  21,  Boston;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  E,  47th  Mass. 

Joseph  J.  Bell,  21,  Boston. 

*Valentine  Walberg,  19,  Somerville ;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos. 


MUSICIAN. 

George  Oakley,  20,  Charlestown ;  later  served  in  band  of  the 
19th  Mass.;  also  as  Mus.,  1st  Batt.,  H.  Arty.,  and  as 
private,  Co.  B,  43d  Mass. 


PRIVATES. 

*Ash,  AVilliam  G.,  24,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos. 
Blood  Hiram,  28,  Charlestown. 

^Branch,  Hiram  R.,  30,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos. 
*Chamberlain,  John  H.,  27,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos. 
Chase,  Charles  L.,  26,  Charlestown ;  later  in  10th  Battery. 
*tChell,  George,  33,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos.,  also  100 

days. 
Cheslyn,  Richard  W.,  21,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  D,  1st  Mass. 

Cav. ;  d.  June  17,  '63,  Aldie,  Va. 
Clark,  John  W.,  18,  Charlestown. 
Clark,  Stephen  M.,  22,  So.  Boston;  wd.  Bull  Run;  later  as 

Charles  Rogers  in  Co.  D,  12th  Mass. 
Cobleigh,  Charles  C.,  19,  Townsend ;  later  Co.  L,  1st  Cav.  and 

Co.  L,  4th  Cav.;  d.  Feb.  5,  1909,  Brighton. 
Colburn,  Charles  F.,  23,  Charlestown;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  H, 

29th  Mass.;  1910,  Charlestown. 


336       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Connor,  Thomas,  24,  Boston. 

Craig,  Thomas  F.,  25,  Boston;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  E,  22d  Mass. 

Cross,  George  W.,  20,  Charlestown ;  later  Co.  I,  32d  Mass. ;  b. 

Aug.  6,  1840,  Sebec,  Me. ;  morocco  dresser  at  enlistment ; 

later  engineer,  member  Post  10,  G.  A.  R.  •  d.  Dec.  27, 

1906,  AVorcester. 

Davis,  Charles  L.,  24,  Charlestown. 
Davis,  George  W.,  23,  Charlestown. 
Davis,   George   W.   G.,   19,    Charlestown;   later  Co.    G,   22d 

Mass.;  d.  Nov.  6,  1902,  S.  II.,  Chelsea. 
tDean,  John,  20,  So.  Boston ;  later  served  in  the  U.  S.  Navy ; 

vide  Co.  A,  100  days. 
Dickey,  Neal  S.,  21,  Deering,  N.  H. ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  3d 

Cavalry. 
Doyle,  William  J.,  21,  Charlestown;  later  Corp.,  Co.  I,  32d 

Mass. 

tD wight,  Joseph  F.,  36,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D,  100  days. 
Fales,  Lowell  E.,  25,  Walpole. 
Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.  N.,  22,  So.  Boston;  later  37th  U.  S. 

Colored  Troops,  originally  the  3d  North  Carolina. 
Foster,  Edward,  30,   Charlestown;  wrd.  head,   and  prisoner, 

Bull  Run,  July  21,  '61 ;  dis.  June  24,   '62 ;  later  Co.  E, 

59th  Mass.;  trans.,   to  Co.   E,  57th;  d.  April  17,  1897, 

Boston. 

Fox,  Edward,  21,  Charlestown. 
French,  William  C.,  19,  Northampton. 
*Gabriel,  William  E.,  42,  Saugus;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos. 
Gammons,  Charles  A.,  19.  Charlestown. 
Gifford,  Albert  D.,  27,  Stockholm,  N.  Y. ;  later  Co.  H,  50th 

Mass. 
tGossom,  Elijah  D.,  24,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  K,  16th  Mass.; 

vide  Co.  D,  100  days;  also  Co.  A,  2d  Cav. 
Grant,  Melville  C.,  20,  Chelsea ;  d.  1894,  Medford. 
Hatton,  James,  24,   Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,   Co.  C,  28th 

Mass. ;  1910,  Charlestown. 
Hayes,  William,  28,  Waltham ;  later  Co.  M,  1st  Cav. ;  d.  Dec. 

27,  '63,  Hilton  Head,  S.  C. 

Herman,  Conrad,  Jr.,  23,  Boston ;  later  Co.  K,  1st  Mass.  Infty. 
Hobart,  George  W.,  23,  Boston ;  wd.  Bull  Run ;  later  Co.  C, 

1st  Cav. 
Jones,  Melville  D.,  19,  Plaistow,  N.  H. ;  later  Corp.,  6th  M. 

V.  M.,  9  mos.,  1862;  1894-6,  Alderman,  Somerville;  Rep. 

Legislature,  1897-8;  d.  June  22,  1910. 


COMPANY  C.  337 

Kilborn,  Albert.  20,  Salisbury,  N.  H. 

*tKilham,  George  W.,  23,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos., 

also  100  days. 
tLake,  Alpheus  A.,   22,   Charlestown;  later  8th   Battery,   6 

mos.,  1862;  vide  Co.  D,  100  days. 
Lane,    Frank    W.,   25,    Charlestown;    wd.    Bull    Run;     d. 

Waltham. 
Leslie,  Albert  S.,  24,  Woburn;  later  1st  Sergt,,  Co.  K,  39th 

Mass. 

Lincoln,  Joshua  W.,  24,  Charlestown;  d.  April  4,  1903,  East- 
ham. 

Lord.  Charles  L.,  31,  Charlestown ;  later  Corp.,  3d  Battery. 
McCloud,  John,  28,  Charlestown. 
tMdntire,  John  C.,  22,  Boston;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  22d  Mass.; 

vide  Co.  D,  100  days. 

t Miller,  Eugene  J.,  19,  Boston;  vide  Co.  D,  100  days. 
Morrison,  Daniel  P.,  24,  Cambridge. 
Nichols,  Charles  IT.,  23,  Salisbury,  N.  H. 
Norton,  George,  24,  Boston ;  later  U.  S.  Navy ;  1910,  Salem. 
Oakman,  Winslow  S.,  27,  Charlestown;  wd.  Bull  Run;  later 

1st  Sergt.,  Co.  I,  32d  Mass. ;  also  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  2d  H. 

Arty.;  1910,  S.  H.,  Togus,  Me. 
Peeler,   Albert,    19,   Charlestown;   later    Sergt,,    Co.    G,    1st 

Cav. ;  1910,  State  House,  Boston. 
Penney,  Charles  H.,  30,  So.  Boston. 
*Perham,  Albin  B..  34,  No.  Belgrade,  Maine;  vide  Co.  D,  9 

mos. 
Pf aff,  Francis  W.,  22,  Boston ;  wd.  ankle,  Bull  Run ;  later  as 

Wm.  F.  Sellinger,  Co.  K,  2d  Cav. ;  1910,  Taunton. 
Pratt,  John  M.  P.,  23,  Charlestown;  wd.  abdomen,  Bull  Run. 
Quinn,  Maurice  M.,  21,  Townsend;  later  Co.  B,  1st  Cav. 
Reed,  Freeman  H.,  22,  Charlestown. 

Richardson,  Alvah,  22,  Townsend;  later  Co.  B,  26th  Mass. 
Robertson,  John,  35,  So.  Boston;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  F,  28th 

Mass. 

Rowe,  Charles  A.,  27,  So.  Boston. 
Selvey,   William,   32,   So.  Boston;   later  Corp.,   Co.  E,    61st 

Mass. 

Smith,  Lewis,  20,  Charlestown ;  wd.  knee,  Bull  Run. 
Stone,  Horace   P.,  Jr.,  27,  Woburn;  dis.  June  2,  '61,  disa. 
Sullivan,  Humphrey,  Jr.,  27,  Charlestown;  later  1st  Lieut., 

Co.  A,  28th  Mass. 


338       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Wade,  James  P.,  27,  Chelsea;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  32d  Mass.; 

prom.  Sergt. -major,  2d  and  1st  Lieut. 
White,  William  II.,  38,  Charlestown  ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  I,  32d 

Mass..  trans.  V.  R,  C. 
Willan,  Thomas,  24,  Charlestown ;  later  Cos.  L  and  A,  1st  II. 

Arty. 

Worthen,  Harvey  R.,  26,  So.  Boston;  later  Co.  I,  32d  Mass. 
Wotton,  Bernard,   28,   Boston ;  wd.   Bull  Run ;  returned  to 

England  to  resume  his  position  as  Lieutenant  in  Royal 

Navy. 

Yendley,  Joseph  B.,  22,  Boston. 
Zoller,  George  H.,  21,  Charlestown  ;  later  Co.  C,  1st  Cav. 

COMPANY  D. 

(Haverhill  Light  Infantry  [Hale  Guards] ,    Co.   G,   7th  Regt,,   M.    V. 
M.    Unless    otherwise    stated,    all    enlisted    April    16,     '61.) 

CAPTAIN. 

Carlos  P.  Messer,  27,  Haverhill ;  D.  of  C.,  Nov.  2,  1859 ;  M. 
0.  with  regiment ;  later  Colonel,  50th  Mass. ;  d.  Los 
Angeles,  CaL,  Feb.  13,  1907. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

George  J.  Dean,  32,  Haverhill;  D.  of  C.,  April  4,  I860;  M. 
0.  with  regiment;  d.  Oct.  22,  1902,  Haverhill. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Daniel  F.  Smith,  38,  Haverhill;  D.  of  C.,  April  4,  I860;  M. 
O.  with  regiment. 

THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

Charles  II.  P.  Palmer,  35,  Haverhill;  D.  of  C.,  June  25,  1860; 
M.  0.  with  regiment;  d.  Haverhill. 


COMPANY  D.  339 


FOURTH   LIEUTENANT. 

Thomas  T.  Salter,  29.  Haverhill;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  1st 
Lieut.,  Co.  H,  22d  Mass.;  k.  Games'  Mills,  June  27,  '62. 


SERGEANTS. 

John  J.  Thompson   (1st),  25,  Haverhill;  later  Captain,  Co. 

H,  22d  Mass. 
George  W.  Edwards,  40,  Haverhill;  later  Captain,  Co.   G, 

50th  Mass.;  also  Co.  B,  1st  Batt.  Cav. 
James  M.  Palmer,  40,  Haverhill ;  d.  before  1892. 
John  P.  Mills,  22,  Bradford;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  17th 

Mass.;  1910,  Bradford. 


CORPORALS. 

William  Salter,  21,  Haverhill ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  22d  Mass. 
George  W.  Wallace,  21,  Haverhill;  later  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  G, 

50th  Mass. 

Van  Bur  en  Hoyt,  30,  Haverhill. 
Daniel  J.  Haynes,  30,  Haverhill;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  22d 

Mass. ;  prom.  2d  Lieut, ;  d.  Oct.  20,  '62. 


MUSICIANS. 

John  E.   Mills,  45,  Bradford;   later  Co.   D,   17th  Mass.;  d. 

May  11,  1899,  Bradford. 
Leonard  Sawyer,  Jr.,  25,  Haverhill ;  later  Prin.  Mus,  17th 

Mass. 
Orlando  S.  Wright,  29,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  G,  17th  Mass. 


PRIVATES. 

Bickford,  Ebenezer  B.,  33,  Haverhill;  d.  Jan.  24,  1905,  Read 
ing. 

Bowen,  Charles,  21,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  D,  1st  Cav. 

Bromley.  Lyman  P.,  22,  Haverhill ;  Later  Co.  G,  17th  Mass. ; 
also  1st  Sergt,  Co.  G,  4th  Cav.;  d.  March  14,  '64. 


340       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Bromley,  Orrin  B.,  19,  Haverhill. 

Burnham,  Charles,  20,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  M,  1st  H.  Arty. 

Buswell,  George  P.,  21,  Alton  Bay,  N.  H. ;  later  Co.  B,  12th  N. 

H. ;  d.  Feb.  27,  1896,  Haverhill. 
Caswell.  Joseph  A.,  24,  Haverhill. 
Chandler,  Samuel  A.,  25,  Bridgewater ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  I, 

1st  Cav. ;  also  Co.  I,  4th  Cav. 

Colby,  John,  Jr.,  20,  Haverhill;  dis.  June  2,   '61,  disa. 
Coles,  Thomas  J.,  30,  Haverhill. 
Collins,  Enos,  27,  Methuen ;  later  Co.  C,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  100 

days,  1864. 

Collins,  Hiram  S.,  26,  Haverhill;  k.  Bull  Run,  July  21,  '61. 
Cook,  William  P.,  27,  Haverhill ;  dis,  June  2,  '61,  disa. ;  later 

Co.  L,  4th  H.  Arty. 
Davis,  Stephen  H.,  22,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  I,  15th  Maine;  d. 

Boston. 
Dawson,  Frank,  20,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  22d  Mass.; 

trans.  1st  U.  S.  Cav. 
Dodge,   George   S.,   23,   Boxford ;   later  Co.   F,   Corp.,   35th 

Mass. ;  1910,  Bradford. 
Dodge,  Orrison  J.,  23,  Haverhill ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  22d 

Mass.;  k.  Malvern  Hill,  Va.,  July  1,  ?62. 
Edwards,  Nathaniel  M..  23,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  G,  1st  N.  Y. 

Engineers;  b.  July  5,  1837,  Haverhill;  Union  College  (N. 

Y.),  C.  E.,  1859;^  1866,  Appleton,  Wis.,  Civil  and  Hy 
draulic  Engineer;  d.  July  20,  1908. 
Ellison,  Horace,  19,  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  later  U.  S.  Navy. 
Emerson,  Edward  H.,  20,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  17th 

Mass. ;  d.  Nov.  17,  '63,  Sandown,  N.  H. 
Fogg,    George  F.,    32,   Haverhill;   later   Corp.,   Co.   H,   22d 

Mass.;  also  Co.  D.  1st  Cav.;  1910,  Danville,  N.  H. 
Foster,  George  B.,  32,  Haverhill ;  later  U.  S.  Navy ;  d.  before 

1892. 
Fowler,  Samuel  W.,  27,  Haverhill;  later  Corp.,  Co.  H,  22d 

Mass.;  d.  Oct.  20,  1893,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
Frost,  James,  22,  Haverhill. 
Gould,  Albert  H.,  20,  Haverhill. 
Gould,   Royal  D.,   24,  Haverhill;  later   Sergt.,   Co.   G,   50th 

Mass.;  also  Farrier,  Co.  B,  1st  Batt.  Cav.;  1910,  Cam 
bridge. 


COMPANY  D.  341 

Greenleaf,  Matthew  N.,  27,  Exeter,  N.  H. ;  later  1st  Sergt., 

2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  Captain,  6th  N.  H.  Infty. ;  severely 

wounded,  July  30,  '64,  mine  explosion,  Petersburg,  Va. 
Gushee,  Franklin  A.,  18,  Haverhill ;  later  Sergt.,  6th  Battery. 
Hatch,  Joshua,  Jr.,  27,  Haverhill;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  G, 

50th  Mass. 

Hersum,  Greenleaf,  19,  Haverhill. 
Holmes,  Varnum  E.,  22,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  L,  1st  Cav. ; 

trans.,  Co.  L,  4th  Cav. 
Jackson,  Hiram  H.,  21,  Haverhill. 
Judge,  Charles  W.,  23,  Haverhill ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  I,  17th 

Mass. ;  also  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  1st  Batt.  Cav. 
Kaler,  Cornelius,  21,  Bradford ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  1st  Cav.  ; 

also  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain,  Co.  M,  5th  Cav. 
Kief,  Thomas,  19,  Haverhill ;  later  Corp.  and  Sergt.,  1st  Cav.; 

re-en.,  trans,  to  4th  Cav.,  and  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut. 
Kiernan,  Frank  T.,  19,  Haverhill ;  dis.  June  2,  '61,  disa. ;  later 

Sergt.,  Co.  H,  4th  Cav. 
Knowles,  Charles  K.,  23,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  H,  22d  Mass.; 

prom.  2d  Lieut. ;  d.  July  11,    '63,  from  wds.  reed,  at 

Gettysburg. 
Livingston,  Murray  V.,  20,  Haverhill ;  later  bugler,  Co.  D,  1st 

Cav. ;  1910,  Boston. 

Meserve,  Ebenezer,  28,  Haverhill ;  later  Co.  B,  1st  Batt.  Cav. 
Mills,  Charles  E.,  18,  Bradford;  later  Co.  D,  17th  Mass. 
Mills,  William  W.,  20,  Bradford;  later  Co.  I,  1st  H.  Arty.; 

d.  May  11,  1910,  Haverhill. 
Murch,  Charles,  23,  Haverhill. 
Noyes,   Ariel   S.,   32,   Haverhill;   later   Sergt.,   Co.   D,    17th 

Mass.;  d.  Nov.  10,  1907,  Amesbury. 
Osgood,  Joseph  H.,  32,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  D,  17th  Mass.; 

also  Co.  D,  1st  Cav. 
Parmalee,  Henry  H.,  24,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  M,  1st 

H.  Arty. ;  d.  from  wds.,  1864. 
Pecker,   John  B.,   21,  Haverhill;  later  Co.  D,   17th  Mass.; 

also  Co.  B,   62d    Mass. 
Philbrook,  David  T.,  23,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  H,  22d 

Mass.;  k.  June  27,  '62,  Games'  Mills,  Va. 
Phillips,  Leonard  W.,  22,  Bradford;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  D, 

17th  Mass.;  d.  Oct.  5,   '64,  rebel  prison. 


342       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Ray,  Albert  F.,  19,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  1st  Cav. ; 

prom.  Sergt. -major,  2d  and  1st  Lieut. ;  trans,  to  Co.  H, 

4th  Cav.,  and  prom.  Captain;  1910,  Haverhill. 
Richards,   Fitz  J.,   19,   Haverhill;  later   Corp.,   Co.   H,   22d 

Mass. ;  also  Co.  M,  4th  H.  Arty. 
Rogers,  Tristum  G.,  32,  Bradford. 
Shaw,  James  A.,  36,  Haverhill;  wd.  hip,  and  prisoner,  Bull 

Run,  July  21,  '61 ;  paroled  and  M.  O.  May  27,  '62 ;  later 

Co.  G,  35th  Mass. 
Shute,  Alonzo  M.,  30,  Haverhill;  later  2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  Co. 

H,  22d  Mass. 

Smith,  Henry  J.,  23,  Haverhill. 
Smith,  Nahum  F.,  21,  Haverhill. 
Stanley,  Harrison,  40,  Haverhill. 
Steele,  William  H.,  18,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  2d  and  1st 

Lieut.,  Co.  H,  22d  Mass. 
Stimpson,  John  F.,  25,  Haverhill;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G,  17th 

Mass. 
Stowe,  Andrew  F.,  23,  Haverhill ;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  G,  50th 

Mass. 

Taylor,  Henry,  33,  Haverhill. 
Tuttle,  Hiram  O.,  24,  Effingham,  N.  H. ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  L, 

1st  N.  H.  H.  Arty. 
Watkins,  Charles  S.,  18,  Groveland;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  25th 

Mass. ;  k.  June  3,  '64,  Cold  Harbor,  Ya. 
Webber,  Wellington  B.,  19,  Groveland;  later  7th  Battery. 
Wyman,  George  P.,  21,  Haverhill. 

COMPANY  E. 

(Lawrence  Light  Guard,  Co.  E,  5th  Kegt.,  M.  V.  M.,  Medford.     Un 
less   otherwise   stated,   all   enlisted   April   16,    '61. ) 

*Served   9   months'   term,      t Served   in   100   days'   term. 


CAPTAIN. 

John  Hutchins,  40,  Bedford;  D.  of  C.,  Aug.  8,  1859;  M.  0. 
with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  Co.  C,  39th  Mass. ;  com. 
Lieut.-colonel,  June  7,  '65,  not  mustered;  d.  Oct.  12, 
1905,  Medford. 


COMPANY  E.  343 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

John  Gray  Chambers,  34,  Medford;  D.  of  C.,  Aug.  8,  1859; 
app.  Adjt.,  July  8,  '61 ;  M.  0.  with  regiment ;  a  printer 
by  trade,  he  was  city  collector  for  the  Boston  Courier 
in  '61 ;  served  through  the  Mexican  War. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Perry  Coleman,  26.  Medford;  D.  of  C.,  Feb.  12,  '61;  M.  0. 
with  regiment ;  later  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  C,  39th  Mass. 

THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

William  H.  Pattee,  28,  Cambridge ;  M.  O.  with  regiment ; 
1910,  Arlington. 

SERGEANTS- 

Isaac  F.  R.  Hosea   (1st),  28,  Medford;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co. 

C,  39th  Mass. ;  prom.  1st  Lieut.,  not  mustered ;  d.  April 

16,  1893,  Medford. 
Samuel  M.   Stevens,  27,   Medford;  later  1st  Sergt.,   Co.   C, 

39th  Mass. ;  k.  May  10,  '64,  Laurel  Hill,  Va. 
James  A.  Bailey,  24,  Cambridge ;  1910,  Arlington. 
William  H.  Lawrence,  26,  Cambridge ;  k.  while  bearing  the 

colors,  Bull  Run,  July  21,   '64;  he  fell,  pierced  by  two 

balls. 

CORPORALS. 

Sanford  Booker,  26,  Medford. 

William  J.   Crooker,   28,   Medford;  wd.  July   21,    '61,  Bull 

Run. 

Benjamin  Moore,  22,  Medford. 
Luther  F.  Brooks,  28,  Medford ;  d.  Dec.  20,  1899,  Boston. 

MUSICIAN. 

Richard  Pitt,  en.  and  M.  L,  Alexandria,  Va.,  July  4,  '61 ;  M. 
0.  with  regiment;  d.  Aug.  13,  1895,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 


344       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

PRIVATES. 

Alden,  William  F.,   27,  Medford;  later  Corp.,  Co.   C,  39th 

Mass.;  1910,  Cambridge. 
Aldridge,  William  H.  H.,  20,  Boston;  later  Co.  E,  3d  Cav. : 

Co.  F,   59th  Mass.;  trans.   Com.  Sergt.,  F.   &   S.,   57th 

Mass. 
Austin,  Ebenezer  V.,  24,  Randolph;  later  Corp.,  Co.  H,  23d 

Mass. 

Barri,  Martin  Y.  B.,  22,  Cambridge. 
Benham,  Daniel,  26,  Medford ;  dis.  June  29,  '61  disa. ;  later 

Corp.,  1st  Batt. ;  trans.  9th  Battery. 
Bisbee,  Horatio,  Jr.,  21,  Medford;  later  Lieut. -colonel  and 

Colonel,  9th  Maine  Infty. ;  1910,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
Bishop,  John,  24,  Medford. 
Booker,  George  D.,  21,  Medford;  later  Corp.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass. ;  trans.  V.  R.  C. ;  d.  Medford. 
Braden,  Angus,  28,  Medford;  later  as  Braydon,  Co.  I,  20th 

Mass.;  d.  March  3,  '63. 
Bragdon,  Stephen  M.,  24,  Kingston,  N.  H. 
*Burbank,  William  H.,  23,  Medford ;  vide  F.  &  S.,  9  mos. ; 

later  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  I,  58th  Mass. ;  d.  June  11,  '64,  White 

House  Landing,  Va. 

Carr,  John  P.,  21,  Medford;  later  Co.  I,  20th  Mass. 
Carr,  Royal  S.,  23,  Medford;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  39th  Mass.; 

1910,  Winchester. 
Cheney,  Daniel  S.,  25,  Medford;  later  1st  Battery;  k.  June 

30,   '62,  Charles  City  Cross  Roads,  Va. 
Clapp,  Meletiah  0.,  21,  Medford;  later  Corp.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass. ;  trans,  to  U.  S.  Navy. 

Currier,  Sidney,  20,  Medford;  later  Sergt.,  3d  H.  Arty. 
Curtis,  Frank  J.,  20,  Medford;  later  Co.  C,  39th  Mass.;  d. 

Feb.  26,   '63,  Richmond,  Va. 
Gushing,  Henry  H.  D.,  20,  Medford;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass. ;  1910,  Medford. 

Gushing,  Pyam,  Jr.,  21,   Medford;   d.  before  1886. 
Dane,  William  H.,  24,  Medford;  wd.  Bull  Run;  d.  Feb.  20, 

1895,  Medford. 
Davis,   Joseph,   20,    Medford;   later  Hospital-steward,    30th 

Mass. ;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  Adjt. 
Davis,  William  L.,  38,  Medford;  later  Co.  A,  17th  Mass. 


COMPANY  E.  345 

Dede,  Herman,  26,  Medford. 

Dow,  Albert  F.,  27,  Medford;  wd.,  Bull  Run;  later  Sergt., 

Co.  C,  39th  Mass. 
Duckrell,  Wm.  J.,  35,  Chelsea;  later  Co.  E,  40th  Mass.;  2d 

Lieut.,   61st  Mass.;  d.  July  29,  1894,  Alexandria,   Va. 
Eames,  John  H.,  26,  Medford ;  later  1st  Sergt.  and  2d  Lieut., 

Co.  C,  39th  Mass. ;  b.  Dec.  16,  1834;  came  home  from  the 

war  broken  in  health,   and  for  several  months  totally 

blind;   recovering   his  health,   from   1870   to   1886   was 

postmaster   of   Medford;   later   removed   to   Marshfield 

Hills;  1910,  Marshfield. 
Emerson,  William  B.  F.,  24,  Cambridge. 
Fletcher,  Joel  M.,   25,   Medford;   later  Corp.,   Co.   C,   39th 

Mass. ;  d.  Aug.  25,  '64. 
Fletcher,  Stephen  W.,  23,  Medford;  later  Corp.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass.;  trans.  V.  R.  C. 
Fowler,  Stephen  D.,  28,  Chelsea;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  35th 

Mass. 

*Grinn,  James  F.,  20,  Medford ;  vide  F,  9  mos. 
Hadley,  Charles  R.,  22,  Medford ; 
*Haskell,  Alfred,  30,  Medford ;  vide  F,  9  mos. 
Hawkins,  Henry  M.,  21,  Boston ;  later  Co.  C,  1st  H.  Arty. ; 

b.  Dover,  N.  H.,  Oct.  20,  1840;  save  for  army  service 

was  in  Boston  Fire  Dept.  from  Sept.  1,  '61,  to  Feb.  16, 

1906,  when  he  retired  at  his  own  request. 
Holman,  Herbert  A.,  20,  Medford;  later  Paymaster's  clerk, 

Washington,  D.  C. ;  d.  Boston. 
Hoyt,  John  H.,  18,  Medford;  prisoner,  Bull  Run;  ex.  and  M. 

0.  May  29,  '62. 
Ireland,  Henry    A.,  21,  Medford;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass. ;  prom.  2d  Lieut. ;  1910,  Medford. 
Jacobs,  Henry  B.,  18,  Medford;  later  8th  Battery,  6  mos., 

1862. 

tKeene,  Lewis  H.,  26,  Medford;  vide  Co.  A,  100  days. 
Kuhn,  Charles  H.,  28,  Boston. 
Lawrence,  Lemuel  P.,  26,  Boston;  later  8th  Battery,  6  mos., 

1862, 

Lewis,  Augustus  B.,  20,  Medford;  later  Co.  K,  17th  Mass. 
Lord,  Lewis  0.,  19,  Medford. 
Loring,  Freeman  A.,  23,  Medford ;  d.  Medford. 
Manning,  James,  30,  Boston. 


346       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Mills,  Palemon  C.,  26,  Watertown;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  B, 

33d  Mass. ;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut. 
Morrison,  Isaac  T.,  40,  Medford;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  39th 

Mass. ;  d.  Feb.  23,  '65,  Salisbury,  N.  C. 
Palmer,  Edward  J.,  30,  Roxbury. 
Peak,  George  E.,  24,  Medford  I  wd.  Bull  Run. 
Pearson,  Jonas  M.,  20,  Newton. 
*Pierce,  Elisha  Nye,  30,  Medford;  wd.   July  21,    '61,  Bull 

Run ;  vide  Co.  F,  9  mos. 
Prouty,  William  N.,  18,  Medford. 
Ramsdell,   Emery   W.,   31,   Medford;   wd.   Bull   Run;   later 

Corp.,  Co.  C,  39th  Mass. ;  1910,  Medford. 
Reed,  Henry  F.,  42,  Medford;  en.  and  M.  I.  May  21,   '61; 

later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  1st  Cav. 
Richards,  Mandeville  F.,  22,  Medford;  wd.  Bull  Run;  k.  at 

a  fire,  Nov.  4,  '61,  Medford. 
Richardson,  Caleb  T.,  28,  Medford. 
Robinson,  Edwin  H.,  23,  Dedham. 
*Russell,  Charles,  26,  Medford;  vide  Co.  F,  9  mos. 
Russell,  Hubbard,  Jr.,  19,  Maiden ;  later  Co.  A,  44th  Mass. ; 

d.  June  18,  1908,  Maiden. 

Sawyer,  George,  21,  Medford;  later  Co.  C,  13th  Mass. 
Sherman,  Gilbert  B.,  22,  Medford ;  later  8th  Battery,  6  mos., 

1862;  also  Co.  I,  18th,  and  Co.  K,  32d  Mass. 
Smith,  Jones  L.,  25,  Woburn;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  19th 

Mass. 

Smith,  Joseph,  25,  Medford;  later  Co.  A,  1st  Cav. 
Taylor,  James  H.,  19,  Medford;  later  Co.  H,  23d  Mass. 
Teel,  George  E.,  18,  Medford;  dis.  June  8,   '61,  disa.;  1910, 

Falmouth. 

Thorpe,  Alfred  M.,  28,  Cambridge. 
Tufts,  Augustus,  45,  Medford;  later  Co.  B,  1st  Cav. 
Tupper,  George  F.,  24,  Chelsea. 
Turner,  James  H.  R.,  24,  Medford. 
Turner,  Samuel  H.,  23,  Medford;  en.  and  M.  I.  May  21,  '61; 

wd.  Bull  Run;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  39th  Mass.;  d.  March 

24,  1907. 
Usher,  James  F.,  22,  Medford;  dis.   May  13,    '61,   disa.;  d. 

Boston. 


COMPANY  F.  347 

COMPANY  F. 

(Wardwell  Tigers,  Boston ;  raised  specially  for  the  5th,  ihough  some 
what  affiliated  with  the  1st  Regt.,  M.  V.  M.  Unless  otherwise  stated, 
all  enlisted  April  19,  '61. ) 

CAPTAIN. 

David  K.  Wardwell,  36,  Boston ;  D.  of  C.,  April  18,  '61 ;  M. 
0.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  Co.  B,  22d  Mass. ;  also 
Major  and  Lieut. -colonel,  38th  Mass. ;  b.  1823,  Washing 
ton,  D.  C. ;  1846,  Sergt.,  Co.  F,  1st  M.  V.  Infty.,  Mexican 
War,  attached  to  staff  of  Gen'l  Franklin  Pierce;  d. 
Aug.  16,  1908,  Tombstone,  Arizona. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

Jacob  Henry  Sleeper,  22,  Boston;  D.  of  C.,  April  18,  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment;  later  1st  Lieut.,  1st  Battery;  also 
Captain,  10th  Battery;  Brvt.-major,  Dec.  2,  '64. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

George  G.  Stoddard,  25,  Brookline ;  D.  of  C.,  April  18,  '61 ; 
M.  0.  with  regiment. 

THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

Horace  P.  Williams,  25,  Brookline;  D.  of  C.,  April  18,  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  22d  Mass. ;  also 
commissioned  Major,  56th  Mass.,  not  mustered. 

FOURTH   LIEUTENANT. 

Horatio  N.  Hubbard;  D.  of  C.,  April  18,  '61;  M.  0.  with 
regiment;  by  Higginson  he  is  made-  1st  Lieut.,  31st 
Mass.,  but  no  record  of  the  same  is  carried  on  the  regi 
mental  roll. 


348       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

SERGEANTS, 

Frederick  K.  Field  (1st),  25,  Xorthfield;  later  1st  Lieut,  and 
Captain,  Co.  B?  22d  Mass.;  also  Captain,  128th  U.  S. 
Colored  Troops. 

James  W.  R.  Hill,  34,  Boston. 

Calvin  S.  Mixter,  29,  Boston;  appointed  Sergt.  from  Corp., 
June  2,  '61;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  22d  Mass.;  also  1st 
Lieut.,  37th  U.  S.  Colored  Troops ;  1910,  Maiden. 

Dominions  J.  Wardwell,  23,  Stoneham;  dis.  June  2,  '61,  disa. 

Charles  W.  Cassebourne,  28,  Boston;  k.  Bull  Run,  July  21,  '61. 

CORPORALS. 

Samuel  Richards,  27,  Stoneham. 

Solomon  Low,  34,  Boston. 

Samuel  W.  Tuck,  30,  Boston;  appointed  June  2,  '61;  later 
1st  Sergt.,  2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  B,  22d  Mass. ;  d.  Man 
chester. 

Stephen  Brendal,  34,  Boston;  appointed  June  10,  '61;  later 
Co.  M,  3d  Cav. ;  trans,  to  V.  R.  C. 

MUSICIANS. 

William  S.  Bean,  29,  Stoneham. 

James  H.  Newell,  29,  Lowell ;  later  Co.  E,  39th  Mass. ;  d.  Jan. 
4,  1903,  Jamaica  Plain. 

PRIVATES. 

Beal,  James  A.,  26,  Stoneham  ;  later  Co.  B,  22d  Mass. ;  also 
Co.  B,  24th  Mass. 

Brady,  John  G.,  28,  Lowell;  later  Co.  G,  19th  Mass. 

Coleman,  Lewis  E.  J.,  28,  Boston ;  dis.  June  8,  '61,  disa. ; 
later  Co.  K,  19th  Mass. 

Connolly,  Hugh,  18,   Stoneham. 

Cook,  John,  18,  Boston. 

Courtney,  Daniel  J.,  18,  Boston;  later  member  of  non-com 
missioned  staff,  36th  U.  S.  Colored  Troops,  formerly  2d 
N.  C.  Regiment ;  d.  Jan.  11,  1905,  Boston. 


COMPANY  F.  349 

Crowley,  Daniel,  20,  Boston;  later  Mus.,  Co.  E,  39th  Mass. 
Danforth,  Joseph  C.,  19,  Boston;  later  Corp.,  Co.  D,  30th 

Mass. 

Dodge,  Charles  S.,  19,  Boston;  later  Co.  C,  32d  Mass. 
Dodge,  John  S.,  21,  Boston ;  later  as  Charles  E.  Leslie,  Co.  F, 

20th  Mass. 
Emerson,  Albert  O.,  18,  Stoneham;  later  Co.  B,  22d  Mass.; 

trans,  to  Co.  L,  32d  Mass. 
Ferguson,  David,  33,  Boston;  later  1st   Sergt.,  Co.  K,  22d 

Mass. 

Fitzpatrick,  Daniel,  18,  Boston ;  later  Co.  B,  1st  Cav. 
Foley,  Patrick  W.,  27,  Stoneham. 
Ford,  Henry  W.,  22,  Boston;  later  Co.  E,  llth  Mass. 
Forest.  Moses,  20,  Stoneham. 
Gaitley,  Patrick,  19,  Stoneham. 

Gile,  Phinando  N.,  20,  Boston;  dis.  June  2,   '61,  disa, 
Gorham,  Charles  E.,  19,  Boston;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  E.  22d 

Mass. 

Hanham,  William  C.,  19,  Boston;  later  Co.  A,  30th  Mass. 
Harvey,  James  A.,  19,  Boston ;  later  9th  Battery. 
Hatch,*  Edward  K.,  27,  Boston;  later  Co.  E,  4th "Maine. 
Healey,  Patrick  G.,  20,  Boston. 
Hettler,  Thomas,  20,  Boston;  en.  June  20,  '61  •  M.  I.  July  4, 

TO  ;  k.  Bull  Run,  July  21,   '61. 

Hill,  Joseph  C.,  24,  Boston;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  22d  Mass. 
Hoyt,   David   W.,   19,   Amesbury;   later   Sergt,,   Co.   B,   22d 

.Mass.;  also  Sergt,,  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. 
Lamos,  Charles  T.,  18,  Boston ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  22d  Mass. 
Leighton,  Nehemiah,  18,  Boston ;  later  llth  Battery,  9  mos., 

1862. 
Low,  Isaac  M.,  32,  Boston;  prisoner,  Bull  Run;  M.  0.  June 

18,  '62 ;  Schouler  says  k.,  Bull  Run ;  S.  H.  rolls  carry  him 

as  Isaac  Lord  in  Co.  H,  2d  Cav. 
May,  William  0.,  25,  Boston;  later  Co.  D,  48th  Mass. 
McDavitt,  William,  19,  Boston;  later  as  Wm.  M.,  Sergt.,  Co. 

K,  3.9th  Mass. 
McMahon,  Michael,  19,  Boston;  no  record  of  M.  0.  in  Boston 

or  Washington. 
McSweeney,  Bernard,  19,  Cambridge ;  prisoner  at  Bull  Run  ; 

M.  O.  June  24,  '62. 
Mooney,  James,  23,  Haverhill. 


350       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Morris,  George  O.,  18,  Boston ;  later  Co.  K,  22d  Mass. ;  trans. 
V.  R.  C. 

Morse,  George  E.,  20,  Boston;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G,  19th  Mass. 

Nichols,  Robert  P.,  25,  Boston. 

O'Hara,  Stephen,  20,  Stoneham;  pris,,  Bull  Run;  dis.  Dee.  11, 
'61 ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  C,  50th  Mass. 

Reed,  James  H.,  19,  Charlestown ;  later  Co.  I,  30th  Mass. ;  also 
4th  Unattached  Company,  90  days,  1864. 

Richardson,  William  H.,  18,  Stoneham ;  d.  July  7,  '61,  from 
accidental  discharge  of  pistol  held  by  himself,  June  23, 
'61,  Alexandria,  Va. 

Riley,  Hugh  F.,  18,  Boston. 

Roby,  George  W.,  30,  Lowell;  later  1st  Sergt.  and  1st  Lieut., 
Co.  B,  22d  Mass. 

Ryan,  William  P.,  20,  Boston;  later  Co.  I,  9th  Mass. 

Schneider,  Jacob,  18,  Roxbury;  later  Co.  C,  20th  Mass.;  k. 
Sept.  17,  '62,  Antietam,  Md. 

Smith,  Sanford  A.,  18,  Stoneham ;  dis.  June  8,  '61 ;  disa. ; 
later  V.  R.  C. 

Snow,  Henry,  21,  Boston. 

Spinney,  Robert  M.,  22,  Boston;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  13th  N. 
H. ;  also  2d  and  1st  Lieut,  and  Bvt.-captain,  U.  S.  Col 
ored  Troops;  1910,  Medford. 

Stetson,  Joseph,  18,  Boston ;  later  Co.  B,  22d  Mass. 

Stewart,  Charles  W.,  20,  Boston;  dis.   June  8,  '61,  disa. 

Sullivan,  Bartholomew,  31,  Boston;  sentenced  by  court  mar 
tial  to  jail  until  Aug.  1,  '61,  and  to  forfeit  all  pay;  dis 
honorably  discharged  Aug.  1,  '61. 

Taylor,  Owen,  21,  Marlboro;  later  Co.  E,  28th  Mass. 

Wallace,  Henry  D.,  20,  Stoneham;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  8th 
M.  V.  M.,  9  mos.,  1862. 

Wardwell,  Cyrus  T.,  38,  Stoneham;  pris.,  Bull  Run;  M.  0 
June  24,  '62;  1910,  Oxford,  Me. 

Warren,  Joseph  G.,  21,  Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  I,  32d 
Mass.;  trans.  V.  R.  C. ;  1910,  Somerville. 

Warren,  Thomas  A.,  21,  Boston;  later  1st  Sergt.,  2d  and  1st 
Lieut.,  Co.  F,  30th  Mass. 

White,  Wallace  B.,  23,  Boston;  dis.  June  2,   '61,  disa, 

Wiggin,  Isaac  H.,  20,  Boston. 

Wilcutt,  Wm.  C.,  28,  Stoneham;  deserted;  N.  F.  R.  in  the 
5th ;  later  Co.  E,  39th,  and  Co.  K,  59th  Mass.,  from  both 
of  which  he  deserted. 


COMPANY  G.  351 

Williams,  Edward  J..  18,  Roxbury ;  pris..  Bull  Run;  M.  0. 

Jan.  11,   '62;  later  Co.  A,  1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. 
Wilson,  John,  26,  Boston;  no  record  of  M.  0. 
Wilson,  William  H.,   18.  Boston. 
Yeager,  Charles  H.,   20,  Boston. 

COMPANY  G. 

(Concord   Artillery,   Co.    A    [before    the   war],    5th    Regt.,    M.    V.    M. 
Unless    otherwise   stated,   all   enlisted    April    19,    '61.) 

*Served  in   9   months'   term.     tServed   in   100   davs'   term. 


CAPTAIN. 

George  L.  Prescott,  31,  Concord;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,  '61;  M. 
0.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  Co.  B.  32d  Mass. ; 
prom.  Lieut.-colonel  and  Colonel ;  d.  June  19,  '64,  from 
wds,  rec'd  the  day  before  in  front  of  Petersburg;  Bvt. 
Brig-general. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

Joseph  Derby,  Jr.,  40,  Concord;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,  '61;  M.  0. 
with  regiment ;  1910,  Concord. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Humphrey  II.  Buttrick.  35,  Concord;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,  '61; 
later  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. ;  also  1st  Lieut,  and 
Captain,  59th  Mass. ;  d.  July  20,  1893,  Concord. 


THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

Charles  Bowers,  46,  Concord;  D.  of  C.,  April  30,   '61;  later 
1st  Sergt.  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain,  Co.  G,  32d  Mass. 


SERGEANTS. 

William  S.  Rice   (1st),  28,  Concord;  pris..  Bull  Run;  M.  0. 
June  18,  '62. 


352       FIFTH  REGIMENT;  M.  V.  M.,  THKEE  MONTHS. 

George  F.  Hall,  25,  Concord;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.   G,  47th 

Mass. ;  d.  Nov.  29,  1909,  Concord. 
Cyrus  Hosmer,   26,   Concord;  pris.,  Bull  Run;  M.  0.  June 

24,    '62. 
George   W.    Lauriat,    21,    Concord;    appointed   from    Corp., 

June  22,  '61 ;  later  1st  Sergt,,  Co.  G,  32d  Mass. ;  2d  and 

1st  Lieut.,  Captain;  Brvt.-major,  April  9,   '65;  b.  1839; 

d.  April  26,  1891,  Concord. 


CORPORALS. 

Stephen  II.  Reynolds,  26,  Concord;  later  Sergt.,  1st  Battery; 

1910,  Hyde  Park. 
Francis  M.  Gregory,  24,  Concord;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  G, 

47th  Mass. 
George   Buttrick,    24,    Concord;    later    Corp.,    Co.    G,     47th 

Mass. ;  also  Capt.,  75th  U.  S.  Colored  Troops. 
Samuel  S.  Wood,  26,  Concord ;  appointed  June  22,  '61. 


PRIVATES. 

Ball,  George  H.,  26,  Concord;  later  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. 

Ball,  Warren  B.,  31,  Concord;  later  Corp.,  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. 

Bates,  William  C.,  b.  Hanover,  May  25,  1838;  22,  Boston; 
pris.,  Bull  Run;  M.  O.  June  24,  '62.  Leaving  Hanover 
Academy  at  16,  his  subsequent  education  was  self-ac 
quired  ;  resuming  the  activities  of  life,  he  entered  busi 
ness,  was  for  some  time  in  the  City  Council  of  Newton; 
1910,  insurance,  Boston,  with  residence,  Newton;  life 
member  Boston's  Y.  M.  C.  IT.,  of  Newton's  Post,  G.  A. 
R.,  and  of  several  other  educational,  historical,  social 
and  scientific  clubs;  d.  Nov.  4,  1910,  Newton. 

Bowers,  William,  21,  Concord;  printer,  S. ;  later  Co.  K, 
44th  Mass. 

Bracket*,  •  Edward  J.,  19,  Waltham;  later  Corp.,  Co.  D,  35th 
Mass. 

Brown,  Azro  D.,  24,  Concord;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  40th  Mass. 

Brown,  John,  2d,  24,  Concord;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G,  47tli 
Mass.;  1910,  Concord. 

Brown,  William  A.,  22r  Concord;  later  Co.  B,  40th  Mass. 


COMPANY  G.  353 

Buttrick,    Francis,    34,    Concord ;    later    Co.    13,    32d    Mass. ; 

el.  July  28,   '63,  from  wds.  rec'd  at  Gettysburg. 
Carter,   James   W.,    19,    Concord;   later   Sergt.,   Co.   G,    17th 

Mass.;  1910,  Concord. 

Clapp,   William  M.,  26,  Concord;  1910,  Keene,  X.    II. 
Clark,   Richard   R.,    32,   Concord;   later   Co.   C,   59th    Mass.; 

d.  June  17,  '64,  Annapolis.,  Md. 
tCormick,  Peter,  Jr.,  19,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July 

4.  '61  ;  vide  Co.  G,  100  days. 
Dalton,  Jeremiah,  Jr.,  19.  Braintree ;  later  Co.  C,  22d  Mass. ; 

k.  June  27,   '62,  Gaines'  Mills,  Va. 

Dean,  Joseph  G..  41,  Concord;  later  Co.  K,  39th  Mass. 
Deering,  Eugene   M.,   18,   Lincoln;   later  Corp.,   Co.    I,   30th 

Mass.;  also  Co.  D,  8th  M.  V.  M.,  100  days,  1864;  dis.  to 

re-en,  as  Corp.,  Co.  C,  30th  Mass. ;  d.  Lincoln. 
Doyle,  Thomas,  22,  Concord;  later  Co.  D,   1st  Cav. 
Farmer,  Henry,  26,  Concord. 

Farrar,  Levi  11,  20,  Concord ;  later  Co.  C,  47th  Mass. 
Fit/patrick,  Francis  F.,  21,  Boston. 
Garty,  James.  38,  Concord. 
Goodwin,  James   W.,    19.  Woburn;  en.  June   16,    '61,   M.   I. 

July  4,   '61;  later  Corp.,  6th  Battery;  also  Co.  D,  llth 

Mass. ;  d.   of  wds.  July  18,    '63,  Baltimore,   Md. 
Gray,  William  13..  18,  Acton;  later  Co.  E,  24th  Mass.;  also 

1st  Lieut.,  1st  V.  S.  Colored  Troops. 
Hatch,  David  G.,  21,  Waltham;  later  Co.  II,  16th  Mass.;  k. 

July  2,   '63,  Gettysburg. 

Heald,  Timothy  F.,   31,   Concord;  insane  in  hospital,  Alex 
andria,  Va.,  at  M.  O. ;  later  Co.  II,  1st  Mass, 
Hooper,   Thomas  M.,   28,   Woburn;   en.  June   16,    '61,   M.   I. 

July  4,   '61. 
Ilovey,  Mason  M.,  23,  Woburn;  en.  June  16,   '61,  M.  I.  July 

4,  '61. 
Jeffards,  Jonathan  F.,  23,  Woburn;  en.  June  16,    '61,  M.  I. 

July  4,   '61  ;  later  Co.  G,  1st  H.  Arty. 
Johnson,  Albert  X.,  19,  Concord;  dis.  June  8,  '61,  disa. 
Johnson,  Charles  A.,  21,  Waltham. 

Johnson.  Henry,  30,  Concord  ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. 
Leathe,  Josiah,  Jr.,  19,  Woburn;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61  ;  later  Co.  F,  32d  Mass. 
23 


354       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Livingston,  Benjamin  T.,  34,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I. 
July  4,  '61;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  C,  45th  Mass.;  b.  New 
Boston,  N.  H.;  d.  March  3,  1902,  S.  H.,  Chelsea;  bur. 
Mt.  Vernon,  X.  H. 


John  Brown  (G). 
Asa  Melvin  (G). 


Jos.  M.  Parsons  (A). 
Lieut.  Jos.  Derby  (G). 


Loring,  Benjamin  J.,  Jr.,  38,  Weymouth ;  later  1st  Sergt., 
1st  Batt,,  H.  Arty.;  b.  Wevmouth.  April  27,  1842;  prom 
inent  in  Free  Masonry,  Red  Men,  G.  A.  R. ;  carpenter 
and  builder,  Braintree ;  1910,  Boston. 

Lyons,  John  E.,  21,  Lunenburg;  later  Co.  H,  23d  Mass. ;  1910, 
Luneuburg1. 


COMPANY  G.  355 

Maxfield,  John  M..  26,  Woburn;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61. 
Melvin,  Asa,  26,  Concord;  later  Co.  K,  1st  H.  Arty.;  k.  June 

16,  '64,  Petersburg,  Va. 

Messer,  George  E.,  25,  Concord;  d.  Jan.  17,  1909,  Concord. 
Mulliken,  Charles  F.,  23,  Concord ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July 

4,    '61;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  22d  Mass.;  k.  July  1,   '62, 

Malvern  Hill. 

Nealey,  Charles,  30,  Concord. 
*0sborne,  Ira  J.,  20,  Ashby;  later  IT.  S.  Signal  Corps;  vide 

Co.  K,  9  mos. 
Pemberton,  Robert,  27,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4. 

'61;  wd.  shoulder,  Bull  Run;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  32tl 

Mass. ;  d.  Woburn. 
Phelps,  Edward  F.,  28,  Concord ;  later  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. ;  d. 

Nov.  29,  1908,  Concord. 

Puffer,  Charles,  37,  Concord;  later  Co.  E,  26th  Mass. 
Puffer,  John  S.,  23,  Concord;  later  Co.  E,  26th  Mass.;  trans. 

V.  R.  C. ;  d.  Nov.  28,  1898,  Concord. 
Reynolds,  Edward  W.,  23,  Concord;  1910,  Concord. 
Robbins,  Elbridge,  Jr.,  26,  Concord;  1910,  Acton. 
Robbins,  Joseph  N.,  26,  Acton;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  6th  M.  V. 

M.,  9  mos.,  1862. 

Rogers,  John  S.,  24,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4,  '61. 
Sampson,  Lewis  T.,  32,  Concord. 
Sherman,   George  E.,  21,  Lincoln;  later  Sergt.,   Co.   M,  1st 

Cav. ;  trans,  to  Co.  M,  4th  Cav. ;  1910,  Lincoln. 
Smith,  John  W.,  23,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4,  '61. 
Souther,  George  G.,  22,  Quincy;  later  Co.  C,  24th  Mass. 
Stevenson,  Thomas  G.,  18,  Carlisle;  dis.  June  8,   '61,  disa.; 

later  Co.  C,  16th  Mass. 
Taylor,  Warren  F.,  23,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61 ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  32d  Mass. ;  1910,  Woburn. 
Tidd,  John  E.,  21,  Woburn;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4,  '61; 

later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  32d  Mass.;  prom.  2d,  1st  Lieut. 

and  Captain ;  d.  Dec.  3,  1906,  Woburn. 
Ware,  George,  22,  Boston  ;  dis.  June  29,  '61,  disa. 
Warland,  Thomas  F.,  31,  Woburn. 
Watts,  Horatio  C.,  34,  Concord;  Sergt,  till  June  26,  '61,  when 

at  his   own  request  he   was   reduced  to  the   ranks ;   d. 

March  29,  1899,  Hopkinton. 


356       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Webb,  Edward  F.,  35,  Weymouth ;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  E, 

26th  Mass. 

Wellington,  Lowell,  Jr.,  25,  Waltham;  1910,  Waltham. 
Wheeler,   Caleb  II.,  18,  Concord;  later  Sergt.,   Co.  G,  47th 

Mass.;  d.   Sept,  4,  1900,  Concord. 
Wheeler,  Edward  S.,  18,  Concord;  pris.,  Bull  Rim,  July  21, 

'61  ;  M.  O.  June  18,  '62;  later  Corp.,  Co.  E,  47th  Mass.; 

b.  June  17,  1844,  Concord;  1903,  Lowell. 
Wheeler,  Henry  L.,  34,  Concord;  pris..  Bull  Run  ;  M.  0.  June 

18,  '62;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. 
Wheeler,  Joseph,  22,  Lincoln. 
Whitney,  George  T.,  23,  Harvard. 
Whittier,  Wm.  P.,  25,  Sanbornton,  X.  II.;  later  Co.  D,  1st 

Cav. 

Winn,  Joseph  E.,  20,  Concord ;  later  Corp.,  Co.  G,  47th  Mass. 
Wright,  Eugene,  36,  Concord. 
Wyman,  Joseph  S.,  34,  Woburn ;  en.  June  16,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61  ;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  B,  32d  Mass.;  prom.  1st  Lieut. 

and  Captain;  d.  AVoburn. 


COMPANY  H. 

(Salem    City    Guards,    Co.    IT,    7th    Regt,,    M.    V.    M.      Unless    other 
wise    stated,    all    enlisted    April    19,    '61.) 


CAPTAIN. 

Henry  F.  Danforth,  24,  Salem;  D.  of  C.,  March  15,  '61  ;  M. 
O.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  40th  Mass. ;  lat.  add., 
388  Tremont  St.,  Boston. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

Kirk  Stark,  27,  So.  Danvers ;  D.  of  C.,  March  15,  '61  ;  M.  O. 
with  regiment ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  24th  Mass. 


SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

William  F.  Sumner,  40,  So.  Danvers ;  D.  of  C.,  March  15, 
'61;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  1910,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  H.  357 

THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

George  H.  Wiley,  22,  So.  Danvers .;  D.  of  C.,  Mar.  15,  '61; 
M.  0.  with  regiment ;  later  2d  Lieut.,  35th  Mass. ;  trans. 
Co.  A,  39th  Mass. ;  d.  May  19,  1910,  Boston. 

FOURTH    LIEUTENANT. 

John  E.  Stone,  24,  So.  Danvers;  D.  of  C.,  March  15,  '61;  M. 
0.  with  regiment. 

SERGEANTS. 

George  S.  Peach   (1st),  22.  Salem;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  24th 

Mass. 
Benj.  F.  Pickering,  37,  Salem;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  7th  M.  V. 

M.,  6  mos.,  1862;  also  Sergt.,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  100  days, 

1864;  d.  1903,  Salem. 
John  Pollock,  37,  Salem;   appointed  July  1,    '61;  later    2d 

Lieut.,  Co.  D,  40th  Mass. ;  prom.  1st  Lieut.,  Capt.,  Major 

and  Lieut. -colonel ;  1910,  Salem. 
Joseph    B.  Nay,  19,  Salem;  appointed    July  1,   '61. 

CORPORALS. 

John  A.  Sumner,  20,  So.  Danvers ;  1910,  Peabody. 

William  Toby,  21,  Salem. 

Peter  A.  Ramsdeli,  24,  Salem;  appointed    July  1,  '61;  later 

Co.  II,  3d  H.  Arty. 
Elbridge  II.   Guilford,   19,    Salem;   appointed    July   3,    '61; 

later   as   "Gilford;"    Sergt.,    Co.   C,    24th    Mass.;    1910, 

Danvers. 

MUSICIAN. 

Joseph  Anthony,  21,  Salem;  later  Co.  H,  1st  Batt.,  llth  U. 
S.  Infty.,  as  "Jos.  II.;"  d.  July  11,  1895,  S.  II..  Chelsea. 


PRIVATES. 

Beckford,  William  F.,  23.  Danvers;  later  Co.  D,  1st  H.  Arty.; 
lat.  add.,  Beverly, 


358      FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Brown,    George   A.,    25,    Salem;    later    Corp.,    Co.   H,    19th 

Mass. ;  d.    Dec.  16,  '62,  from  wds.,  Frederieksburg,  Va. 
Bulger,  James,  20,  Salem;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  40th  Mass. 
Burg,  William  R.,  27,  Salem;  later  Co.  B,  22d  Mass. 
Chase,  Charles  W.,  20,  Danvers ;  later  Co.  D,  40th  Mass. 
Clark,  Edward  A.,  32,  Salem;  later  Co.  H,  29th  Mass. 
Clark,   Sylvester,   20,   Salem;   later  Co.   D,   24th   Mass.;   k. 

Sept.   6,    '62,  Washington,   N.   C. 
Dow,  George  W.,  30,  Salem;  pris.,  Bull  Run,  July  21,   '61; 

M.  0.  June  24,  '62. 
Eaton,  Alpheus,  21,  Salem. 

Edwards,  John  L.,  26,  Salem;  later   4th  Battery. 
Estes,  John  G.,  23,  So.  Danvers;  later  Co.  B,  23d  Mass. 
Farrell,   William,   21,   Salem;   wd.,  Bull  Run;  later   Co.  F, 

1st  Cav. 

Ferguson,  Samuel  A.,  21,  Salem;  later   Co.  D,  1st  H.  Arty. 
Gilford,  David  A.,   36,   Danvers;  later    Corp.,  Co.   C,  24th 

Mass. ;  trans.,  V.  R.  C. 

Gilford,  William  F.,  21,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  Sept.  — ,  1861,  Dan 
vers. 

Grover,  James,  Jr.,  20,  Salem:  dis.    June  29,  '61,  disa. 
Hackett,  Harrison,  21,  Salem ;  later    Co.  F,  3d  H.  Arty. 
Hart,  George  O.,  21,  So.  Danvers ;  later   Co.  D,  1st  H.  Arty. 
Hibbard,  Curtis  A.,  24,  Salem;  later    2d  Lieut.,  Co.  G,  9th 

Vermont  Infty. 
Hines,  John  M.,  21,  Danvers ;  later    Co.  D,  1st  H.  Arty. ;  d. 

before  1893. 
Hoyt,    John  A.,  28,  Salem ;    later    Corp.,    4th    Battery ;     d. 

*  1894,  Wenham. 
Jones,  Samuel,  24,  Gloucester. 

Kehew,  Francis  A.,  25,  Salem ;  later  Sergt.,  -Co.  B,  24th  Mass, 
Kehew,  George,  19,  Salem ;  later  Co.  B,  24th  Mass. 
Kelley,  Edward,  26,  Danvers;  later    Sergt.,  Co.  H,  1st  Cav. 
Kelley,  James  W.,  28,  So.  Danvers ;  later   Co.  A,  23d  Mass. ; 

k.  May  16,  '64,  Drewry's  Bluff,  Va. 

Kelley,  Thomas  B.,  19,  So.  Danvers;  later   Co.  A,  23d  Mass. 
Kimball,  William  L.,  28,  Salem ;  later  Co.  H,  1st  Cav. ;  also 

Co.  A,  3d  H.  Arty. 

Leach,  Harris,  24,  Salem;  later    Co.  A,  30th  Mass. 
Lee,  John  W.,   19,  Danvers;  dis.  May  22,   '61,  disa.;  later 

Co.  D,  1st  H.  Arty. ;  also  Co.  H,  3d  H.  Arty. ;  trans.  U. 

S.  Navy;  d.  March  10,  1894,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  H.  359 

umehan,  Dennis,  19,   Salem;   later    Corp.,  Co.  H,   1st  Cav. 

Lowe,  James   W.,   19,   Danvers. 

Marshall,  Charles  G,,  20,  So.  Danvers;  dis.  May  31,  '61,  disa.; 

later    Co.   D,   1st  H.   Arty. 
McDuffie,  Hugh,  26,   Salem;  Sergt    till  July  1,   '61,  when 

at  his  own  request   he  was  reduced  to  the  ranks ;  later 

Co.  H,  1st  Cav. 
McFarland,   Charles,   23,    Salem;   wd.,   Bull   Run;   later  TL 

S.  Xavy. 

Merrill,  Henry  O.,  20,   So.  Danvers. 
Millett,  Benjamin  H.,   21,   So.   Danvers;   later    Corp.,   24th 

Mass.;  1910,  Salem. 
Murphy,  Thomas  G.,  24,  So.  Danvers;  later    Sergt.,  Co.  D, 

40th  Mass. 
Parker,  Oliver,  20,  So.  Danvers;  later  Co.  B,  17th  Mass.;  d. 

Oct.  3,  '64,  Newbern,  N.  C. 
Parsons,  Cyrus,  41,   Salem ;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  B,  7th  M. 

V.  M.,  6  mos.,  1862. 
Peach,  William,  Jr.,  22,  Salem ;  Sergt.   till  June  3,  '61,  when 

at  his  own  request  he  was  reduced  to  the  ranks ;  later 

Co.  D,  40th  Mass. 
Perkins,  Joseph  N.,  30,  Salem. 

Pierce,  David  II.,  21,  So.  Danvers;  later   Co.  E,  2d  H.  Arty. 
Quinn,  John,  24,  Salem;  later   Co.  H,  1st  Cav. 
Richardson,  Henry  H.,  20,  Danvers;  later    Co.  A,  23d  Mass. 
Richardson,   William    H.,    22,    Danvers;   later     Co.    A,    23d 

Mass. ;  d.  1903,  Danvers. 
Riggs,  Edgar  M.,  24,  Danvers;  later    Jst  Sergt.,  Co.  F,  35th 

Mass. ;  prom.  2d  Lieut. 
Shanley,  William,  19,  Salem;  pris.,  Bull  Run;  dis.  June  18, 

'62;  later    Co.  H,  3d  H.  Arty. 
Teague,  William  H.,  23,  Salem; 'later  Co.  C,  1st  Batt,  H. 

Arty. 

Thompson,  George  A.,  20,  Salem;  k.,  Bull  Run,  July  21,  '61. 
Thompson,  John  N.,  30,  Danvers;  later    Co.  B,  19th  Mass.; 

d.  Sept.  17,   '62,  Ft.  Ellsworth,  Va. 
Trask,  Henry,  19,  Salem. 
Very,  Herbert  W.,  22,  So.  Danvers;  later  Corp.,  Co.  A,  23d 

Mass.;    d.    March    10,    1903,   Worcester. 
Webster,  George,  23,  So.  Danvers. 
White,  Henry  F.,  21,  Salem. 
White,   Thomas,   22,   Salem. 


360       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Wiley,  Samuel,  19,  So.  Danvers ;  later    Sergt.,  Co.  A,  39th 

Mass. 
Williams,  Samuel  W.,  30,  So.  Danvers ;  later  1st  Co.,  S.  S., 

with   15th  Mass. 

Williams,  William  D.,  21,  Salem;  later   4th  Battery. 
Wilson,  Jaeob  II.,  25,  Salem;  later  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  D,  40th 

Mass. ;  prom.  2d  Lieut. 


1  COMPANY  I. 

(Somerville  Light    Infantry,  Co.   B    [before  the  war],   5th   Regt.,  M. 
V.    M.    Unless    otherwise    stated,    all    enlisted    April    19,    '61. ) 
*Served  in    9   months'    term,      t Served   in    100    days'   term. 


CAPTAIN. 

George  0.  Brastow,  49,  Somerville;  R.  R.  agent,  M. ;  D.  of 
C.,  July  29,  1859;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  later  Major 
and  Paymaster,  U.  S.  Volunteers;  b.  Sept.  8,  1811, 
Wrentham ;  twice  Mayor,  Somerville ;  in  both  branches 
of  Legislature,  Pres.  of  Senate,  1868-69;  d.  Nov.  20, 
1878,  Somerville. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

William  E.  Robinson,  28,  Somerville;  merchant,  M. ;  D.  of 
C.,  Feb.  25,  1856;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  dead. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Frederick  R.  Kinsley,  31,  Somerville;  brick-maker,  S. ;  D.  of 
C.,  April  20,  '61 ;  M.  O.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain, 
Co.  E,  39th  Mass. ;  though  prom.  Major  and  Colonel,  he 
was  not  mustered;  1910,  Cheever,  N.  H. 


SERGEANTS. 

*Walter  C.  Bailey   (1st),  26,  Somerville;  engraver,  S. ;  vide 
Co.  B,  9  mos. 


COMPANY  I.  361 

*John  Harrington,  28,  Somerville ;  mechanic,  S. ;  vide  Co. 
B,  9  mos. 

William  R.  Corlew,  21,  Somerville ;  clerk,  S. ;  later  2d  Lieut., 
Co.  II,  29th  Mass..;  1910,  Somerville. 

John  C.  Watson,  22,  Somerville;  broker,  S. :  1910,  68  Devon 
shire  St.,  Boston. 

.    CORPORALS. 

*Henry  H.   Robinson,   21,    Somerville;   gentleman,    S. ;   vide 

Co.  B,  9  mos. 
*  James  E.   Paul,   30,   Somerville ;   builder,   S. ;   vide   Co.   B, 

9  mos.;  d.  May  11,1896. 
Isaac    Barker,   Jr.,    36,    Somerville ;   clerk,    S. ;   d.    Mar.    25, 

1898,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  x.  74-5-2. 
*William  T.  Eustis,  3d,  26,  Boston  ;  merchant,  S. ;  prisoner, 

July  21,  '61,  Bull  Run;  paroled  June,  '62;  vide  F.  &  S., 

9  mos. 

MUSICIAN. 

Sidney  S.  Whiting,  50,  Boston ;  machinist,  M. ;  later  Co.  K, 
22d  Mass. 

PRIVATES. 

Adams,   Albion,   35,   Somerville ;   grocer,   M. ;   d.   1890,   Rox- 

bury. 
Adams,  John,  25,  Somerville;  carpenter,  S. ;  wd.,  Bull  Run; 

later  Sergt.,  Co.  F,  28th  Maine;  d.  1906,  Boston. 
Andrews,  George  II.,  19,  Charlestown;  milkman,  S. ;  later  8th 

Battery,   6  mos.,   1862. 

Andrews,  John  B.,  25,  Charlestown ;  painter,  S. 
Andrews,  Joseph  II.,  25,  Charlestown ;  painter,  S. ;  lat.  add., 

Charlestown. 

Atwood,  Hawes,  25,  Boston ;  none,  S. 
Bennett,  Edwin  C.,  21,  Somerville;  clerk,  S. ;  later  2d  Lieut., 

Co.  G,  22d  Mass.;  prom.  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain;  Bvt.- 

major  and  Lieut. -colonel ;  12  years  Asst.  Postmaster,  St. 

Louis,  Mo. ;  d.  Feb.  27,  1 904,' Somerville,  ae.  64-0-24. 


362       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Binney,  Henry  M.,  30,  Somerville ;  clerk,  M. ;  wd.,  Bull  Run; 

later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  D,  10th  Maine ;  prom.  1st  Lieut. ;  also 

Co.   B,   28th   Mass. ;  prom.   1st  Lieut,   and   Captain ;  b. 

Feb.    24,    1835,    Cambridge ;    accountant    and   penman ; 

1881-2,  Somerville  Common  Council ;  d.  Nov.  13,  1907,  ae. 

76  years. 
Bird,  Warren  A.,  23,   Somerville ;  clerk,  S. ;  b.  Cambridge, 

Oct.    14,    1837 ;    business,    Natick ;    1883-5,    Selectman ; 

1876-77,  Legislature ;  d.  Sept.  9, 1907,  Waverley  Hospital. 
Bonner,  Charles  D.,  18,  Somerville ;  clerk,  S. 
Brackett,   Edward,    23,   Somerville;    student,   S. 
Brown,  William  P.,  clerk;  20,  Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I. 

July  4,  '61;  later  Co.  K,  39th;  b.  Durham,  Novia  Scotia, 

Aug.  20,  1840;  grocer  before  and  after  the  war;  1872- 

1890,  manufacturing;  clerk,  State  Board  of  Health. 
Buckingham,   Lynde   W.,   21,   Somerville;   Q.   M.   Sergt.   till 

June  28,  when  at  his  owTn  request  he  was  reduced  to  the 

ranks;  wd.  leg,  Bull  Run. 
Carr,  William  M.,  21,  Chelsea ;  rope-maker,  M. ;  later  Corp., 

Co.  E,  39th  Mass. 
Caswell,  Albert,  24,  Somerville ;  carpenter,  S. ;  d.  Somerville, 

April  12,  1894,  a?.  58-7-4. 
Crosby,  Elkanah,  23,  Somerville ;  milkman,  S. ;  later  Sergt., 

Co.  E,  39th  Mass.;  1910,  Somerville. 
Davis,  John  E.,  19,  Somerville;  brick-maker,  S.;  later  Sergt., 

Co.  E,  24th  Mass. 
Eaton,  William  B.,  21,  Boston;  waiter,  S. ;  d.  April  13,  1895, 

Sullivan,  Me.,  a?.  50-3. 
Emery,  Edward  C.  T.,  21,  Boston ;  printer,  S. ;  later  Co.  A, 

30th  Mass. ;  trans,  to  3d  La.  Native  Guard. 
Eustis,  Humphrey  E.,  19,  Boston;  grocer,  S. 
Garland,  Benjamin  F.,   27,   Cambridge;   carpenter,   S. 
Gibson,  AVilliam  T.,  20,  Cambridge;  painter,  S. ;  d.  Jan.  H, 

1904,  Cambridge,  a?.  64-5. 
Giles,  John  Frank,  21,  Cambridge ;  printer,  S. ;  later  Co.  L, 

and  Sergt. -major,  1st  H.  Arty. ;  b.  Jan.  30,  1840,  Somer 
ville;  1910,  So.  Sandwich. 
Giles,  Joseph  J.,  19,  Somerville ;  painter,  S. ;  later  1st  Lieut., 

Co.  E,  39th  Mass.;  b.  Mar.  24,  1842,  Somerville;  1891- 

92,  Legislature;  real  estate  and  insurance,   Somerville. 
*Glynn,  Thomas,  40,  Woburn ;   en.  June   13,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61 ;  later  Co.  B,  llth  Mass. ;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos. 


COMPANY  I.  363 

Grandy,  Henry  E.,  31,  Boston ;  merchant,  M. ;  d.  Feb.  13, 
1908,  Boston,  a?.  78-3-28. 

Hale,  Joseph,  Jr.,  22,  mariner,  S. ;  Somerville ;  later  private, 
Corp.,  Sergt.,  and  1st  Sergt.,  1st  and  2d  Batt.,  llth  U.  S. 
Infty. ;  2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  3d  U.  S.  Infty. ;  regimental  Ad 
jutant,  1872;  Captain,  1885;  d.  March  15,  1899,  from 
fever  contracted  in  Santiago  campaign. 

Hammond,  Henry  G.,  20,  Somerville;  driver,  S. ;  later  Corp., 
3d  Battery. 

Hannaford,  Edward  F.,  26,  Somerville;  harness-maker,  S. ; 
k.,  Bull  Run,  Va.,  July  21,  '61. 

Harris,  George  F.,  24,  Somerville ;  gentleman,  M. ;  later  Co. 
D,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  100  days,  1864. 

Hodgdon,  John  K.,  26,  Somerville;  builder,  S. ;  d.  July  29, 
1896,  Chelsea,  ae.  60-3. 

Hodgkins,  George  A.  S.,  21,  Charlestown ;  painter,  S. 

Hodsdon,  Alfred,  27,  Cambridge ;  mason,  S. ;  later  Co.  A, 
30th  Mass. ;  also  Captain  and  Major,  3d  La,  Vols. 

Hopkins,  James  R.,  25,  Somerville;  carver,  S. ;  1910,  Central 
Fire  Station,  Somerville. 

Howe,  Pliney  R.,  26,  Somerville ;  carpenter,  S. ;  later  2d 
Lieut,,  26th  Mass. 

Hyde,  Richard  J.,  19,  Somerville;  none,  S. ;  later  Co.  E,  39th 
Mass. ;  d.  Aug.  10,  '64,  Andersonville,  Ga. 

Jenkins,  Horatio,  Jr.,  23,  Chelsea;  gentleman,  S. ;  later  1st 
Lieut.,  Co.  G,  40th  Mass. ;  prom.  Captain,  also  Major  and 
Lieut. -colonel,  not  mustered  in  last  two ;  Lieut. -colonel, 
4th  Cav. ;  wd.,  High  Bridge,  Ya. ;  Colonel,  4th  Cav.  and 
Bvt.  Brig.-general,  U.  S.  Vols.,  March  13,  '65;  b.  Mar. 
23,  1838,  Boston;  studied  in  Yale  and  Harvard  Law 
School ;  lawyer,  Alexandria,  Minn. ;  d.  Jan.  13,  1908. 

* Johnson,  Joseph,  42,  Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4, 
'61;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos.;  d.  Dec.  10,  1898. 

Kilburn,  Charles,  21,  Lunenburg;  teacher,  S. ;  later  Co.  H, 
23d  Mass. ;  teacher  and  civil  engineer ;  helped  survey 
for  Fort  Ellsworth;  Adjt,  S.  H.,  Green  Island,  Neb.,  '70 
to  '76;  lawyer  till  death,  Feb.  8,  1895,  Juniata,  Neb. 

Kinsley,  Willard  C.,  25,  Somerville;  later  2d  Lieut.,  39th 
Mass. ;  prom.  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain ;  d.  April  21,  '65,  of 
wds.  rec'd  at  Gravelly  Run,  Va.,  Mar.  31,  '65. 

Mooney,  Charles  A.,  34,  Boston;  painter,  M.;  later  Co.  K, 
99th  N.  Y. 


364      FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


Moore,  Wm.  Frank,  25,  Somerville;  gentleman,  S. ;  d.  Wash 
ington,  D.  C.,  July  31,  '61. 

Nason,  George  W.,  Jr.,  27,  Franklin;  expressman,  M. ;  wd., 
and  a  prisoner  at  Bull  Run,  but  escaped  during  the  night 
and  rejoined  regiment ;  later  Co.  E,  23d  Mass. ;  elected 
by  the  company  chief  engineer  Newbern  Fire  Depart 
ment,  with  the  title  of  Colonel;  from  1865,  for  nine 
years,, was  postmaster  of  Newbern;  next  for  five  years, 
as  a  business  man,  helped  develop  the  old  North  State ; 
in  these  days,  1872  and  '76,  was  a  delegate  at  Republi 
can  national  conventions;  returning  to  Mass.,  he  dealt 
largely  in  real  estate  in  Boston;  b.  Jan.  11, 
1834,  Franklin ;  for  more  than  fifty  years  a 
Free  Mason,  he  belongs  to  DeMolay  Comman- 
dery,  Knights  Templars;  devoted  to  the  Grand 
Army  from  the  beginning,  he  commanded  the 
first  post  in  North  Carolina  and  now  belongs  to  the 
Franldin  Post ;  in  veteran  and  G.  A.  R.  circles,  no  one 
is  more  prominent  than  he,  nearly  always  attending  the 
national  encampments ;  to  no  one  is  the  publication  of 
the  history  of  the  "  Minute  Men  of  Massachusetts  "  so 

largely  due  as  to 
him;  1910,  Water 
Department,  City 
Hall,  Boston. 
Nelson  N.  Fletcher,  18, 
Somerville;  moroc 
co-dresser,  S. ;  later 
Corp.,  Co.  H,  23d 
Mass.;  pris.,  Drew- 
ry's  Bluff,  Va.;  d. 
June  11,  765,  Rich 
mond. 

Oliver,  Judson  W.,  29, 
Somerville;  sawyer, 
M.;  later  Sergt., 
Co.  E,  39th  Mass.; 
b.  June  18,  1832, 
Maiden ;  36  years  in 
Police  Deptartment, 
Somerville ;  died 
April  7,  1908. 


JucLson  W.  Oliver  (I). 


COMPANY  I.  365 

Paine,  Joseph  W7.,  18,  Somerville ;  clerk,  S. ;  later  1st  Lieut., 

Co.  E,  43d  .Mass.;  also  Captain,  Co.  L,  2d  II.  Arty.;  Bvt.- 

inajor;   d.   Nov.   16,   1905,  Charlestown,  MJ.   68-6-1. 
Parker.  Joseph  A.,  Jr., — ,Wroburn ;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61  ;  d.  Woburn. 
Parker,  Joseph  II. , — , Woburn ;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4,  '61; 

1(J01,  AVoburn. 

Parker,  Warren  F., — .Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4,  '61. 
Persons,  Oscar,  22,  Woburn  ;  silversmith,  S. ;  later  1st  Sergt., 

Co.  K,  39th  Mass.;  prom.  2d  Lieut.;  newspaperman,  for 

20   years   connected    with    Hudson    Enterprise;   d.   June 

26,  11)01,  Hudson,  ;e.  62-9-18. 
Powers,  Charles  II.,  19,  Somerville;  artist,  S. 
Quinby,    Charles    C.,  29,    Somerville;    barkeeper,    S. ;    later 

Corp.,  Co.  C,  1st  Cav. 
*Kogers,  Oliver  W.,  20,  Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61  ;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos. 
*Sehillinger,  Benj.  F.,  25,  Charlestown;  painter,  M. ;  vide  Co. 

II,  9  mos. 
Shattuck,  Lucius  II.,  21,  Marlboro;  student,  S. ;  later  Hosp.- 

steward,  T.  S.  Vols. 
Shaw,  William  E.,  22,  Portland,  Me. ;  gentleman,  S. ;  d.  July 

9,  1908,  .Moire,  X.  Y. 
Simonds,   Nathan   A.,   24,    Somerville;   expressman,   M. ;   dis. 

.May  21,    '61,  disa. ;  b.  Ashland,  Nov.   13,  1837;  Boston 

police  force.  June  27,  1830;  d.  .May  6,  1900,  Senior  Ser 
geant  of  the  force. 
Sweeney,  Charles  II.,  21,  Somerville;  clerk,  S. ;  en.  and  M. 

I.  May  15,  '61  ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  K,  6th  M.  V.  M.,  9  mos., 

1862;  1910,  Concord  June. 

Van  de  Sande,  John,  27.  Somerville;  silversmith,  S. 
Walker,  Edward  M.,  25,  Somerville ;  clerk,  S. 
^Wallace,  Kinsley,  81,  Somerville;  teamster,  M. ;  vide  Co.  B, 

9  mos. 
Watson,  William  W.,  31,  Somerville;  carpenter,  M. ;  later  Co. 

A,  30th  Mass.;  also  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  II,  8th  M.  V.  M.,  9 

mos.,  1862. 
Wescott,   Eugene,  27,  Woburn;   en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July  4, 

'61  ;    1910,    So.   Framingham. 
Whitcomb,   George  F.,   23,   Somerville ;   clerk,   S. ;  later  1st 

Lieut.,  Co.  A,  30th  Mass. ;  prom.  Captain,  and  k.  Oct. 

19,    '64,    Cedar   Creek,   Va. 


366      FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

*tWyer,  Edwin  F.,  24,  Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July 
4,  '61 ;  vide  Co.  E,  9  mos.,  and  G,  100  days. 

Wyman,  Luther  F.,  24,  Woburn;  en.  June  13,  M.  I.  July 
4,  '61;  later  2d  Lieut.,  Co.  K,  39th  Mass.;  prom.  1st 
Lieut,;  May  8,  '65,  Captain,  2d  U.  S.  Infty. 

Young,  Joseph,  23,  Somerville ;  painter,  S. ;  1910,  51  Ox 
ford  St.,  Somerville. 

COMPANY  K. 
CAPTAINS. 

(Charlestown  City  Guard,  Co.  H  [before  the  war],  5th  Regt.,  M.  V.  M. 
Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  April  19,   '61. ) 

*Served  in  9  months'  term.     tServed  in  100  days'  term. 

*John   T.  Boyd,   34,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  Aug.  2,   1858; 

prom.  Major,  July  5,   '61. 
John  B.  Norton,  from  1st  Lieut.,  July  7,    '61;  M.  0.  with 

regiment;  later   Captain,   34th   Mass.;   trans.   Aug.   22, 

'62,  to  36th  Mass. ;  prom.  Lieut.-colonel. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANTS. 

John  B.  Norton,  38,  Charlestown ;  prom.   Captain. 
*Caleb   Drew,    from    2d   Lieut.,   July    7,    '61;    M.    O.    with 
regiment ;   vide  Co.  H,   9  mos. 


SECOND    LIEUTENANTS. 

Caleb  Drew,  32,  Charlestown;  prom.  1st  Lieut. 
*  Walter  Everett,  from  3d  Lieut.,  July  8,    '61;  M.  0.  with 
regiment;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 


THIRD  LIEUTENANT. 

Walter  Everett,   27,   Charlestown;   prom.   2d  Lieut. 


COMPANY  K.  367 

SERGEANTS. 

Albert    Prescott    (1st),    31,    Charlostown;    later  ;Captain, 

Co.   B,    36th   Mass.;    also   Captain,    Co.    I,    57th   Mass.; 

prom.    Major;    k.    at   the    Crater,   Petersburg,   July   30, 

'64;  b.  Feb.  19,  1830,  Charlestown. 
*tDaniel     Webster  Davis,   34,   Charlestowii ;   vide   Co.   H,   9 

mos.,  and  100  days. 
Samuel  A.  Wright,  25,  Charlestown. 
George   A.   Bird,   33,   Charlestown. 

CORPORALS. 

*William  W.  Davis,  37,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 
*Enoch  J.  Clark,  36,  Charlestown;  vide  F.  &  S.,  9  mos. 
Joseph  Boyd,  27,  Charlestown ;  bro.  of  Capt. 
George   F.    Brackett,    23,    Charlestown;    later   Paymaster's 
steward;  also  Co.  D,  Capt,,  79th  II.  S.  C.  T. 

MUSICIAN. 

J.  Newton  Breed,  23,  Charlestown ;  had  served  as  private 
till  June  10,  '61;  later  as  "John  N. ;"  served  four 
years  in  Co.  I,  32d  Mass.;  May  8,  1894,  lost  sight  of 
both  eyes,  premature  blast,  Iredell  Co.  (N.  C.),  Granite 
Quarry;  d.  April  24,  1907,  Somerville. 


PRIVATES. 

Abbott,  Charles  H.,  23,  Cambridge;  later  Co.  I,  3d  Cav. ;  also 

Battery   B,   5th   U.   S.   Arty.;   b.   Wilbraham;   d.   June 

22,  1910,  Boston. 
Ames,   William    S.,    21,    Charlestown;   later    Sergt.,    Co.    B. 

36th  Mass. 
*Angier,    Henry  A.,    23,   Charlestown;   wd.    and   pris.,   Bull 

Run;  dis.  June  24,    '62;  vide   Co.  B,   9  mos. 
Babcock,   Converse   A.,    22,    Charlestown ;    pris.,   Bull   Run ; 

dis.  Jmre  24,   '62. 
f Bailey,  Andrew  J.,  20,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  H,  100  days. 


368       FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 

Bailey,  Charles  H.,  27,  Charlestown ;  Volunteer  Corp.  on 
the  colors;  b.  Dedham,  Sept.  9,  1835;  in  1st  class,  Somer- 
ville  H.  S.;  d.  March,  1881. 

*Beddoe,  Thomas,  44,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  II,  9  mos. 

Bent,  William  II.,  21,  Charlestown. 

Blunt,  George,  20,  Charlestown;  later  1st  Sergt.,  2d  Cav.; 
prom.  1st  Lieut. 

Boyd,  William,  23,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  C,  1st  Cav.;  d.  Feb. 
"  10,  1901,  Melrose. 

Brown.  Albert  F.  (Frank  A.);  1st  vol.  from  Everett;  22, 
Maiden;  later  Sergt,,  Co.  II,  47th  Mass.;  b.  Sept.  3,  1838; 
helped  organize  .Minute  Men  organization,  its  Adjutant 
7  years;  d.  March  17,  1903,  Everett. 

Brown",  John  H.,  28,  Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  36th 
Mass.;  also  Captain,  12th  Ky.  Vol.  Infty. 

Brown,  Warren  S.,  27,  Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  A, 
30th  .Mass.;  d.  June  20,  1907,  Charlestown. 

Bui  ekes,  Thomas  J.,  28,  Charlestown. 

Butters,  Frank  V.,  24,  Lexington;  1910,  Lexington. 

Butts,  Joseph  W.,  19,  Charlestown;  1910,  Charlestown. 

*Carr,  John  C.,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  II,  9  mos. 

Chandler,  Samuel  E.,  23,  Lexington;  wd.  and  pris.,  Bull  Run ; 
dis.  Jan.  20,  '62;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  F,  12th  Mass.;  1st 
Lieut,  and  Adjutant,  7th  Mo.  Cav. ;  d.  Cambridge,  Mass., 
Feb.  22,  1881. 

Childs,  George  T.,  19,  Charlestown;  pris.,  Bull  Run  ;  dis.  June 
24,  '62 ;  b.  Charlestown,  Sept.  7,  '42 ;  Commander  Post 
11,  G.  A.  R.;  1873,  removed  to  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  Sec.  to 
Pres.,  Cent.  Vt.  R.  R.,  till  1892;  '92-99  editor  St.  Albans 
Daily  Messenger;  Presidential  elector  and  messenger, 
1884;  Chief-of -staff,  Gov.  Farnham,  1878;  Judge  Advo 
cate  Genl.,  1880- '82;  Legislature  (Representative),  1896; 
Commander  Post  60,  and  Dept.  Vt.  G.  A.  R,,  each  one 
term;  1910,  P.  M.,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

tChurchill,  James  K.,  24,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  H,  100  days. 

Clark,  Joseph  H.,  24,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  C,  1st  Cav. 

Clark,  Joseph  H.,  2d,  31,  Charlestown. 

Cook,  Jacob  B.,  19,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  D,  2d  and  1st 
Lieut.,  5th  Cav. 

Davis,  Benjamin,  27,  Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B,  22d 
Mass. ;  prom.  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain ;  k.  May  10,  '64, 
Spottsylvania. 


COMPANY  K.  369 

Davis,  Edward  K.,  41,  Charlestown ;  dis.  June  25,  '61,  disa. ; 
later  Co.  H,  19th  Mass.;  b.  June  10,  1819,  Haverhill; 
was  a  policeman  in  Charlestown  at  enlistment ;,  his  sis 
ter,  Nancy  Buswell,  made  the  famous  flag  which  Co.  D 
bore  to  the  fray;  d.  June  4,  1903,  Maiden. 

Davis,  Marcus  M.,  19,  Charlestown;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  22d 
Mass. ;  prom.  2d  and  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain. 

Davis,  Obed  R.,  23,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  B,  36th  Mass.; 
d.  of  wds.  May  12,  '64,  Spottsylvania. 

^Dearborn,  Daniel  H.,  22,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 

Devereaux,  George  X.,  20,  Charlestown;  later  10th  Battery; 
d.  of  wds.  Aug.  24,  '64,  Reams  Station. 

Dow,  James  A.,  33,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  B,  36th  Mass. 

Drew.  Bartlett  S.,  25,  Charlestown. 

Ferrier,  William  A.,  25,  Charlestown. 

Fish,  Sumner,  21.  Charlestown  ;  rep.  missing  since  Bull  Run ; 
probably  killed. 

*Floycl,  David  0.,  23,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  F,  9  mos. ;  later 
U.  S.  Signal  Corps. 

Frothingham,  Frank  E.,  23,  Charlestown;  later  2d  Lieut., 
33d  Mass. ;  trans,  and  prom.  1st  Lieut,  and  Captain,  3d 
Cav. 

Frothingham,  John  B.,  22,  Charlestown:  en.  and  M.  I.  May 

15,  '61;  in  N.  Y.  state  en.  Dec.  3,  1869,  Co.  D,  23d  Regt, 
N.    G. ;    rose   from    private   to   Bvt.-colonel ;   retired   as 
Bvt.  Brig.-gen.,  1900;  1910,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Harding,  Wilbur  F.,  40,  Charlestown ;  dis.  June  2,  '61,  disa. 
Higgins,  Henry  W.,  27,  Charlestown. 
*Hilton,  Amos  S.,  32,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  H,  9  m,os. 
Holmes,  Peter  M..  21,  Charlestown ;  en.  and  M.  I.  May  15, 

'61 ;  later  as  P.  Marion  Holmes,  2d  Lieut.,  34th  Mass. ; 

trans,  and  prom.  1st  Lieut.,  36th  Mass..;  k.  Nov.  16,  '63, 

Campbell's  Station,  Tenn. 
Hunt,  Samuel  C.,  Jr.,  28,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M.  I.  May  30, 

'61;  app.  Q.  M.  Sergt,,  June  28,   '61. 
Kehoe,  George  H.,  24,  Cambridge. 
Lane,  Charles  D.  W.,  28,  Charlestown;  1910,  Maiden. 
Loring,  John  H.,  21,  Charlestown;  later  2d  Battery;  b.  Oct. 

16,  1839,  No.   Yarmouth,   Me. ;   prison   guard,   Charles- 
town   and  Concord,   1874,  till  his  retirement,   1907 ;  d. 
July  23,  1910,  Concord;  b.  Sleepv  Hollow  Cemetery. 

*Melvin,  William  W.,  26,  Lexington;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 

24 


370      FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  THREE  MONTHS. 


C.  D.  W.  Lane  (K). 
Chas.  H.  Bailey  (K).  Jas.  K.  Churchill  (K). 

Merrill,  Alfred  K.,  19,  Charlestown;  later  1st  Sergt.,  13th 

Battery. 
*Moulton,  Joseph,  Jr.,  23,  Charlestown ;  en.  and  M.  I.  May 

15,  '61 ;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 
Newhall,  Richard  H.,  19,  Charlestown ;  later  8th  Battery,  6 

mos.,  1862;  also  U.  S.  Navy. 
Nichols,   George,  21,   Charlestown ;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  A,  1st 

Cav. 

Niles,  Thomas,  20,  Charlestown. 
Palmer,  Lloyd  G.,  22,  Charlestown  :  dis.  June  2,  '61,  disa. 


SUMMARIES.  371 

Patten,  George  \V.,  20,  Charlestown;  later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  36th 
Mass. 

Perkins,  Charles  H.,  21,  Charlestown. 

Quigley,  Joseph,  22,  Charlestown. 

*Ramsay,  Royal,  21,  Lexington;  vide  Co.  H,  9  mos. 

Raymond,  Charles  H.,  21,  Charlestown;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  B, 
36th  Mass. ;  trans.  V.  R.  C. ;  Past  Commander,  Post  11, 
G.  A.  R. ;  1910,  Charlestown. 

Richards,  Charles  F.,  20,  Boston ;  later  1st  Lieut.,  Co.  K,  33d 
Mass. ;  also  1st  Sergt.,  Co.  A,  4th  Cav. ;  trans,  and  prom. 
2d  and  1st  Lieut.,  21st  U.  S.  C  T. 

Shepard,  Lewis  J.,  20,  Boston;  later  Co.  D,  1st  Cav. 

Simpson,  James  W.,  34.  Charlestown;  later  1st  Sergt.,  36th 
Mass. 

Thayer,  Ignatius  E.,  21,  Charlestown. 

Thompson,  George  W.,  21,  Boston. 

Tibbets,  Albion  W.,  25,  Boston. 

White,  Eben,  27,  Newton ;  en.  Oct.  15,  '61,  Co.  B,  U.  S.  En 
gineer  Batt.;  dis.  for  Com.  in  7th  U.  S.  Col.  Infty. ; 
murdered  at  Benedict,  Md.,  Oct.  20,  '64.  while  re 
cruiting. 

SUMMARIES. 

Of  the  823  men  who  constituted  the  rank  and  file  in  the 
three  months'  service  of  the  Fifth  Regiment,  only  seven 
officers  and  enlisted  men  served  in  the  subsequent  two  terms 
of  the  regiment ;  44  were  found  in  the  1st  and  2d  terms ; 
17  in  the  1st  and  3d,  this  latter  number  of  course  including 
the  seven  who  were  found  in  all  three  terms.  Reference 
to  the  several  companies  will  verify  the  above  statement. 

Of  the  total  823  officers  and  men,  221  did  not  serve  a 
second  time  in  any  organization,  thus  leaving  602  soldiers 
who  did  again  assume  the  uniform,  practically  three-fourths 
of  the  aggregate.  Of  this  number,  a  large  portion  became 
commissioned  officers,  the  rank  attained  being  as  follows : 

Brigadier-general,  2;  Colonel,  5;  Lieut. -colonel,  10;  Major, 
13;  Captain,  40:  First  Lieutenant,  50;  Second  Lieutenant, 
36. 

A  still  larger  number  became  non-commissioned  officers, 
thus : 

First  sergeants,  [)0;  sergeants,  108;  corporals,  70  hos 
pital-stewards,  4;  principal  musicians.  7, 


MAJOR  WAI.  E.  C.  WORCESTER 


FIELD  AND  STAFF.  373 

REGIMENTAL  ROSTER. 

Nine  Months'   Service. 

FIELD  AND  STAFF. 

(All   M.    I.    Oct.    8,    1862;    M.    O.    July    2,    1863.) 

*Served   in   3    months'   term.      tServed  in    100    days'   term.      | [Helped 
suppress    draft    riots,    Boston. 

COLONEL. 

*fGeorge  II.  Peirson,  46,  M. ;  blacksmith,  Salem;  D.  of  C., 
June  26,  '62 ;  M.  0.  with  regiment ;  vide  F.  &  S.,  3  mos. ; 
also  100  days,  1864. 

LIEUT. -COLONEL. 

*||John  T.  Boyd,  36,  M. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown ;  D.  of  C., 
June  26,  '62;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  vide  F.  &  S.,  3  mos., 
1861. 

MAJOR. 

t William  E.  C.  Worcester,  36,  M. ;  clerk,  Marlboro  •  D.  of  C., 
Aug.  28,  '62;  vide  F.  &  S.,  100  days,  1864. 

ADJUTANT. 

*||William  T.  Eustis,  3d,  27,  S. ;  hardware  merchant,  Charles- 
town;  D.  of  C.,  July  30,  '62;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  vide 
Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  b.  Aug.  19,  1837,  Rumford,  Me. ;  boy 
hood  spent  in  Boston ;  Asst.  Provost  Marshal,  Alexan 
dria,  '61  ;  in  N.  C.  twice  offered  position  as  Major  on 
Gen'l  Foster's  staff;  hardware  merchants  of  Boston  gave 
him  horse  and  equipments ;  in  civil  life  represented  Bos 
ton  Lead  Co.  in  Me.,  N.  H.,  and  Vt. ;  in  politics,  a  Pro 
hibitionist,  has  been  candidate  for  mayor  of  Portland, 
Federal  Congress  and  Govern°r  of  Maine;  1910,  So. 
Paris,  Me. 


374        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


QUARTERMASTER . 

George  A.  Norton,  b.  Maine ;  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston ;  D.  of  C., 
July  23,  '62 ;  M.  O.  with  regiment ;  later  Captain,  Assist 
ant' Quartermaster,  U.  S.  Vols.;  d.  March  14,  1908,  Mor 
gan  Hill,  near  Oakland,  Cal. 


SURGEON. 

William  Ingalls,  45,  M. ;  surgeon,  Winchester;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
20,  '62 ;  M.  O.  with  regiment ;  later  Surgeon,  59th  Mass. ; 
d.  Dec.  1,  1903,  Roxbury. 


ASSISTANT    SURGEON. 

Dixi  C.  Hoyt,  29,  M. ;  surgeon,  Milford;  D.  of  C.,  Oct.  1,  '62; 
M.  0.  with  regiment ;  later  Asst.  Surg.,  2d  H.  Arty. 


CHAPLAIN . 

Wm.  Franklin  Snow,  23,  S. ;  clergyman,  Somerville ;  I),  of  C., 
Oct.  7,   '62 ;  M.  O.  with  regiment. 


SERGEANT-MAJOR. 

James   M.  Shute,  23,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville  ;  in  charge    of   sick, 
Beaufort,  N.  C.,  after  June  22,  '63  ;  M.  0.  July  11,  '63. 


QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT. 

*| | William  II.  Burbank,  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford ;  vide  Co.  E, 
3  mos.,  1861  ;  later  Co.  I,  58th  Mass. 


COMMISSARY-SERGEANT. 

*||Enoch  J.  Clark,  36,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  K, 
3  mos.,  1861  ;  d.  Charlestown. 


COMPANY  A.  375 

HOSPITAL-STEWARD. 

John  M.  Foster,  36,  M. ;  shoe-dealer,  Salem. 
COMPANY  A. 

(Unless    otherwise    stated,    all    M.    I.    Sept.    29,    1862;    M.    O.    July 
2,    1863.) 

t Served    in    100    days'    term.       I! Helped   suppress    draft    riots,    Boston. 

CAPTAIN. 

1 1  James  F.  Green,  29,  S. ;  grocer,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
25,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

j  John  McGrath,  24,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown ;  M.  0.  with 
regiment. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

|  James  W.  Dillon,  29,  M. ;  marble-worker,  Charlestown ;  M. 
0.  with  regiment. 

SERGEANTS. 

Garrett  H.  Roach   (1st),  27,  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
Michael   Kelley,   32,  M. :  mason,   Charlestown ;  later  U.   S. 
Navy. 

Matthew  Welch,  27,  M. ;  plumber,  Charlestown;  d.  1902, 
Charlestown. 

1 1 Michael  F.  O'Xeil  24,  S. ;  mason,  Charlestown;  later  Q.  M. 
Sergt.,  4th  Battery,  as  Win.  Hastings;  d.  1896,  Charles- 
town. 

| [Edward  McElroy,  24,  S. ;  caulker,  Charlestown;  appointed 
from  Corp.  Nov.  1,  '62. 

CORPORALS. 

||Daniel  J.  Sullivan,  27,  M. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
||Jereiniah  J.  Ryan,  34,  M. ;  mason,  Charlestown. 


376        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

|Michael  A.  Xeagle,  24,  S. ;  upholsterer,  Charlestown. 
(Thomas  Hinchey,  23,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  later  U. 

S.  Navy. 
George  Hamilton.  21,   S. :  seaman,   Charlestown;  app.  Corp. 

Oct.  8,  '62. 
Michael  Greene,  21,  S. ;  grocer,  Charlestown;  app.  Corp.  Nov. 

1,  '62. 

William  Shannon.  26,  M. ;  caulker,  Charlestown;  dis.  Jan.  9, 
'63,  disa. 


THE  LOCOMOTIVE  WHICH  DREW  THE  FIFTH  FROM 
MOREHEAD   CITY  TO  XEWBERX. 

MUSICIANS. 

Charles  Kimball,  17,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Eugene   F.   Viles,   15,   S. ;  -        — ,  Charlestown  ;   later  Mus., 
Co.  D,  30th  Mass. 


1 1 James    Reynolds,    23,    S. ;    teamster,    Charlestown;     1910, 
Charlestown. 

PRIVATES. 
||Aldrich,  Benjamin  F1.,  34,  S. ;  carpenter.  Charlestown. 


COMPANY  A.  377 

||Anderson,  Daniel,  1st,  27,  S. ;  caulker,  Charlestown. 
jJAnderson,  Daniel,  2d,  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
Baker,     William   J.,   27,  — ;  mariner,      Charlestown;     des. 

Oct.  22,   '62,  Boston. 
Bonner,   John,    21,  — ;  barber,    Charlestown;    des.    Oct.    22, 

'62,  Boston. 

||Boyle,  Michael,  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  1910,  Boston. 
Breen,  Walter,  26,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
||Brennan,  Michael,  28,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
Brown,    John,    30,    -  — ;    rigger,    Charlestown;    des.    Oct.    22, 

'62,  Boston. 
Cadogan,   Daniel,  21,  S. :  carver,  Charlestown:  dis.  Jan.  30, 

'63,  disa.,  Xewbern. 
| ;  Carey,   Thomas,  21,  S. ;   farmer,   Charlestown;  later  Co.  K, 

4th  Cav.,  as  Thomas  "J.:"  d.  before  1887. 
Carroll,  John,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Charlestown. 
Carroll,  William,  26,  M. ;  farmer,  Charlestown. 
Cassidy,  Philip,  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  en.  Aug.  22, 

'62;  N.  F.  R. 

Chase,  Edward  K.,  44,  M. ;  teamster.  Melrose. 
||Clark,    Joseph    J.,    28,--    :    teamster,    Charlestown;    later 

Co.  M,  4th  Cav. ;  d.  May,  1897,  Charlestown. 
Conway,  Thomas  A.,  22,  M. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown  ; 

later  Co.  B,  llth  Mass. 
Coyle,  Peter,  24,  S. ;  grocer,  Charlestown. 
Croghan,  John,  28,  M. ;   currier,  Charlestown  ;   dis.  June  6, 

'63,  to  re-en.,  Co.  D,  2d  H.  Arty. 
||Dalton,  Michael,  28,  M. ;  currier,  Boston;  d.    Nov.  6,  1902, 

Somerville. 
Davis,  Matthew  II.,  21,  -         -;  laborer,  Charlestown;  des. 

Oct.  22,  '62,  Boston. 

||Dempsey,  John  H.,  21,  S. :  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
||Desmond,  Peter,  28,  M. ;  baker,  Charlestown. 
Devine,  John  B.,  21,  S. :  rope-maker,  Charlestown;  dis.  Oct. 

25,   '62,  writ  of  habeas  corpus. 
||Devlin,  Thomas,  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
[JDonallen,  Dennison,  38,  M. ;  seaman,  Charlestown. 
||Donegan,  Jeremiah,  42,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
||Donegan,  Timothy,  36,  S. ;  morocco-dresser.  Charlestown. 
IJDonohoe,  Michael,  28,  M. ;  stone-cutter,  Charlestown. 
j]Dowds,  John,   25,   M. ;  baker,  Charlestown. 


378        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Dunbar,  John,  21,  -         — ;  laborer,  Charlestown ;   des.  Oct. 

22,  '62,  Boston. 
Early,  Patrick,  25,  -        -;  painter,  Boston;  des.  Oct.  22,  '62, 

Boston. 

IJFlynn,  John,  27,  -        — ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
HFoley,  Michael,  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
JlGagen,  Charles,  33,  M. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Gallagher,  John,  22,  S. ;  mason,  Charlestown ;  dis,  Jan.  12, 

'63,  disa. 

| [Griffin,  Martin,  43,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
Hall,  Thomas,  23,  S. ;  cooper,  Charlestown. 
Hanley,  AVilliam,  23,  S. ;  currier,  Charlestown. 
Harding,  Charles  H.,  21,  -        — ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  des, 

Oct.  22,  '62,  Boston. 

||Higgins,  Thomas,  21,  S. ;  upholsterer,  Charlestown. 
t Hooper,   Geo.   Edward,   21,  S. ;  laborer,   Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  K,  100  days,  '64;  later  Co.  L,  3d  Cav. 
Hunter,  Patrick  Henry,  21,  S.;  upholsterer,  Charlestown;  dis. 

Jan.  14,  '63,  Xewbern,  disa. 

||Keffe,  AVilliam,  32,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
Kenefick,  Patrick,   30  —  ;-      — ,   Charlestown;    des.    Oct  22, 

'62,  Boston. 
Kenney,  John,  27,  S. ;  farmer,  Charlestown;  dis.  Jan.  6,   '63, 

to  re-en.,  Co.  A,  2d  H.  Arty.;  d.  Oct.  11,  '64,  Xewbern, 

X.  C. 
Leonard,  William  A.,  26,  M. ;  rigger,  Charlestown  ;  dis.  March 

3,  '63,  disa.,  Xewbern;  d.  before  1890. 
| [Long,  John.  21,  S. ;  currier,  Charlestown. 
Mahoney,  James,  28,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Charlestown. 
llMahoney,  Sylvester  G.,  21,  S. ;  caulker,  Charlestown. 
Marshall,  James,  45,  M. ;  farmer,  Maiden. 
IJMcCarty,  Daniel,  44,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
IjMcCloud,  James,   26,  M. ;   caulker,   Charlestown. 
McCloud,  Peter,  33,  M. ;  cabinet-maker,  Charlestown. 
|  [McDonald,  Lawrence,  32,  -        — ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
;McGrath,  Patrick,  29,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  later  IT.  S. 

Xavy. 

||Morley,  Alexander,  30,  M. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
Morris,  John,  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  des.  Oct.  22,  '62, 

Boston. 
||Mulreany,  Patrick,  25,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 


COMPANY  B.  379 

||Mulrooney,  William,  30,  -        — ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  later 

Co.   C,   56th  Mass. 

||Murphy,  Michael,  21,  S. ;  rope-maker,  Charlestown. 
Murray,  John,  21,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown;  des.  Oct.  22, 

'62,  Boston. 

|0'Neil,  Thomas,  22.  S. ;  mason,  Charlestown. 
jPlnnket,  James  F.,  23,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown. 
l|Riley,  Matthew  T..  23,  S. ;  carver.  Charlestown. 
Ryan*  Thomas.  21,  -        -;  -       — ,  Charlestown  ;  des.  Oct.  22, 

'62,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Albert,  33,  M. ;  cigar-maker,  Charlestown. 
Sheehan,  John,  41,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  dis.  April  24, 

'63,  disa,>  Newbern. 
Sheehan,  Timothy,  27,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown ;  d.  Nov.  26, 

'62,  Newbern. 
Shopland,  Frank,  22,  -        — ;  laborer,  Charlestown  ;  des,  Oct. 

22,  '62,  Boston. 

| (Sweeney,  John,  42.  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
1 1 Welsh,  John,  21,   S. ;  laborer.  Charlestown. 
||Welsh,  Patrick.  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
Wiggins,  James,  27,  S. ;  laborer,   Charlestown  ;  dis.  June  6, 

'63,  to  re-en.,  Co.  B,  2d  H.  Arty. 


COMPANY  B. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  M.  I.  Sept.  19,  1862;  M.  O.  July 
2,  1863.) 

*Served  in  3  months'  term.  tServed  in  100  days'  term.  | (Helped 
suppress  draft  riots,  Boston. 


CAPTAIN. 

IJBenjamin  F.  Parker,  31,  S. ;  merchant,  Somerville ;  D.  of  C., 
Sept.  5,  '62;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  d.  Feb.  4,  1895,  Bos 
ton. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*||Walter  C.  Bailey,  b.  1835;  28.  S. ;  engineer,  Somerville;  D. 
of  C.,  Sept.  5,  '62 ;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  for  many 
years  engraver,  Boston;  1910,  Somerville. 


380        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


G.  W.  Burroughs  (B). 


W.  C.  Bailey  (B). 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 


Jos.  Sinclair  (B). 


*|  John  Harrington,  28,  M. ;  merchant,  Somerville ;  D.  of  C., 
May  30,  '62;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861. 

SERGEANTS. 

Edward  W.  Denny  (1st),  25,  S. ;  manufacturer,  Somerville; 

app.  April  15,  '63,  from  Sergt. ;  later  Co.  I,  2d  H.  Arty. 
*||James  E.  Paul,  32,  S. ;  builder,  Somerville;  vide  Co.  1/3 

mos.,  1861  ;  d.  May  11,  1896,  Somerville,  a3.  66-3-25. 
:| | Wallace  Kinsley,  32,  M. ;  teamster,  Somerville;  vide  Co.  I, 

3  mos.,   1861. 
fCharles  T.  Robinson   (Color  Sergt.),     26,     M. ;     locksmith, 

Somerville;  vide  Co.  B,  100  days,   '64;  1st  Lieut, 
*||Henry  A.   Angier,   24,    S. ;   expressman,   Somerville;   app. 

April  15,  '63;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  b.  April  30,  1839; 

in  service  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  Fire  Dept. ;  d. 

July  17,  1906,  Somerville. 


CORPORALS. 

||Ebenezer  C.  Mann,  Jr.,  22,  M. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  1910,  Lan 
caster. 


COMPANY  B.  381 

Charles  E.  Davis,  24,  M. ;  clerk,  Somerville ;  d.  Jan.  19,  1909, 

Somerville. 
||Granville  W.  Daniels,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  vide  Co.  B, 

100  days,  '64,  2d  Lieut. ;  1910,  Chelsea. 
Nathaniel  Dennett,  33,  M. ;  britannia-maker,  Somerville ;  d. 

Feb.  21,  1900,  Somerville. 
Edwin  Turner,  33,  M. ;  shipwright,   Somerville ;   1910,  Dan- 

vers. 
Cyrus  B.  Rowe,  34,  S. ;  carpenter,  Somerville ;  app.  April  15, 

'63. 
Willard  L.   Hawes,    19,    S. ;   stair-builder,    Somerville;    app. 

April  15,  '63;  later  Co.  F,  6th  Mass.,  100  days,  1864;  d. 

Mar.  8,  1908,  Wakefield. 
William   Franklin    Snow,  23,  S. ;  student,  Somerville  ;    prom. 

Chaplain,  Oct.  3,  '62;  vide  F.  &  S. 
Thomas  R.  Watson,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  sick  in  hospital, 

Beaufort,  X.  C.,  at  M.  0. ;  1910,  Passaic,  N.  J. 


MUSICIANS. 

|1  James  H.  Flagg,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  later  Co.  E,  4th 
H.  Arty.,  as  Henry  J. ;  1910,  S.  H.,  Togus,  Me. 

fFrank  Wallberg,  15,  S. ;  student,  Somerville;  vide  Co.  B,  100 
days,  '64. 

WAGONER. 

*Henry  H.  Robinson,  2d,  24,  S. ;  teamster,  Somerville ;  vide 
Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861. 

PRIVATES. 

Abbott,  Nathaniel  T.,  20,  S. ;  carpenter,  Somerville;  1910, 
So.  Framingham. 

Adams,  Melvin,  20,  M. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  1910,  Boston. 

||Aiken,  William  A.,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  lat.  add.  Bos 
ton. 

Allen,  Lewris  A.,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 

Anderson,  Wm.  W.,  34,  M. ;  teamster,  Somerville;  wd.  White 
hall,  N.  C.,  Dec.  10,  '62 ;  detailed  at  Brant  Island,  light- 
boat,  Mar.  26,  '63;  pris,  June  4,  '63,  while  ashore  with 
mate  of  boat;  later  llth  Battery;  d.  Nov.  15,  '64,  Wash 
ington,  N.  C. 


382        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

1 1  Anthony,  Joseph,  32,  M. ;  wheelwright,  Somerville;  d.  Pen- 

dleton,  Oregon. 

I  [Arnold,  Joseph,  44,  M. ;  slater,  Somerville;  later  Corp.,  Co. 
Austin,  Joseph  A.,  22,  -        — ;  -       — ,  Somerville;  d.  July  7, 

1906,  Lexington. 

Ayers,  William,  32,  S. ;  umbrella-maker,  Somerville. 
Barnes,  George  W.,  20,  8.;  mechanic,  Somerville;  wd.  Golds- 

boro;  d.  1893,  Litchneld,  N.  H. 
||Barr,  Thomas  A.,  28,  M. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 
Beers,  Romanus  E.,  21,  M. ;  baker,  Somerville;  d.  Nov.,  1907, 

Everett. 
Brackett,  Charles  K.,  24,  S.;   baker,   Somerville;   lat.   add., 

New  Bedford. 
Brintnall,  Samuel  R.,  42,  M. ;  paper-hanger,  Somerville ;  d. 

Aug.  15,  1904,  Charlestown. 
Bruce,  Calvin  A.,  28,  M. ;  waiter,  Somerville. 
Burroughs,  George  W.,  18,  S.;  clerk,  Somerville;  wd.  Golds- 

boro;  vide  Co.  B,  100  days;    1910,  Fort  Worth,  Texas. 
Butler,  Alonzo,  26,  M. ;  peddler,  Somerville ;  later  Co.  L,  2d 

H.  Arty.,  as  Alonzo  A. 
Cashin,  John,  36,  M. ;  currier,  Somerville. 
Chamberlain,  Russell  T.,  22.  M. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  detached 

to  Signal  Corps,  Nov.  24,  '62,  Newbern ;  M.  0.  with  regi 
ment  ;  1910,  Somerville. 
Clausen,  John,  26,  S. ;  clerk.  Somerville;  des.  Sept.  27,   '62, 

Wenham. 
Cobb,   Frederick   R,,    21,    S. ;   attendant,    Somerville;    1910, 

Northampton. 
Cunningham,  James,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  des.  Oct.  10, 

'62,  Wenham. 
||Cushing,  Frederic,  18,  S. ;  locksmith,  Somerville;  later  Co. 

K,  58th  Mass. ;  1910,  Somerville. 
Daniels,  Ferdinand  D.,  18,  S. :  printer,  Somerville ;  d.  Nov.  1, 

1904,  Somerville. 
(|tDickson,   William  E.,   18,   S. ;   milkman,   Somerville;  vide 

Co.  B,  100  days,  2d  Lieut. 
||Dillaway,  James  H.,  22,  M. ;  provision-dealer,  Somerville; 

1910,  Williamstown. 
Dusseault,  Adolphus,  20,  M. ;  carver,  Somerville ;  d.  Feb.  16, 

1902,  Boston. 
[[Elliott,  William,  25,  M. ;  baker.  Somerville;  d.  Feb.  9,  1902, 

Scituate. 


COMPANY  B. 


383 


E.  F.  Mann  (B). 


H.  A.  Gilson  (B). 
(In  Later  Years) 


H.  A.  Gilson  (B). 
(In  War  Times) 


Emmott,  James,  23,  S. ;  engraver.  Somerville;  1910,  Hingham. 

Gilson,  Henry  E.,  15.  S. ;  student,  Somerville;  d.  1894,  Somer 
ville;  b.  Cambridge,  June  10,  1847;  later  May  4,  '64,  6th 
Unattached  Co.,  3  ins. :  the  youngest  man  in  the  regiment, 
he  enlisted  as  drummer-boy,  but  on  account  of  his  six- 
foot  stature  exchanged  his  drum  for  a  gun. 

Glidden,  Alvin  F.,  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Somerville ;  later  1st  Un 
attached  Co.,  90  days,  1864;  1910,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 

Greenwood,  Moses  F.,  34,  M. ;  boot-treer,  Somerville;  d.  Dec. 
18,  1895,  Marlborough. 

Haley.  Peter  B.,  22,  S. ;  teamster,  Somerville ;  d.  April  19, 
1904,  Cambridge. 

Hallahan,  Daniel.  20,  S. ;  grocer,  Somerville;  d.  before  1886. 

Hanson,  Joseph,  41,  M. ;  farmer,  Somerville ;  dis,  March  28, 
'63,  disa.,  Newbern. 

IJHartwell,  Daniel  A.,  35.  M. ;  stable-keeper,  Somerville. 

Havlin,  Michael,  22,  S. :  iron-molder,  Somerville ;  later  Marine 
Corps. 

Hayes,  Patrick,  21,  S. ;  glass-worker ;  Somerville. 

Hinckley,  George  AY,,  23,  S. ;  waiter,  Somerville :  d.  before 
1890. 


384        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


Thos.  R.  Watson  (B).  Geo.  E.  Mitchell  (B). 

Holland,    Charles   H.,   21,    S. ;    attendant,   Somerville;   1910, 

New  York  city. 

||Hollander,  Charles  13.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 
Hubbard,  Edwin  A.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 
Huston,  Wells  W.,  43,  M. ;  milkman,  Somerville ;  d.  Nov.  21, 

1895,  Boston. 

Jewett,  James  H.,  43,  M. ;  merchant,  Somerville. 
Kimball,  George  A.,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  1910,  North 
ampton. 
Leavitt,     John     W.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;   1910,  Dover, 

N.  II. 
Lee,  Nicholas,  31,  M. ;  blacksmith,  Somerville;  dis.  Jan.  14, 

'63,  disa. 

Levitt,  John  C.,  18,  S. ;  calico-printer,   Somerville. 
Lincoln,  George  E.,  20,  S. ;  grocer,  Somerville. 
|  (Locke,  William  E.,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 
Loveless,  Eli  W.,  31,  M. ;  wheelwright,  Somerville. 
1 1 Manning,  William,  28,  M. ;  plasterer,  Somerville;  d.  July  14, 

1905,  Maiden. 
Maynard,  George  W.,  18,  S. ;  accountant,  Somerville ;  1910. 

Somerville. 


COMPANY  B.  385 

Mills,  John  A.,  37,  M. ;  carpenter,  Somerville. 

Minneaugh,  Michael,  22,  S. ;  glass-blower,  Somerville. 

Mitchell,  George  E.,  19,  S. ;  accountant,  Somerville;  b.  May 
8,  1844,  Cambridge ;  schools,  of  Cambridge  and  Somer 
ville  ;  1870,  wholesale  dealer  in  bntter,  cheese  and  eggs, 
Faneuil  Hall  Market,  Boston ;  1872,  senior  member,  Mit 
chell,  Dexter  &  Co.,  commission  merchants;  in  sub 
stantially  the  same  business  to  date;  1878- '79,  member 
Common  Council,  Chelsea;  1880- '81,  Alderman,  in  '81, 
Pres. ;  1887- '88,  Mayor  of  Chelsea;  for  several  preceding- 
years  was  chairman  Republican  City  Committee;  has 
been  chairman  School  Committee,  of  trustees  of  Public 
Library;  twenty-five  years  on  Board  of  Water  Commis 
sioners,  last  five  as  chairman;  is  chairman  standing 
committee,  First  Universalist  Church;  in  Free  Masonry 
is  a  member  of  Star  of  Bethlehem  Lodge,  Shekinah 
Chapter,  and  Palestine  Commandery;  was  Treasurer  of 
the  Massachusetts  Mayors'  Club;  for  many  years  he  has 
been  Secretary  of  the  Fifth  Regiment  Veteran  Associa 
tion,  also  Pres.  of  Co.  B  Association;  belongs  to  Post 
113,  G.  A.  R.,  and  to  Command  No.  1,  U.  V.  U.;  1910, 
Mitchell,  Duffy  &  Co.,  5  Blackstone  St.,  Boston. 

Moulton,  Henry  M.,  18,  S. ;  milkman,  Somerville ;  West 
Burke,  Vt. 

Xedtlinger,  Edward,  28,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  des.  Sept.  27, 
'62,  Wenham. 

Parsons,  Benjamin  B.,  32,  M. ;  carpenter,  Somerville;  d.  June 
15,  1895.  No.  Anson,  Me. 

||Pattee,  George  E.,  21,  S. ;  painter,  Somerville;  d.  Dec.  23, 
1907,  Chariest  own. 

Paul,  Albert  H.,  25,  S. ;  carpenter.  Somerville. 

Poor,  John  A..  20,  M. ;  merchant,  Somerville;  Corp.  till  April 
15,  '63,  when  he  res.  warrant;  1910,  Wellfleet. 

Potter.  John  II.,  26,  M. ;  printer,  Somerville. 

Pressey,  Charles  A.,  18,  S. ;  fruit-dealer,  Somerville. 

HRing,  Gardner  W.,  18,  S. ;  grocer,  Somerville. 

||tRoberts,  John  W.,  23.  S. ;  roller-maker,  Somerville;  vide  Co. 
II,  100  days,  '64. 

^Robinson,  Henry  H.,  21.  S. ;  locksmith,  Somerville;  at  first 
was  1st  Sergt. ;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos..  '61;  1910,  Brookline. 

Shattuck,  Edward  L.,  22,  S, ;  attendant,  Somerville;  dis.  Oct. 
8.   '62,  disa.,  Wenham. 
25 


386        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


H.  M.  Moulton  (B). 


John  A.  Poor  (B). 


G.  E.  Mitchell  (B). 


IJSinclair,  Joseph,  28,  M. ;  carpenter,  Somerville;  1910,  Cam 
bridge. 
Stout,  Edward,  28,  8.;  painter,  Somerville;  des.  Oct.  5,   '62, 

Wenham. 
Sturtevant.  George  F.,  21,  S. :  teamster,  Somerville ;  d.  1894, 

Bradford,  111. 
IjThayer,  Samuel  J.  F.,  20.  S. ;  architect.  Somerville;  d.  189-4, 

Boston. 

Thompson,  Francis  II.,  31.  M. ;  salesman,  Somerville. 
Tompkins,  Samuel  G.,  18.  S. :  clerk.  Somerville ;  d.  June  22, 

'63,  Newbern. 
Whit-comb,  Francis  E.,  22,  S. :  milkman.  Somerville;     d.  Dec. 

16,   1899,  Waverley. 
White,  Joseph  A.,  34,  -        — ;  carpenter,  Somerville;  d.  Oct. 

10,  1904,  Somerville. 

Willett,  George  A.,  30,  M. ;  brakeman,  Somerville. 
Williams,  Albert,  37,  M. ;  provision-dealer,  Somerville. 
Winslow,  Edward  E.,  31,  M. ;  laborer.  Somerville;  d.  July  30, 

1907,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 

i'Woochvell,  Charles  H.,  34,  S. ;  printer,  Somerville. 
Younie,    John,    45,   M. ;    shoemaker,    Somerville ;   d.   June    1, 

1902,  Boston. 


COMPANY  C.  387 

COMPANY  C. 

(Unless   otherwise    stated,   all   M.   I.    Sept.    19,    1862;    M.    0.    July   2, 
1863.) 

t Served   in    100    days'    term. 

CAPTAIN. 

Robert  S.  Daniels,  Jr.,  32,  M. ;  merchant,  So.  Danvers :  D.  of 
C.,  Aug.  28,  '62;  d.  Dec.  6,    1908,  Peabody. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

f George  F.  Barnes,  27,  S. ;  teacher,  So.  Danvers;  D.  of  C 
Aug.  28,   '62;  vide  Co.  C.  100  davs,  1864. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

t  William  L.  Thompson,  27,  S. ;  teacher,  So.  Danvers ;  D    of 
C.,  Aug.  28,    '62;  vide  Co.  C,  100  days,  1864. 


SERGEANTS. 

John  W.  Stevens  (1st),  29,  M. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers;  M.  0. 

with  regiment ;  d.  Chicago. 
fBenj.  F.  Southwick,  27,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers; 

vide  Co.  C,  100  days,   '64. 
t  Lewis  A.  Manning,  24,  S. ;  butcher,  So.  Danvers ;  vide  Co. 

C,  100  days,   '64. 
tGeorge  II.  Little,  21,  S. ;  farmer.  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co.  C, 

100  days,  '64. 
Charles  H.  Kimball,  26,  M. ;  engineer,  So.  Danvers  •  dis.  April 

24,  '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 


CORPORALS. 

Joseph   S.   Nutter,   29,   M. ;    butter-peddler.   So.    Danvers  •    d 
Sept.   13,   1902,   Salem. 


388        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Thomas  W.  Buxton,  24,  M. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers ;  d. 
March  17,  1908,  Maiden. 

Horace  S.  Page,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers, 

William  F.  Pingree,  34,  M. ;  carpenter,  So.  Danvers ;  d. 
March  2,  1900,  Peabody. 

James  Perkins,  44,  M. ;  millwright.  So.  Danvers. 

t  Joseph  N.  Burbeck,  28,  S. ;  tallow-chandler,  So.  Danvers ; 
vide  Co.  C,  100  days,  '64. 

Perez  L.  Winchester,  21,  S. ;  teamster,  So.  Danvers. 

Nicholas  M.  Quint,  24,  S. ;  teamster,  So.  Danvers;  b.  Baton, 
N.  II.,  July  18,  1838;  after  army  life,  contractor  and 
dealer  in  real  estate ;  in  Peabody,  assessor,  water  com 
missioner,  supt.  of  water- works ;  prominent  in  all  local 
affairs;  Representative  in  General  Court,  1894  and  '95; 
d.  Oct.  31,  1906. 


MUSICIANS. 

Henry  R.  Holder,  27,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin. 
tCharles  A.  Symonds,  16,  S. ;  farmer,  Middleton ;  vide  Co.  C, 
100  days,1  '64;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Cav. 


WAGONER. 

Albert  Carleton,  30,  M. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers;  dis.  April  1, 
'63,   disa.,   Newbern. 


PRIVATES. 

Arnold,  Frank  T.,  28,  S. ;  clerk,  So.  Danvers ;  "d.  1909,  Pea- 
body. 

Barnard,  John  W.,  22,  S. ;  So.  Danvers,  stone-cutter. 

Batchelder,  George  H.,  30,  M. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  June, 
1909,  Saugus. 

^Beckett,  William  C.,  18,  S. ;  farmer.  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co. 
C,  100  days,  1864. 

Bodge,  Amos  P.,  24,  M. ;  potter,  So.  Danvers. 

Bodge,  Jacob  G.,  26,  M. ;  milkman,  So.  Dauvers;  d.  March  23, 
1906,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  C.  389 

Boynton,  John  W.,   19,   S. ;  seaman,   So.  Danvers;  later  5th 

Battery;  d.  of  wds.  May  12,  '64,  Spottsylvania. 
Bushby,  Joseph,  Jr.,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers ;  1910,  Dan 
vers. 
Bnxton,  George  W.,  29,  M. ;  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers ;  1910, 

Beverly. 
+  Carr,  Charles  E.,  18,  S. ;  morocco-dresser.  So.  Danvers ;  vide 

Co.  C,  100  days,  1864;  1910,  Peabody. 
Colby,  Charles,  28,  M. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  later  Co.  G,  2d 

H.  Arty. 
Curtis,  "William  P.,  24,  S. ;  ice-man,  So.  Danvers ;  later  Co.  E, 

1st  Cav. 

Dodge,  John  C.,  26,  S. ;  shoe-cntter,  So.  Danvers. 
Evans,  Orin  R.,  21,  S. ;  farmer.  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Peabody. 
Farnham,  Andrew  N..  21,  S. ;  milkman.  So.  Danvers. 
Foster,  John    M.,  36,  M. ;    shoemaker,  Salem ;  prom.  Hospjita»l- 

steward,  Oct.  8,   '62,  F.  &  S. ;  d.  March  7,  1909,  Salem. 
Galencia,  Perley,   21,  M. ;  soldier,  So.  Danvers;  had  served 

in    Co.    B,    17th   Mass.;    later   Co.    E,    1st    Cav.;     1910, 

Peabody. 
tGalencia,  Samson  B.,  19,  S. ;  stone-cutter,  So.  Danvers ;  vide 

Co.  C,  100  days,  1864. 

Gilbert,  James,  28,  M. ;  teamster,  So.  Danvers. 
Goodridge,  George  II.,  18,  S. ;  mason,  So.  Danvers;  d.  Nov. 

18,  1904,  Revere. 
Graves,  John,  Jr.,  30,  M. ;  stone-cutter.  So.  Danvers ;  d.  March 

24,  1903,  Peabody. 

Hadley,  Horace  L.,  25,  S. ;  attorney,  Salem ;  1910,  Washing 
ton  Court  House,  Ohio. 

Ham,  Henry  E.,  26,   S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Salem. 
Harrington,   William  II.   18,   S. ;  seaman,   Salem. 
Hart,  Samuel  P.,  27,  M. ;  tanner.  So.  Danvers ;  d.  April  26, 

1906,  Peabody. 
+Hildreth,  William  II.,  18,  S. ;  tallow-chandler,  So.  Danvers; 

vide  Co.  C,  100  days,  1864;  1910,  Quincy. 
Hutchinson,  Benj.  F.,  26,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  d.  1890, 

Peabody. 
Hutchinson,    Charles    K.,    34,    S. ;    farmer,    So.    Danvers;    d. 

April  13,  1898,  Peabody. 
Ingalls,    Amos,    34,    S. ;   shoemaker,    So.    Danvers ;    d.   April 

29,  1887,   Peabody. 


390        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Jacobs,  George  F.,  19,  S.;  tanner,  So.  Danvers;  U.  S.  Navy, 
July  26,    '64. 

t  Johnson,  Frank  E.,  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Salem ;  vide  Co.  C, 
100  days,  1864. 

Jones,   George   W.,   21,   S. ;   box-maker,   So.   Danvers;   1910, 

Peabody. 

'Kimball.  Charles  E.,  20,  S. ;  box-maker,  Ashland;  1910,  Ash 
land. 

Kimball,  Hiram  A.,  24,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers ;  1910,  Pea- 
body. 

Low,  George  H.,  20,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Salem ;  1910,  Pea- 
body. 

Lunt,  William  J.,  33,  M. ;  grocer,  Salem;  1910,  Maiden. 

Mackintire,   Charles,  25,   S. ;  morocco-dresser,   So.   Danvers; 
d.  Danvers. 

McKay,   Edward  W.,    18,   S. ;   So.   Danvers;   student;   1910, 
Portis,  Kansas. 

Manning,  Charles  L.,  18,  S. ;  student,  So.  Danvers;  d.  Jan. 
31,  1905.  S.  H.,  Chelsea, 

Harden,  John  W.,  34,  M. ;  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers ;  dis.   Jan. 

13,  '62,  disa.,  Newbern. 

Marsh,  George  E.,  26,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Lynn. 
tMoore,  Benj.  N.,   21,   S. ;   clerk,   So.   Danvers;  vide   Co.   C, 

100  days,  '64,  Corp. 
Moore,    George   W.,   32,    S.;   shoemaker,    So.   Danvers;    dis. 

April  28,    '63,   disa.,   Newbern. 
Nevers,  Charles  W.,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  later  Corp., 

13th   Unattached   Company,    1864;   1910,   Lowell. 
Osborn,  Amos,  3d,  22,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers. 
Osgood,  Joseph  II.,  22,  S. ;  chemist,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  May  18, 

1904,  Peabody. 
Peasley,  Austin  J.,  20,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  later  29th 

Unattached  Company,  H.  Arty.,   '64;  d.  Jan.  19,  1908, 

S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
Peasley,  Thomas  W.,  24,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  d.  Dec. 

14,  1908,  Peabody. 

Perkins,  Albert  IT.,  20,  S. ;  shoe-cutter,  So.  Danvers. 
Perkins,   William  H.,   18,   S. ;   teamster,   So.  Danvers;  later 

Co.  L,  1st  Cav. 
Pemberton,  Frank  A.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  1900, 

Peabody. 
Plummer,  Enoch  F.,  27,  M. ;  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers. 


COMPANY  C. 


391 


Wm.  H.  Hildreth  (C). 
Geo.  E.  Marsh  (C). 


C.  \V.  Xevers  (C). 

D.  A.  Small  (C). 


Poor,  George  II.,  18,  S. ;  shoe-cutter,   So.   Danvers;  d.  1894, 

Peabody. 

Ray,  Thomas  A.,  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers. 
Rhodes,  Alphonso  P.,  18,  S. ;  student,  So.  Danvers. 
Rhodes,  Joseph,  43,  M. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers:  later  Co.  L,  4th 

Cav. ;  1897,  Peabody. 
tRose,  Frederick  J..  32,  M. ;  tailor,  Marlboro;  as  "John  F." 

had  served  in  Co.  I,  13th  Mass.;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days, 

1864;  Corp. 


392        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Rust,  Elbridge,  32,  S. :     tanner,     So.     Danvers;  d.     Feb.  11, 

1895,  Peabody. 

Sanborn,  John  F.,  25,  M. ;  baker,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  Feb.  7, 

1906,  Salem. 
Searl,  George,  34,  M. ;  painter,  So.  Danvers;  d.  Nov.  23,  1902, 

Peabody. 

Small.  Daniel  A.,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Woburn. 
Southwick,  Lewis  B.,  19,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers; 

1910,  Peabody. 
Southwick,  Win.  II.,  36,  S. ;  seaman,  So.  Danvers ;  dis.  June 

18,    '63,   disa.,   Newbern. 
Stone,  Frederick  T.,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  later  Co. 

K,  2d  II.  Arty.;  d.  April  30,  1896,  Lynn. 
Sumner,  John  A.  P.,  21,  M. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers; 

1910,  Peabody. 
fSwett,  Joseph  II.,  18,  S. ;  farmer.  So.  Danvers ;  vide  Co.  C, 

100  days,   '64,  Corp. 
Symonds,  Benj.  R.,  18,  S. ;  milkman,  So.  Danvers;  later  1st 

Lieut.,  Co.  H,  59th  Mass. 
tTeel,  George  C.,  18,  S. ;  hostler,  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co.  C, 

100  days,  1864. 
Towne,  Charles  A.,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  So.  Danvers;  dis.  Feb.  9, 

'63,  disa.,  Boston;  did  not  leave  Mass. 
Trask,    Charles,    33,  —  ;   farmer,    So.    Danvers ;   d.   June   12, 

1896,  Peabody. 

Tufts,  Albert,  20,  S. ;  wool-puller,  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Pea- 
body. 

Upton,  George  A.,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  So.  Danvers;  dis.  Feb.  2, 
'63,  disa.,  Boston ;  did  not  leave  Mass. ;  1910,  Magnolia. 

Walkup,  James,  E.,  28,  M. ;  bootmaker,  Ashland ;  d.  Jan.  12, 
1903,  Ashland. 

Warner,  Lorenzo  D.,  42,  M. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers. 

t Waterman,  James  L..  18,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co. 
C,  100  days,  '64,  Corp. 

Webster,   Caleb   A.,   23,   M. ;   farmer.  So.   Danvers;  d.   June 

29,  '63,  So.  Danvers. 

Whidden,  Albert  II.,   19,  S. ;  painter,  So.  Danvers;  d.  May 

30,  1910,  Peabody. 

Wiggin,  Andrew  J.,   39,   M. ;   teamster.   So.   Danvers;   1910, 

Peabody. 
Winchester,  Beuj.  J.,  23,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers; 

d.  Jan.  21.  1907,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  D.  393 

COMPANY  D. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  M.  I.  Sept.  16,  1862;  M.  O.  July  2, 
1863.) 

*Served  in  3  months'  term.  I  Served  in  100  days'  term.  |j  Helped 
suppress  draft  riots,  Boston. 

CAPTAIN. 

*||Thomas  F.  Howard,  29,  M. ;  glass-cutter,  Charlestown ;  D. 
of  C.,  Aug.  9,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  C,  3 
mos.,  1861;  later  Corp.,  Co.  K,  4th  Cav. ;  1910,  Chelsea. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

:||tGeorge  H.  Mardeu,  Jr.,  23,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown ;  vide 
Co.  C,  3  mos..  '61,  and  Co.  D,  100  days,  '64. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

*||tCharles  P.  Whittle,  22,  M. ;  polisher,  Charlestown;  vide 
Co.  C,  3  mos.,  '61,  and  Co.  D,  100  days,  '64. 

SERGEANTS. 

:||Valentine  Wallburg  (1st),  20,  M. ;  gunsmith,  Charlestown; 
vide  Co.  C,  3  mos.,  1861;  b.  Dec.  12,  1841,  Boston;  ma 
chinist  and  gumnaker:  from  '76  to  '78  instructor 
vise-work,  M.  I.  T. ;  since  1883  foreman  Gas  &  Light 
Cos.,  Boston  and  Lynn,  and  Genl.  Electric  Co.,  Sche- 
nectady,  N.  Y. ;  1910,  Lynn. 

*||tGeorge  W.  Kilham,  24,  S. ;  stone-cutter,  Charlestown; 
vide  Co.  C,  3  mos.,  '61,  also  Co.  D,  100  days,  '64,  2d 
Lieut. 

*||tGeorge  Chell,  34,  S. ;  hackman,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  C, 
3  mos.,  '61,  also  Co.  D,  100  days.  '64. 

|| t John  E.  Marden,  21,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D, 
100  days,  1864. 

| |f Edward  G.  Fox,  22,  S. ;  cabinet-maker,  Charlestown;  app. 
from  Corp.  Feb.  1,  '63:  vide  Co.  D,  100  days,  1864. 


394        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

George  W.  Whittle,  33,  M. ;  polisher,  Charlestown ;  dis.  Feb. 
5,   '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 


CORPORALS. 

:||William  G.  Ash,  26,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

C,  3  mos.,  1861. 
*|| Albion  B.  Perham,  35,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  C,  3  mos.,  1861. 
*||Joseph  F.  Dwight,  38,  S. ;  carriage-painter,  Charlestown; 

vide  Co.  C,  3  mos,.,  1861. 
George  IT.  McLeod,  25,  M. ;  chalker,  Charlestown ;  dis.  Feb. 

3,   '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 

Samuel  R.  Marple,  20,  S. ;  miller,  Charlestown. 
Joseph  A.  Crawford,  22,  M. ;  en.  Sept,  30,   '62 ;  M.  I.  Oct. 

1,  '62;  app.  Corp.  Jan.  1,  '63. 
j|Edwin  Farmiloe,  32,  M. ;  cabinet-maker,  Charlestown;  en. 

and  M.  I.  Sept,  22,  '62 ;  app.  Corp.  Jan.  20,  '63. 
|| t Alexander  E.  Hews,   22,  S. ;  founder,  Charlestown;   app. 

Corp.  Jan.  1,  '63;  vide  Co.  D,  100  days,  '64. 
||Charles  II.  Arnold,  30,  M. ;  artist,  Charlestown;  app.  Corp. 

Feb.  1,  '63. 

MUSICIANS. 

Albert  B.  Whittle,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
||Albert  Nelson,  17,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 


PRIVATES. 

f  Abbott,  Albert  C.,  23,   S. ;  machinist,   Charlestown ;  vide 

Co.  D,  100  days,  1864. 
||Abrams,  Charles  B.,  26,  M. ;  apothecary,  Charlestown;  en. 

and  M.  I.  Oct.  9,  '62. 
||Ahern,  Michael,  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M. 

I.    Oct.  14,  '62 ;  d.  Feb.  25,  1896,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
||Alden,  John  C.,  23,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  dis.  Feb. 

5,  '63,  disa.,  Newbern ;  d.  July  13,  1906,  Boston. 
Ayers,  John  H.,  23,  M. ;  stamper,   Charlestown ;  later  14th 

Batterv. 


COMPANY  D.  395 

jjBailey,  Henry  C..  21,  S. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown. 
Bailey,  William,  38,  M. ;  brass-moulder,  Charlestown. 
Battiste,  John  B.,   30,   S. ;  painter,    Charlestown;    d.    1903, 

Charlestown. 

Bibrim,  Joseph,  24,  S. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown. 
Boynton,  William  P.,  28,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  later 

*Co.  E,  39th  Mass. ;  d.  Aug.  29,  1892,  Somerville. 
Brackett,  Isaac  W.,  28,  M. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
*||Branch,  Hiram  R.,   32,   M. ;  teamster,   Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  C,  3  mos,,  1861. 
||tCarney,   Charles,  J..   18,   S. ;   photographer,   Charlestown; 

vide  Co.  D,  100  days,  1864. 
||fCassidy,  Philip  E..  24,  S. ;  joiner,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

D,  100  days,  1864. 
*|  (Chamberlain,  John  II..  29,  M. ;  fireman,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  C,  3  mos.,  1861. 
j|Clough,  William.  18,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown;  later  Co. 

D,  2d  II.  Arty. 

Coleman,  William,  29,  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
(Collins.  Daniel,  20,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Charlestown. 
Conlin,  Peter,  18,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  dis.  April  — , 

'63,  while  on  furlough  in  Mass.,  on  account  of  wounds 

ree'd  at  Whitehall,  Dec.  16.  '62;  later  May  9,  '63,  U.  S. 

Navy;  d.  July  10,  1903,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
jjDelaney,  Daniel,  18,  S. ;  tin-stamper,  Charlestown. 
Delano,  Frank  E.,  22.  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
Dickson,  Walter  E.,  31,  M. ;  grocer,  Charlestown. 
jjDoyle,  Michael  B.,  23,   S. ;  rope-maker,   Charlestown;   dis. 

March  23.  '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 
[(Doyle,  William,  23,  8.;  rope-maker,  Charlestown ;  en.  and 

M.  I.  Sept,  27,  '62. 
||fDurgin,  John  J.,  23,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D, 

100  days,  1864. 
HfEsler,  George  H.,  27,  S.;  carriage-painter,    Charlestown; 

vide  Co.  C,  100  days,  1864. 
||Evans,   King   S.,   22,   S.';   teamster,   Charlestown;   d.   1900, 

Maiden. 

Ewing,   Robert  T.,   32,   M. ;  machinist,   Charlestown. 
*Gabriel,  William  E.,  43,  M. ;  teamster,  Saugus ;  vide  Co.  C, 

3  mos.,  1861. 
Green,  Thomas  B.,  29.  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  en.  and 

M.  I.  Oct.  7,  '62;  dis.  March  23,  '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 


396        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Ham.  Frederic,  20,  S. ;  grocer,  Charlestown. 

Hardy,  William  A.,  25,  M. ;  brass-founder,  Charlestown ;  wd. 

Goldsboro;    1910,   Fitchburg. 
||fHichborn,  Henry,  21,  S. ;  student,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

H,  100  days,  1864. 
||Hitchings,   Lawson,  23,   S. :  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown; 

later  Co.  A,  3d  Cav. 
Jackman,  William,  44,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Charlestown ;  en.  and 

M.  I.  Oct.  14,  '62 ;  des.  Oct.  23,  '62,  AVenham. 
Johnson,  Lewis  E.,  21,   S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  en.  and 

M.  I.  Sept.  22,  '62. 
Jones,   Charles,   24,   S. ;   laborer,   Charlestown ;   dis.   June   6, 

'63,  Newbern,  to  re-en.  Co.  C,  2d  H.  Arty. 
||King,   Joseph  F.,   19,   M. ;  painter,   Charlestown. 
Laighton,    Thomas,    34,    M. ;    carpenter,    Charlestown;   later 

14th  Battery. 
Leach,  Charles  E.,  31,  M. ;  carriage-painter,  Charlestown;  M. 

I.  as  Charles  E.  Bowers. 
IJLewis,  Charles  E.,  21,  S. ;  seaman,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M. 

I.  Oct.  6,  '62;  later  Co.  B,  61st  Mass.;  1910,  Charlestown. 
Lynch,  John,  23,  M. ;  potter,  Charlestown. 

Maguire,   Thomas,    24,    S. ;   laborer,   Charlestown ;   en.   and 

M.  I.   Sept.  22,    '62. 
||Marden,  Charles,  17,  S. ;  rigger,  Charlestown;  later  Co.  D, 

2d  H.  Arty. 

|  McElroy,  Edward,  20.  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
|  McFarland,  William,  18,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 

I  fMcLeod,  John,  30,  M. ;  rope-maker,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

D,  100  days,  1864. 

I 1  Moult  on,     Frank     B.,     22,     S. ;     teamster,     Charlestown; 

later  Co.  C,   1st  Cav. 

Murray,  William  F.,  19,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Charlestown. 
||Niles,  James,  26,  S. ;  watchman,  Charlestown. 
O'Brien,  John,  20,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M.  I., 

Oct.  11,  '62;  des.  Oct.  23,  '62. 
||0'Neil,  Thomas,  24,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M.  I. 

Oct.  11,   '62. 
f  Palmer,  Samuel,  Jr.,  27,  S. ;  founder,  Charlestown ;  dis.  Nov. 

II,  '62,  disa. ;  vide  Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 
Parker,  Charles,  19,  S. ;  cook,  Boston. 

Perley,  Elbridge  G.,  28,  M. ;  sign-painter,  Chelsea;  had  served 
in  Co.  H,  1st  Mass. 


COMPANY   E.  397 

Pierce,  David  H.,  22,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown ;  en. 

and  M.  I.  Sept.  30,   '62. 
||fPoor,  James  W.,  23,   S. ;  chair-maker,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  D,  100  days,  1864. 
||tRandall,  John  C.,  17,  S. ;  confectioner,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  D,  100  days,  1864. 
||tRichardson,  George  H.,  21,  S. ;  potter,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 

||Robbins,  Samuel  W.,  31,  M. ;  mason,  Charlestown. 
Rogers,  Matthew  H.,  22,  S. ;  cooper,  Charlestown ;  later  U. 

S.  Navy. 

||Sendall,  Henry  J.,  28,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 
Smith,  Charles,  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M.I. 

Oct.   9,    '62;   des.   Oct.   23,    '62,  Wenham. 
Sweeney,  James,  22,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  en.  and  M.  I. 

Oct.  11,  '63;  des.  Oct.  23,  '62,  Wenham. 
Tannatt,  George  S.,  39,  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
Thompson,  Isaac,  35,  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  d.  Dec.  17, 

1896,  West  Brookfield. 

Trumbull,  John  B.,  30,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
|Upton,  Samuel,  32,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
Walden,  William  II.,  22,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
fWard,  John,  24,  M. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D, 

100  days,  1864. 
||Williams,  David  0.,  28,  M. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  en.  and 

M.   I.   Oct.   7,    '62;    wd.    Goldsboro;     later     unassigned 

recruit,   1st  Batt.,   H.   Arty. 
^Williams,  Thomas,  en.  Sept.  16,  '62,  Charlestown;  X.  F.  R,, 

except   his   former  service   in   Co.    C,   3   mos.,   1861. 
|| Winters,  Richard  M.,  21,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Charlestown; 

en.  and  M.  I.  Oct.  14,  '62. 


COMPANY  E. 

(Unless    otherwise    stated,    all    M.    I.    Sept.    16,    1862;    M.    O.    July 

2,  1863.) 

^Served  in  3  months'  term.     tServed  in  100  days'   term. 

CAPTAIN. 

John  Kent,  33,  S. ;  merchant,  Boston;  D.  of  C.  Sept.  3,   '62; 
M.  O,  with  regiment;  d.  Oct.  29,  1908,  Boston. 


398        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

George  Myrick,  28,  S. ;  merchant,  Boston;  D.  of  C.  Sept,  3, 
'62;  Aid  on  staff  of  Col.  H.  C.  Lee,  commanding 
brigade,  Dec.  7,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment, 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Andrew  J.  Holbrook,  29,  M. ;  bookkeeper,  Cambridge;  D. 
of  C.,  Sept.  3,  '62 ;  detached  as  2d  Lieut.,  Signal  Corps, 
Nov.  24,  '62;  res.  Aug.  19,  '64;  d.  Jan.  2,  1910,  Mat- 
tapan. 

SERGEANTS. 

*tEdwin  F.  Wyer  (1st),  29,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn ;  vide  Co.  I, 

3  mos. ;  also  Co.  G,  100  days,  1864. 
Isaac   Myrick,   Jr.,   30,    S. ;    editor,   Yarmouth;    d.   Dec.    13, 

1900,  Jamaica  Plain. 

George  A.  Bearing,  43,  M. ;  teacher,  Cambridge. 

Jairus  Lincoln,  Jr.,  31,  M. ;  teacher,  Yarmouth;  d.  1894. 

Lewis  H.  Kingsbury,  33.  M. ;  tailor,  Ashland. 

CORPORALS. 

Zoeth  Snow,  Jr.,  35.  M. :  blacksmith,  Brewster;  d.  Sept.  26, 

1901,  Brewster. 

Daniel  Wing,  21,  S. ;  teacher.  So.  Yarmouth;  1910,  Maynard, 

111. 
Horatio  Howes,  43,  M. ;  mariner,  Dennis ;  d.  1894,  Dennis. 

1898,  Ashland. 
Henry   Perkins,    36,   S. :    boot-maker,   Ashland ;   d.   Nov.   23, 

1898,  Ashland. 
Edmund  Matthews,  32.   M. ;  carpenter,  Dennis ;  d.  Jan.  27, 

1902,  Dennis. 

Frank   A.   Wall,    22,    M. ;    carpenter,    Ashland ;    app.    Corp., 

March  15,  '63;  d.  May  18,  1899,  Charlestown. 
Joseph  D.  Bragdon,  35,  M. ;  painter,  Cambridge ;  app.  March 

28,  '63;  later  llth  Battery;  d.  1900,  Boston. 
Alfred  C.  Finney,  21,  S. ;  baker,  Hyannis ;  d.  March  13,  '63, 

Academy  Genl.  Hospital,  Newbern ;  congestive  chill. 
George  E.  Hopkins,  34,  M. ;  carpenter,  Barnstable ;  dis.  May 

28,    '63,  disa.,  Newbern. 


COMPANY  E. 


399 


MUSICIANS. 


Robert  Wallace  Allen,  14,  S. ;  farmer's  boy,  Essex;  des.  Mar. 

18,  '63;  en.  first  in  Co.  A,  48th  Mass.,  and  was  trans,  to 

Co.  E,  of  the  5th,  October,  '62. 
Edwin  IT.  Lincoln,  14,  S. ;  student,  Yarmouth. 


PRIVATES. 


Ackers,  John  L.   P.,   26,  M. ;  painter,  Cambridge ;   18  years 

Q.  M.,  Post  30,  G.  A.  R. ;  d.  Oct.  25,  1910,  Cambridge. 
Baker,  Charles  P.,  36,  M. ;  saddler,  Yarmouth. 


Darius  Baker  (E). 


Albert  B.  Comey  (E). 


Webster  Brooks  (E) 


Baker,  Darius,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Yarmouth ;  b.  Jan.  18,  1845,  So. 
Yarmouth ;  grad.  Wesleyan  University,  1870 ;  teaching 
and  studying  laAV  till  1875 ;  began  practice  of  law  in 
Newport,  R.  I. ;  successively  judge  of  probate,  trial 
justice  and  judge  of  Superior  Court ;  1910,  Newport, 

Baker,  George  II.,  26,  S. ;  farmer,  Yarmouth;  1910,  So.  Yar 
mouth. 

Baker,  Sylvester  F.,  26,  S. ;  harness-maker,  Dennis ;  1910, 
West  Dennis, 


400        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Baker,  Watson,  35,  M. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth. 

Baker,  Washington  I.,  19,  S. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth. 

Barrett,  James,  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Cambridge. 

fBrooks,  Webster,  21,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Ashland;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days. 

Chamberlain,   George   S.,   21,   M. ;   shoe-cntter,   Ashland. 
Chase,  Edwin,  24,  M. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth ;  d.  July  2,  1902, 

Yarmouth. 
Chase,  Lawrence,  18,  S. ;  printer,  Hyannis;  later  Co.  P,  3d 

H.  Arty. 
Chickering,  Francis  H.,  40,  M. ;  bootmaker,  Ashland ;  1910, 

Ashland. 

Coleman,  Isaac  N.,  25,  M. ;  mariner,  Barnstable. 
Comey,  Albert  B.,  30,  M. ;  miller,  Ashland;  1910,  So.  Fram- 

ingham. 

Considine,  John,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Dennis;  1910,  Brewster. 
Crosby,  James  F.,  27,  M. ;  mariner,  Brewster ;  d.  April,  1903, 

Brewster. 
Davis.    S.    Augustus,   22,    S. ;   bootmaker,    Ashland;   later   as 

Augustus  J.,  Co.  E,  2d  Cav. ;  for  many  years  kept  news 
stand,  Ashland;  1910,  Ashland. 
Eldridge,  Ebenezer,  37,  M. ;  brick-maker,  Barnstable ;  later 

Co.  A,  58th  Mass. ;  k.  May  12,  '64,  Spottsylvania. 
Eldridge,  Thomas  R.,  27,  M. ;  butcher,  Barnstable;  wd.  Dec. 

16.  '62,  Whitehall;  dis.  April  1,  '63,  disa. 
Ellis,  Frederick  N.,  18,  S. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth. 
Ellis,  George  A.,  19,  S. ;  engineer,  Ashland. 
Ellis,  Warren  H.,  20,  S. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth. 
Fairbanks,  Levi,  22,  S. ;  engineer,  Ashland;  d.  Sept.  9,  1897, 

Ashland. 
Finney,  Charles  E.,  20,  M. ;  baker,  Barnstable;  d.  May  13, 

1908.  Medford. 
Fisher,  George  S.,  33,  M. ;  leather-cutter,  Ashland;  d.  Jan.  30, 

1906,  Ashland. 

Foss,  Joseph,  38,  M. ;  engineer,  Cambridge. 
Frail,  Henry  M.,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Ashland. 
Gowell,  John  M.,  25,  M. ;  carpenter.  Ashland. 
Gray,   Edmund  H.,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Yarmouth;  left  sick  at 

Yarmouth  and  never  joined  for  duty. 

Greenleaf,  John  W.,  35,  M. ;  farmer,  Dennis;  d.  1900,  Dennis. 
Greenwood,  Marcena  M.,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Ashland. 


COMPANY  E. 


401 


F.  Thachcr  (E). 


B.  F.  Wyman  (E). 


A.  A.  Kingsloy  (E). 


Hall,   George   G.,   23,    8.;   shoemaker,   Xatick ;   later   Co    M 

2d   II.   Arty.,   and  F,   17th   Mass. 
Hall,  Iliram  II.,  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Dennis. 
Hall.  Jeremiah  G.,  25.  M. ;  stone-cutter,  Dennis, 
tlhill.  Joseph   AY.,   1!),   S. ;  farmer,   Dennis;   vide  Co.   G,  100 

days,  1864. 
tllall,  Luther,  If),  S. ;  clerk,   Dennis-  vide  Co    G    100  days 

1 864. 
Ilarrirnan,  Henry  G.,  25,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Ashland;  d.  June  13, 

'63,  Newbern. 
Hartshorn,  Joseph  W.,  21,  S. ;  bootmaker,  Ashland;  later  Co. 

I),  2d  Cav. 
Howes,   Edwin.   35,   M. ;   trader,   Dennis;   dis.    May   28,    '63, 

(lisa.;  d.  Jan.  12,  1893,  Dennis, 

Howes,  Henry  F.,  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Dennis;  1910,  Dennis. 
Ivers.  Ixobert  A.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Cambridge;  later  Hosp.-stew., 

LI.   S.  A.;  1910,   S.  II.,   Togns,  Me. 

Jenkins,  Ellis,  17,  S. ;  clerk,  Cambridge;  later  16th  Battery. 
Jones,  Eliphalet  J.,  20,  M. ;  bootmaker,  Ashland. 
Jones,   Enoch  C.,  44,  At.;  bootmaker,  Brewster. 
Jones,  .James  B.,  18.  S. ;  farmer,  Barnstable. 
Kingsley,  Albert  A.,  19,  S. ;  hostler,  Barnstable;  later  Co.  L, 

2d  II.  Arty.;  1910,  Dighton. 

26 


402        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Libber,  Allen,  28,  8.;  machinist.  Cambridge. 

McAnaney,  Thomas,  29.  M.;  boot-fitter,  Cambridge. 

McCarta,  Elom  S.,  31,  M. ;  mariner,  Yarmouth. 

McCurdy,  George  A.,  33,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Cambridge. 

Mansir,  John,  44,  S. ;  carpenter,  Barnstable;  d.  Aug.  7,  1900, 
Yarmouth. 

Marchand,    Allen,    23,    M. ;    mariner,    Barnstable. 

Morse,  Ezra,  27,  M. ;  trader,  Ashland;  b.  Jan.  3, 
1835,  Ashland;  went  to  California,  1857;  coal 
and  lumber  dealer,  Ashland;  deputy  sheriff, 
Middlesex  Co.,  three  years;  wool  purchaser,  Texas; 
charter  member,  Post  18,  G.  A.  R.,  Past  Commander  and 
present  Adjutant;  1910,  Ashland. 

fMoulton,  Elbridge,  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Ashland;  vide  Co.  G, 
100  days. 

Myrick,  Joseph  A.,  19,  S. ;  farmer.  Brewster. 

Ockington,  Joseph  P.,  18,  S. ;  bootmaker,  Ashland;  later  19th 
Unattached  Company. 

Oler,  Herman,  30,    M. ;  farmer,  Hyannis. 

Paine,  Benjamin  F.,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Brewster. 

Parker,  John  A.,  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Ashland;  d.  March  10, 
1907,  Worcester. 

Payne,  E.  Dexter,  22,  M. ;  trader.  Yarmouth;  d.  1908,  Yar 
mouth. 

Perkins,  Augustus,  29,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Ashland;  had  been^m 
band,  llth  Mass. ;  later  served  in  band,  1st  Brig.,  2d  Div., 
2d  Army  Corps. 

Perry,  Russell,  40,  M. ;  polisher.  Cambridge ;  d.  Jan.  4,  1891. 
s!  II.,  Chelsea,  ae.  74  years. 

Pollard,  Charles  C.,  27,  M. ;  clerk,  Ashland;  later  Corp.,  Co. 
K,  4th  II.  Arty. 

Richardson,  George  W.,  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Cambridge. 

Riley,  William  J.,  24,  S. ;  gilder,  Cambridge  ;  1910,  Maiden. 

Rourke,  James  E.,  22,  M. ;  nail-maker,  Cambridge ;  1910, 
Roxbury. 

Scoboria,  Peter  G.,  27,  M. ;  brass-founder.  Cambridge;  1910, 
Oldham,  N.  II. 

Seabury,  Josiah  W.,  18,  S. ;  farmer.  Brewster;  1910,  Paw- 
tucket,  R.  I. 

Sharp,  William,  19,  S. ;  teamster,  Ilyannis;  d.  Boston. 

Skerry,  Michael,  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Lynn;  later  T.  S.  Navy. 


COMPANY  F.  403 

Slocum,  Smith  P.,  28,  M. ;  mariner.  Barnstable. 

Smaller,  Peter  B.,  34,  M. ;  carpenter,  Dennis. 

Snow,  David.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Yarmouth;  1910,  Brockton. 

Spooner,  Stephen,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Ashland;  later  Co.  B,  2d 
Cav. 

Stiles.  Arthur  AY.,  H).  S. ;  mariner,  Ashland;  later  Co.  D,  2d 
Cav. 

Stokoe,  Robert  IT.,  23,  M. ;  clerk,  Cambridge. 

Thacher,  Franklin,  20.  S. ;  clerk,  Yarmouth  ;  1910,  Yarmouth. 

Wenzcll,  Dana  M.,  18,  S. ;  hostler,  Ashland;  for  many  years 
a  teamster  and  still  resident  in  Ashland,  1910. 

Wheeler,  William  IT..  18,  S. ;  farmer.  Ashland;  later  Co.  H, 
2d  Cav. 

Wilkinson,  William,  40.  M. ;  tinsmith,  Cambridge;  d.  Nov.  8, 
1899,  Mattapan. 

Wyman,  Benjamin  P..  23,  M. ;  farmer,  Lancaster;  b.  May  25, 
1839,  Lancaster;  though,  since  1883,  salesman  for 
Leatheroid  Mfg.  Co.,  Kennebunk,  Me.,  his  home  is  still 
on  the  farm,  held  by  himself  and  direct  ancestors.  186 
years,  six  generations ;  many  years  deacon  Cong, 
church,  as  were  father  and  grandfather  before  him; 
Pres.  Francis  Wyman  Ass.  of  America  ;  was  instrumen 
tal  in  formation  of  regimental  band  ;  has  been  Yice-pres. 
and  Pres.  Yeteran  Ass.  of  the  regiment. 

COMPANY  F. 

(Unless   otherwise    stated,   all   M.    I.    Sept.    123,   1862;    M.    O.    July   -2, 
18(53.) 

^Served  in  3  months'   term.       tServed  in  100   days'   term.       i  Helped 
suppress    draft    riots,    Boston. 

CAPTAIN. 

t||Charles  Currier,  33,  M. ;  trader.  Medf ord ;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
15.  '62;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  vide  F.  &  S..  100  days, 
1864. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*  Alfred  Haskell,  31,  S. ;  shipwright,  Medford ;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
15,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  E,  3  mos.,  1861; 
b.  April  14,  1831.  Medford;  prominent  in  Free  Masonry, 
G.  A.  R.,  police  force;  d.  May  10.  1906,  Medford. 


404         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


Darius  Baker  (E). 
E.  F.  Wyer  (E). 


B.  F.  Wyman  (E). 
Chas.  Currier  (F). 


COMPANY  F.  405 

SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

*Elisha  X.  Peirce,  23,  S. ;  farmer,  Medford ;  D.  of  C.,  Sept.  15, 

'62;  detached  for  service  in  the  U.  S.  Signal  Corps,  Nov. 

.24,   '62;  M.  0.  Jan.  2,    '64;  vide  3  mos..,  1861;  b.  West. 

Medford,  Aug.  21,  1839;  life  devoted  to  floriculture;  d. 

Oct.  30,   1904,  Waltham. 

SERGEANTS. 

James  F.  Ginn   (1st),  21,  S. ;  grocer,  Medford;  d.  April  12, 

1905,  Charlestown. 
| George   W.   Williamson,   34,    M.;   ship-joiner.   Medford;   d. 

April  15,  1896,  Charlestown. 
*David  0.  Russell,  24,  S. ;  clerk,  .Medford;  vide  3  mos.,   '61; 

later  in  Signal  Corps. 
||Francis  A.  Lander,  43,  M. ;  ship-joiner,  Medford  ;  d.  Nov. 

13,  1908,  Cambridge. 
Charles  Russell,  27.  M.;  attorney,  Medford. 

CORPORALS. 

George  M.  Teel,  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 

Lyman  W.  Lee,  25,  S. ;  teacher,  Medford;  later  1st  Sergt., 

Co.  M,  2d  II.  Arty. 

Everett  Newhall,  32,  M. ;  house-carpenter,  Medford. 
Edwin  C.  Burbank,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 
llJosiah  W.  Parker,  42,  M. ;  carpenter.  Medford. 
||George  V.  Kimball,  37,  M. ;  butcher,  Medford ;  later  band, 

U.  S.  A. 
Augustus  G.  Baxter,  28,  M. ;  upholsterer.  Medford ;  d.  April 

9,  1909,  Wakefield. 
||Silas  A.  Wild,  44,  M. ;  auctioneer,  Medford. 

MUSICIANS. 

t||Charles  H.  Prentiss,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford;  vide  Co.  H, 

100  days,  1864. 
|[Lucius  L.   Wolley,   22,    S. ;   watchmaker,   Medford. 

WAGONER. 
Charles  C.  Pierce,  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Medford. 


406          FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

PRIVATES. 

Adams,  Joseph  D.,  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Medford. 
||Adams,  Samuel,  42,  M. ;  dentist,  Medford. 
Bagley,    Alonzo  J.,  23,  S. ;  seaman,  Medford. 
Barker,  Wm.  II.  S.,  24,  M. ;  ship-carpenter,  Medford. 
Black,  Lewis,  23,  S. ;  cigar-maker,  Medford. 
Bragdon,  George  W.,  29,  M. ;  house-carpenter,  Medford. 
Bresnahan,  Jeremiah,  26,  M. ;  mason,  Medford ;  dis.  March 

13.  '63,  Washington,  D.  C.,  insanity. 
||Brown,  Hiram,  35,  M. ;  painter,  Medford;  d.  Sept.  30,  1890, 

S.  H.,  Chelsea,  a?.  63  years. 
Burbank,  William  H.,  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford;  prom.  Q.  M. 

Sergt.,  Oct.  8,  '62,  F.  &  S. 

Butters,  Andrew,  28,  M. ;  laborer,  Medford ;  dead. 
Clark,  Gorham  B.,  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Medford. 
llCiirrell,  Elbridge   G.,  44,    M. ;    grocer,    Medford;    d.    1896, 

Charlestown. 

Currell,  Elbridge  G.,  Jr.,  24,  S. ;  laborer,  Medford. 
Curtin,  Andrew,  27,  widower ;  boot-former,  Medford. 
||Curtin,  Francis,  25,  S. ;  laborer,  Medford;  later  Co.  A,  28th 

Mass.;  d.  of  wds.  July  1,  '64. 
Darling,  Theodore,  22,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Medford. 
Davis,  Samuel,  25,  M. ;  farmer,  Medford. 
Denham,  David  A.,  25,  M. ;  carpenter,  Medford ;  later  Sergt., 

Co.  B,  61st  Mass. 

Dwyer,  Thomas,  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Medford. 
Farley,  Thomas,  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Medford. 
Fett,  Jacob,  29,  M. ;  stone-cutter,  Medford;  d.  July  30,  1903, 

Roxbury. 
Garner,  James,  21,  S. ;  moulder,  Boston;  later  14th  Battery; 

found  dead  on  R.  R.  track,  Lynn,  March  18,  1891;  in 
mate    S.  II.,  Chelsea;  real  name  McGleish. 
||Gee,  Nathaniel,  28,  M. ;  porter,  Medford. 
Gilson,  William.  38,  S. ;  stone-cutter,  Medford. 
Gould,  Thomas,  24,  M. ;  farmer,  Medford. 
1 1 Gray,  Arthur  W.,   18,  S. ;  errand-boy,  Medford;  later  Co. 

D,  42d  Mass.;  100  days,  1864. 
Harding,  Stephen,  37,  M. ;  laborer,  Medford ;  d.  June  17,  '63, 

Newbern. 

Harding,  William,  41,  M. ;  laborer,  Medford. 
||Hartshorn,  Hollis,  41,  M. ;  currier,  Modford 


COMPANY  F.  407 

||Hayford,    Seth,   31,    M. ;   farmer,    Medford. 

Hendarkin.  Timothy,  42,  M.;  laborer,  Medford ;  des.  Oct. 
6,  '62,  Wenhaml 

Hervey,  Frank,  24,   S. ;  clerk,   Medford;  1910,  Medford. 

Hines,  Ira,  21,  S. ;  seaimin,  Medford;  dis.  June  6,  '63,  to  re-en. 
Co.  C,  2d  II.  Arty. 

||Hooker,  David  S.,  Jr.,  18,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Medford;  d.  Oct. 
17,  1904.  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 

Howard,  James,  28,  M. ;  baker,  Medford. 

||Howe,  Humphrey  B.,  44,  M. ;  teacher,  Medford. 

|i James,  John,  21*  S. ;  painter,  Medford;  1896,  Medford. 

Jones.  William  E.,  26,  M. ;  carpenter,  Medford. 

Keene,  Atwell  C.,  22,  S. ;  l)laeksmith,  Medford;  dis,  June  6, 
'63.  to  re-en.  Co.  C,  2d  II.  Arty. 

Kimball,  Isaiah  AY.,  22,  8.;  butcher,  Medford. 

||Lawrence,  William.  44.  widower;  carpenter,  Medford;  d. 
1896. 

Litchfield,  Joseph  V.,  40,  M. ;  carpenter,  Medford ;  d.  Jan.  2, 
1899,  Charlestown. 

||Locke.  James  I).,  24,  8. ;  ma,son,  Medford;  1910,  Charles- 
town. 

Looney,  Timothy,  32,  M.;  carpenter,  Medford ;  des.  Oct.  12, 
'63,  AVenham. 

Lord,  Stephen,   28,   S. ;  stone-cutter,   Medford. 

McAlear,  James,  33,  M. ;  painter,  Medford. 

McGillicuddy,  Daniel,  34.  M. ;  laborer,  Medford;  d.  Dec.  1, 
'62,  Xewbern. 

McGillicuddy,  James,  35,  M. ;  cloth-finisher,  Medford. 

McKinney,  Andrew.  36,  M. ;  harness-maker,  Medford ;  d.  be 
fore  1890. 

Mason,  Edwin  II.,  26,  S. ;  farmer,  Medford. 

Matthews,  Ebenezer  B.,  45,  AT. ;  shoemaker,  Medford. 

llMeans,  George  AAT.,  35,  M. ;  carpenter,  Medford;  1910,  Med 
ford. 

||Miller,  George  W.,  26.  M. ;  ship-joiner,  Medford. 

Miller,  William,  28,  8.;  confectioner,  Medford ;  des.  Oct.  12, 
'62,  AVenham. 

O'Brien,  Michael,  35,  M. ;  laborer.  Medford. 

IJO'Connell,  Michael,  44,  M. ;  sawyer,  Medford;  later  Co.  I, 
2d  H.  Arty. ;  d.  Sept.  20,  '63,  Andersonville.  Ga. 

Oliver,  Samuel  F.,  30,  M. ;  gas-fitter,  Medford;  b.  Lowell; 
d.  April  6,  1904,  S.  IT..  Togus,  Me. 


408 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M..  NINE  MONTHS. 


Page,  Ephraim  C.,  34,  S. ;  teamster,  Medford ;  d.  1896,  Med- 

fbrd. 

IJPeak,  Horatius  N.,  Jr.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 
||Powers,  James  M.,  30.  S. ;  painter,  Medford;  later  Co.  C, 

17th    Mass.;    d.    Aug.    17,    '64,    Anderson ville. 


Geo.  H.  Sampson  (F). 
Henry  Stock  (F). 


Frank  Hervey  (F). 
Lewis  Black  (F). 


Powell,  John  F.,  23,  S. ;  stucco-worker,  Medford. 
||Beed,  Alvin  E.,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 

Rich,  Stillman,  44,  M. ;  milkman,  Medford;  later  Corp.,  Co. 
E,  3d  H.  Arty. 


COMPANY  G.  409 

Riley,  Michael,  38,  M. ;  laborer,  Medford ;  en.  and  M.  I.  Oct. 

1,  '62. 

Sampson,  George  II.,  22,  8.;  clerk,  Medford;  1910,  N.  Y.  city. 
||Sanborn,  John  H.,  43,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Medford. 
Savers,  James,  22,  M. ;  seaman,  Medford;  N.  F.  R. 
Smith,  Frank  B.,  19,  S. ;  seaman,  Medford;  later  U.  S.  Navy 

and  1st  Battery,  trans,  to  9th  Battery. 

phens,   Alfred,   42,  M.;   painter,    Medford;  b.   England, 

1820;  many  years  policeman;  d.   Nov.,   1903,  Medford. 
||Stimpson,  Alden  M.,  38,  M. ;  carpenter,  Medford. 
Stock,  Henry,  27,  S. ;  druggist.  Medford. 
Tay,  Francis  J.,  43,  M. ;  tailor,  Medford ;  later  U.  S.  Signal 


Towle,  James,  21,  S. ;  currier,  Medford. 

Towle,  Sidney  M.,  25,  M. ;  farmer,  Medford. 

Tyler,   Daniel,   35,   M. ;   painter.   Medford;   des.   Oct.   6,    '62, 

Wenham. 

Walker,  Judson,  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Medford. 
||Wheeler,  "Win.  N.,  27,  S. ;  seaman,  Medford;  en.  Navy,  Aug., 

•'61;  later  Co.  M,2dH.  Arty.,  trans,  to  Co.  D,  17th  Mass. 
White,  John  M.,  27,  S. ;  teamster,  Medford. 
Willis,  Calvin  W..  27,   S. ;  teamster,   Medford;  later  Co.  C, 

17th  Mass.;  d.  July  17,  '64,  rebel  prison. 
Wood,  Dexter  T.,  34,  M. ;  painter,  Medford. 


COMPANY  G. 

(Unless    otherwise    stated,    all    M.    I.    Sept.    16,    1862;    M.    O.    July 
2,    3863.) 

*  Served    in    3    months'    term.      f  Served    in    100    days'    term. 


CAPTAIN. 

fWilliam  T.  Grammer.  40,  M. ;  shoe  manufacturer,  Woburn ; 
D.  of  C.,  Aug.  27,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide 
F.  &  S.,  100  days,  1864. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

t Charles  S.  Converse,  40,  M. ;  expressman,  Woburn;  D.  of  C,, 
Aug.  27,  '62;  vide  Co.  G,  100  days,  1864. 


410        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

William  A.  Colgate,  40,  M. ;  japanner,  Wobnrn ;  M.  0.  with 
regiment. 

SERGEANTS. 

John  P.  Stevens    (1st),  24,  M. ;  merchant,   Woburn. 
Horace    X.    Hastings,    33,    M. ;    printer,    Wobnrn ;    later    1st 

Sergt.,  Co.  B.  llth  Mass. ;  d.  Jan.  18,  1904,  Lynn. 
James  Walker,  37,  M.  •  currier,  Wobnrn;  d.  April  28,  1904, 

Woburn. 
*Thomas  Glynn,  45,  M. ;  currier,  Wobnrn ;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos., 

'61 ;  later  Co.  B,  llth  Mass. 
^Oliver  W.  Rogers,  21,  S. :  student,  Wobnrn;  vide  Co.  I,  3 

mos.,  1861  ;  d.  Nov.  8,  1907,  Taunton. 

CORPORALS. 

t Samuel  R.  Dolliver,  38,  M. ;  policeman,  Woburn;  vide  Co. 

G,  100  days,  1864. 
fThomas  T.  Ferguson,  28,  M. ;  wheelwright,  Woburn;  vide 

Co.  G,  100  days,  1864. 

Josiah  Brown,  45,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 
George  K.  Home  23,  S. ;  iron-moulder,  AVoburn ;  had  served 

in  Co.  C,  13th  Mass.;  later  was  in  Navy. 
tEphraim  W.  Hadley,  40,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co. 

G,  100  days,  1864. 
fSamuel  E.  Wyman,  27,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 

100  days, 'l  864. 
*  Joseph  Johnson,  43,  M. ;  currier,  Woburn  ;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos., 

1861;  d.  Dec.  11,  1898,  Woburn,  a?.  79-5-18. 
fThomas  J.  Hall,  26,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days,  1864. 

MUSICIANS. 

fThomas  V.  Sullivan,  31,  M. ;  gas  fitter,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 

100  days,  1864. 
Samuel   Rinn,   29,   S. ;   shoemaker,   Woburn;  later  band,   3d 

Brig.,   3d  Div.,  24th   Army  Corps;   1910,  Cambridge. 


COMPANY  G.  411 

WAGONER. 

John  B.  Davis,  42,  M. ;  teamster,  Woburn. 

PRIVATES. 

Ames,  Jacob,  39,  M. ;  shoemaker;  later  Corp.,  59th  Mass.;  d. 
Feb.,  1897,  Woburn. 

Bancroft,  George,  18.  S. ;  butcher,  Woburn ;  later  Co.  E,  16th 
Mass. ;  1910,  Lawrence. 

Blaisdell,  Irving  C.,  18,  S. ;  student,  Woburn;  1910,  physi 
cian,  Wilmore,  Perm. 

Bowers,  Charles  K.,  43,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 

Buckman,  Bowen,  2d,  42,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 

fBulfinch,  Edward,  20,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn ;  vide  Co.  D.  100 
days,  1864. 

Bulfinch,  Henry,  40,  M. ;  clerk,  Woburn;  later  Sergt.,  Co.  E, 
1st  Batt.,  II.  Arty.;  d.  1903,  Woburn. 

Burns,  John,  31,  M.;  currier,  Woburn. 

Buxton,  Marshall  F.,  25.  S. ;  expressman,  Woburn ;  d.  Jan. 
15,  1901,  8.  IT.,  Chelsea. 

Carroll.    Charles   E..    27,    M. ;    shoemaker,    Woburn. 

Carrol],  Jerome.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn. 

tChampney,  Edwin  G.,  19,  S. ;  artist,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 
100  days,  1864. 

Coleoate,  Wm.  C.  C.,  20,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn;  d.  1898,  Wo 
burn. 

tCottle,  Edmund  C.,  19,  8.;  currier,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 
days,  1864. 

Crockett,  Charles  L..  18,  8.;  clerk,  Boston. 

Cummings,  Francis,  23,  8. ;  currier,  Woburn. 

Cummings,  Wm.  H.,  22,  S. ;  carpenter.  Woburn ;  d.  1900,  Wo 
burn. 

Danforth,  Daniel  W.,  45,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 

fDean,  Henry  W..  30,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 
100  days,  1864. 

Dearborn,  George  W.,  24,  M. ;  baker,  Woburn;  1910,  Water- 
town. 

Flagg,  Charles,  43,  M. ;  shoemaker,  AYoburn. 

fFlagg,  George  A.,  21,  8.;  farmer,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 
days.  1864. 


412         FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


C.  M.  Kimball  (G). 
(In  Later  Life). 


T.  T.  Ferguson  (G). 


Fletcher,  Bernard,  28,  M. ;  japanner,  Woburn ;  1910,  Stone- 
ham. 

Foss,  Charles  II.,  38,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  later  Co.  G, 
59th  Mass. 

f French,  Samuel  R.,  29,  M. ;  tailor,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 
days.,  1864;  d.  Sept.  28,  1907,  Woburn. 

t  Fuller,  Charles  E.,  26,  S. ;  expressman,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 
100  days,  1864. 

Gleason,  Albert,  Jr..  18,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn. 

Hall,  Abiather,  37,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  d.  Boston. 

Hart,  Henry  T.,  25.  M. ;  clerk,  Woburn. 

Hill,  Charles,  40,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Belmont. 

Hopkins,  Leonard  F.,  26,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 

Jameson,  Andrew,  44,  M. ;  stone  mason,  Woburn. 

Johnson,  John  II.,  21,  M. ;  currier,  Woburn ;  later  29th  Unat 
tached  Co.,  H.  Arty. 


COMPANY  G.  413 

Jones,  Luther  F.,  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  AVoburn ;  d.  Dec.  6,  1899, 

Stoneham. 
fKelley,  George  A.,  19,  S. ;  currier,  AVoburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days,  1864. 
Kendall,  William  T.,  30,  M. ;  shoemaker,  AVoburn  ;  later  Co. 

II,  59th  Mass.;  1910,  AVoburn. 
Kilborne,  Walter  A.,  36,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 
KimbalL  Charles  M.,  21,  S. ;  carpenter,  Woburn;  1910,  AATest 

Newton. 
tKimball,  George  AV.,  35,  M. ;  carpenter,  AVoburn  ;  vide  Co. 

G,   100  days,  1864. 
fKnowlton,  James,  H.,  30,  M. ;  carpenter,  Woburn  ;  vide  Co. 

G,  100  days,  1864. 
tKnox,  Joseph  J.,  22,  M.  •  carpenter,  AVoburn  ;  vide  Co.  G, 

100  days,  1864. 

Lamon,  George  AV.,  19,  S. ;  cabinet-maker,  AVoburn. 
fLawrence,  Eber  II.,  24,  8.;  carpenter,  AVoburn;  vide  Co.  G, 

100  days,  1864. 
LeBaron.  John  S.,  20,   S. ;  machinist,  AVoburn;  later  Co.  B, 

llth  Mass. ;  d.  March  8.  1901,  AAToburn. 

LeBaron,  Joseph  F.  S.,  26,  M.;  currier,  Woburn;     15)10,  Ar 
lington. 

Linnell.  Joseph,  26,  8.;  currier,  AVoburn;  1910,  AVoburn. 
Little,  James,  33,  M.;  currier,  AVoburn;  d.  AVoburn. 
Lord,  Henry  T.,  32,  M. ;  laborer,  AVoburn;  later  Co.  II,  59th 

Mass, 
Lovejoy,  Albert  B.,  31,  M. ;  currier,  AVoburn;  d.  Oct.  12,  1896, 

Maiden. 
fMarion,  Horace  E.,  19,  S. ;  student,  Burlington;  vide  Co.  G. 

100  days,  1864. 

Martin,  Thomas,  40.  M.;  tanner,  AVoburn. 
Moore,  Milton,  21,  S. ;  currier,  AVoburn;  1910,  AVoburn. 
Murdock.  Alexander,   31,   M. ;  tailor,   Woburn;   later   Sergt., 

Co.  B,  llth  Mass.;  1910,  AVoburn. 
Murphy,  Michael  K.,  25,  M. ;  currier,  AVoburn. 
Xickles,  John  H.,  Jr..  20,  S. ;  printer,  Stoneham;  later  U.  S. 

Signal  Corps;  d.  Aug.  28,  1892. 
Page,  Alvin,  28,  AT.;  carpenter,  AVoburn. 
t Parker,  Charles.  21,  S. ;  farmer,    AVoburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days,  1864. 

Parker,  George,  24,  S. ;  farmer   AVoburn;  d.  1901,  AVoburn. 
Patten,  Weston  S.,  23,  S. ;  teamster,  Burlington. 


414        FIFTH  REGIMENT,   M.  V.  M.,  NINE   MONTHS. 


H.  F.  Howes  (E). 


H.  E.  Marion    (G) 
(In  Latei  Years). 


Richards,   John  M.,   34,  M. ;  seaman,   Charlestown. 
Richardson,  Calvin  W.,  23,  S. ;  clerk.  Woburn. 
Richardson,  Clark,  32,  M. ;  currier,  Woburn. 
Richardson,   Johnson,   41,    M. ;   farmer,   Woburn. 
fSeelev,  Montressor,  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn ;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days,,  1864. 

Spear,  William  II..  33,  M. ;  clerk,  Woburn  ;  1910,  Townsend. 
Spencer,  Ebenezer  R.,  34,  M.;  currier,  Woburn;  later  Co.  G, 

24th  Mass. 

Staples,  Fort,  24,  S. ;  carpenter,  Burlington;  1910,  Woburn. 
Starkweather,  Josiah  F.,  34,  M. ;     paper-hanger.     Woburn; 

later  Corp.,  Co.  B,  llth  Mass.;  d.  before  1890. 
Stevens.  Orin  W.,  32,  M. ;  shoemaker.  "VYobimi ;  d.  Feb.  10, 

1896,  Woburn. 
Stevens,  Oscar  F.,  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Groveland ;  later  Corp., 

Co.  B,  4th  II.  Arty. 
Stowers,  Thomas  P.,   23.  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn  ;  d.  April 

29,  1907,  Woburn. 


COMPANY  G. 


Fort  Staples  (G). 


[.  G.  West  on  (G). 


Tabor,  Newell  Z.,  29,  M. ;  japanner,  Woburn  ;  later  Co.  K. 

39th  Mass.,  and  trans,  as  Corp,    to  Co.  D,  32d ;  d.  Dec. 

23,  1900,  Woburn. 

Tay,  John  B.,  Jr.,  23,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn  ;  1910,  Arlington, 
f Taylor,  Dennis.  34,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co  .G,  100 

days,  1864. 

Tonney,  Warren  E.,  21,  S. ;  barber,  Woburn. 
tWade,  Martin  V.,  26.  S. ;  shoemaker.  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G, 

100  days,  1S64. 
t Walker,  James  II.,  29,  M. ;  currier.  Woburn;  vide  Co.  G,  100 

days.  1864. 
Wcston,  Henry  G.,  18,  S. ;  artist.  Woburn  :  has  served  in  band 

19th  Mass. ;  later  was  in  band  regular  army  and  in  V.  R. 

C.,  also  was  in  Navy  from  Sept.  11,  '65,  to  April  2.  '66; 

for  many  years  messenger  at  State  House,  Boston. 
Winn.  Abel  T.,  25,  S. ;  student.  Woburn. 
tWinn,   Otis  K.,    18,   S. ;   currier.   Woburn :   vide   Co.   G,   100 

da  vs.  1864. 


416        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Wood,  Charles  T.,  39,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn ;  later  Co.  B, 

llth  Mass. 
Wyman,  John,  45,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn. 

COMPANY  H. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  M.  I.  Sept.  16,  1862;  M.  O.  July 
2.  1863.) 

*Served  in  3  months'  term.  -j-Served  in  100  days'  term.  |  [Helped 
suppress  draft  riots,  Boston. 


CAPTAIN. 

*|  [Caleb  Drew,  33,  M. ;  ice  dealer,  Charlestown ;  D.  of  C.,  Aug. 
19,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos., 
1861. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*]|WTalter  Everett,  28,  S. ;  salesman,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C., 
Aug.  19,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos., 
1864;  d.  Newark,  N.  J. 


SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

:||fDaniel  Webster  Davis,  35,  S. ;  salesman,  Charlestown; 
D.  of  C.,  Aug.  19,  '62;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  '62;  also 
Co.  H,  100  days,  1864.  . 


SERGEANTS. 

|| John  M.  Call   (1st),  27,  M. ;  produce  dealer,  Charlestown; 

d.  1894,  Boston. 
Edward  F.   Everett,  22,   S. ;   clerk,   Charlestown ;  dis.   June 

6,    '63,  to  re-en.,  Co.  C.  2d  H.  Arty. 
*|  |  Joseph  Moult  on,  25,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  K, 

3  mos.,  1861  ;  1910,  Winchester. 
|| t William   Spaulding,   23,   S. ;   teamster,   Charlestown;   vide 

Co.  II,   100  days,  1864;  1910,  Lexington. 
*||Amos  S.  Hilton,  35,  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

K,  3  mos.,  1861;  d.  Oct.  17,  1903,  Chelmsford. 


COMPANY  H.  417 

CORPORALS. 

*John  C.  Carr,  21,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown  •  vide  Co.  K, 

3  mos.,   186L 
llfThomas  R.  Roulston,  22,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown  •  vide 

Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 

1,'Charles    II.    Allen,    29,    M. ;    carpenter,    Charlestown. 
Benj.  G.  Blanchard,  Jr.,  26,  M. ;  spar-maker,  Charlestown- 

d.  May  23,   '63,  Newbern. 

Horatio  X.  Doyle,  20,  M. ;  produce  dealer,  ^Charlestown. 
George  Prescott,  31,  M. ;  teacher,  Charlestown;  d.  Dec.  23, 

1907,  Charlestown. 
||tWm.  D.  F.  Miller,  2-4,  M. ;  spar-maker,  Charlestown-  vide 

Co.  II,  100  days.  1864. 
IJEdward  L.  LeTerre,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  app.  Nov. 

1,   '62. 

MUSICIANS. 

|| Joseph  H.   Knox,  21,   S. ;  milkman,   Charlestown;  later  U. 

S.   Navy;   1910,   Charlestown. 
Joseph   F.    Mason,    20,    S. ;    milkman,    Charlestown:    left    at 

home    sick,    never   joined    regiment;    dis.    July    6,    '63, 

without  pay  or  emoluments. 


WAGONER. 

Joseph  Daniels,    19.    8.:   carpenter,   Charlestown;   d.   before 

1888. 

PRIVATES. 

Akiris,  John,  Jr.,  21.  S. ;  upholsterer,  Charlestown. 

Allen,  Frank  E.,  23,  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Archer,  Edwin  W.,  25,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
f  Archer,    William   II.,    20,    S. ;    rope    maker,    Charlestown ; 
vide  Co.  II,  100  days,  1864;  d.  Jan.  28,  1900,  Charles- 
town. 

;  (Barrett,  John,  Jr.,  29,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 

||fBarstow,  Edward  F.,  34,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown  ;  vide 
Co.  II,  100  days,  1864. 

*||Beddoe,   Thomas,  44.  M. ;  painter,   Charlestown;   vide  Co. 
K,   3   mos..   1861;   d.   Dec.   17,  1899,  Charlestown. 


418        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Bibrim,  William  F.,  27,  S. ;  sailmaker,  Charlestown. 
Bra/ier.  William  H.,  36,  M. ;  printer,  Charlestown;  d.  Nov. 

6,  1899,  Somerville. 
||Bryant,  John,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  later  U.  S.  Navy 

*as  John  M. ;  d.  Sept.  10,  1907,  Boston. 
||Butts,  William  D.,  23,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown;  later  U. 

S.  Navy. 

Claridge,  Frederick,  36,  M. ;  rope  maker,  Charlestown. 
tColbert,   Lawrence  E.,  21,  S. ;  rope  maker,  Charlestown; 

vide  Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 
(|tColson,  Charles  A.,  18,   S. ;   clerk,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

II,  100  days,  1864. 

Conn,  Henry,  44,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
||Cross,  John,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
*||Davis,  William  W.,  39,  S. ;  gun-carriage  maker,  Charles- 
town;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861;  d.  March,  1890,  S.  H., 

Togus,  Me. 
*||Dearborn,  Daniel  H.,  23,  M. ;  sailmaker,  Charlestown;  app. 

Corp.,  Nov.  1,   '62 ;    vide    Co.    K,  3    mos.,    1861 ;    1910, 

Charlestown. 
[jEdgerly,  Lyman  W.,  22,   S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  d.  April 

2,  1910,  Melrose. 
||Emerson,  Howard  B.,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  d.  1899, 

Boston. 
||Everett,  Horace  S.,  22,  S. ;  apothecary,  Charlestown;  1910, 

physician,  Boston. 
Fowler,  Hervey  P.,   18,  S. ;  clerk,   Charlestown ;  later   llth 

Battery. 

Gary,  Edwin  F.,  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Gay,  John  P.  23,  S. ;  coachman,  Cambridge. 
Gordon,   Charles  H.,  22,  S. ;  printer,  Charlestown. 
||Gos,s,  James  F.,  23,  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
|  [Harding,  Alvin  W.,  20,  S. ;  currier,  Lexington, 
fllarding,   Frederick   II.,   18,    S. ;    currier,    Lexington ;   vide 

Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 

||Hardy,  Henry  C. ;  33,  M. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
['Harrington,  Arthur,  22,   S. ;  bookkeeper,   Charlestown. 
Hildreth,  John  P.,  16,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Hildreth,    Reuben,    20,    S. ;    bookkeeper,    Charlestown;    1910, 

Medford. 
Holmes,   Warren    A.,    19.    S. ;   milkman,   Charlestown;    1910, 

Charlestown. 


COMPANY  H.  419 

||Huntington,  Herbert  W.,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown ;  1910, 

Charlestown. 
Ingalls,  James,  34,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown ;  S.  H.,  Togus, 

Me. 
1 1  James,   George,   18,   S. ;    milkman,    Charlestown;   later    Co. 

B,  4th  Cav. 
||fKenah,  19,  S. ;  rope  maker,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  H,  100 

days,   1864. 
Leman,    Frederick    W.,    15.    S. ;    clerk,    Charlestown ;    1910, 

Somerville. 

Lincoln,  Charles  E.,  22,  S. ;  bookkeeper,  Charlestown. 
|Mallon,  Andrew  J.,  2-3.  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
| Mann,  Charles  II.,  26.  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 
JMason,   Theodore  L.,   24,   M.,   painter,   Charlestown. 
McAuslan,  William  II.,  23,  S. ;  milkman,  Charlestown. 
Meader,    John    K.,    35,    M. ;    merchant,    Charlestown;    1910, 

Reading. 
*Melvin,  William  W.,  28,  S. ;  butcher,  Lexington ;  vide  Co. 

K,   3  mos.,   1861. 

Miskelley,  Edward  H.,   23,  M. ;  carpenter,   Charlestown. 
Miskelley,  James  W.,  22,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  1910, 

Revere. 
[|Morrill,  George  E.,  25,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  d.  Oct. 

23,  1898,  Dorchester. 

Morse,  James  A.,  24,  S. ;  upholsterer,  Charlestown. 
fMullett,    Thomas    W.,    19,    S. ;    clerk,    Charlestown;    vide 

Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 

||Nash,  William  H.,  34,  M. ;  boat  builder,  Charlestown. 
Newcomb,  Edward,  23,  S. ;  plumber,  Charlestown ;  dis.  June 

1,  '63,  Beaufort,  N.  C.,  disa. ;  d.  1908,  Charlestown. 
Parker,  Daniel,  21,  S. ;  baker,  Charlestown;  d.  before  1886. 
||fParshley,   Alonzo.    22,    S. ;   carpenter,    Charlestown;   vide 

Co.  H,  100  days,  1864. 

Parshley,   Sylvester,  20,   S. ;  carpenter,   Charlestown. 
||Pease,   Albion    P.,   b.    Parsonsfield,    Me.;    18,    S. ;     clerk, 

Charlestown;  helped  organize  the  Dept.  Missouri  G.  A. 

R.,  and  was  its  first  Asst.  Adjt. -general ;  present  Com 
mander   E.    W.    Kinsley   Post,    113,   Boston;   Secretary 

Employers'   Association,    1910,    Boston. 
||Plaisted,   George   0.,   24,   S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown;   later 

16th  Batterv. 


420        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

f]Pomeroy,  Thomas  J.,  28,  M. ;  fireman,  Charlestown. 
IjPoor,  Edwin  H.,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  later  4th  Un 
attached  Company,   90    days,   186-1;   d.   June  21,   1906, 

Boston. 

Prescott,  Melvin,  24,  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
*| [Ramsey,    Royal,    36,    M. ;    morocco-dresser,    Charlestown; 

vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861. 

([Raymond,  Joel,  Jr.,  39,  M. ;  mason,  Charlestown. 
||Reed,  Thomas  B.,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
||Rice,  Augustus  R.,  22,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown;  1910, 

Melrose. 

|  [Robertson,  Charles  M.,  39,  M. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
[JRobinson,  Frank  T.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  d.  June  3, 

1898,  Roxbury. 

iJRoulstone,  Edwin  A.,  25,  M. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
*||Schillinger,   Benj.   F.,  25,  M. ;   painter,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  d.  April  28,  1893,  Arlington. 
| ] Schwartz,  James  L.,  19,  S. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown;  later 

10th  Battery. 
HtSeavey,   Albert,   22,  S.;    clerk,   Charlestown;    vide  Co.   D, 

100  days,   '64;  later  Paymaster's  clerk,  Navy. 
Stevens,  Edward  C.,  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Roxbury. 
Stiles,  Samuel  D.,  23,  S. ;  milkman,  Charlestown. 
||Stoodley,  Joseph  E.,  23,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
||Sumner,  Stephen,  19,  S. ;  painter,  Melrose;  d.  June,  1910, 

Mattapan. 
||Titus,    Daniel    F.,   19,    S. ;    plasterer,    Charlestown;    later 

4th  Unattached  Company,  90  days,   '64,  also  Sergt.,  Co. 

M,  3d  Cav. ;  d.  Charlestown. 
||Varrell,  John  II.,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
||tWebster,  George  H.,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

H,  100  days,  1864. 
Whitney,  Edwin  F.,  19,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown;  d.  Feb. 

3,  '63,  Newbern. 

Whiting,  Henry  L.,  29,  M. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
llWhittemore,  Theodosius J.,  23,  S.;  ship-joiner,  Charlestown. 
H  Wiley,   Samuel  A.,  28,  S. ;  mason,   Charlestown. 
|i Williams,    Samuel  Jr.,   29,    S. ;   mason,    Charlestown;   1910, 

Charlestown. 


COMPANY  I.  421 

COMPANY  I. 

(Unless   otherwise   stated,   all  M.   I.   Sept.   16,   1862;   M.   O.   July  2, 
1863.) 
tServed  in  100  days'   term. 

CAPTAIN. 

Charles  B.  Newton,  27,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
4,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  later  Capt,  Co.  C,  2d  H. 
Arty.;  b.  Bolton;  d.  Oct.  19,  1893,  Quincy,  a?.  55-10-3. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

f  Andrew  A.  Powers,  31,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton ;  D.  of  C., 
Sept.  4,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days, 
'64;  d.  May  8,  1873. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

f  William  S.  Frost,  34,  M. ;  mason,  Marlboro;  D.  of  C.,  Sept. 
4,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days,  '64;  d. 
July  13,  1907. 

SERGEANTS. 

Thomas  W.  Hazel  (1st),  21,  -  -  ;  -  — ,  Marlboro;  dis.  April 
1,  '63,  disa.;  d.  March  24,  1873. 

Wm.  D.  Taylor  (1st),  33,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  app. 
April  13,  '63;  later  Corp.,  Co.  C,  2d  H.  Arty;  1910,  373 
Summer  St.,  Lynn. 

Samuel  L.  Holt,  26,  M. ;  engineer,  Marlboro;  later  officer  in 
Navy;  d.  Feb.  12.  1905,  Boston,  ae.  68-5-7. 

George  Balcom,  30,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  b.  Jan.  23, 
1832;  Cambridge  schools;  1850,  Marlboro;  Fire  Dept. 
27  years,  foreman  Torrent  No.  1,  9  years ;  Board  of  En 
gineers  7  years,  two  as  chief ;  Representative,  Legislature, 
1898-1900;  charter  member,  Marlboro  Lodge,  K.  of  P., 
40  years  a  worker;  has  been  Pres.  Co.  I  Vet.  Ass.  and 
Commander  John  A.  Rawlins  Post,  G.  A.  R. 


422        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Augustus     S.     Trowbridge,  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,     Bolton ;  app. 

from  Corp.  Jan.  1,  '63;   later  Corp.,  16th  Battery;  1910, 

So.  Framingham. 
Henry  H.   Perry,   18,   S. ;   shoemaker,   Marlboro ;   app.   from 

Corp.  April  13,  '63 ;  later    Co.  K,  57th  Mass. ;  d.  of  wds. 

April  9,  '65. 

CORPORALS. 

fLevi  0.  Cunningham,  23,  S. ;  butcher,  Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I, 

100  days,  '64. 

Henry  A.  Woodbury,  28,  M.;  mason,  Bolton;  d.  Dec.  30,  '65. 
fJohn  H.   Sawyer,   26,   S. ;  farmer,   Bolton;  vide  Co.  I,   100 

days,  '64. 
f  Amory  S.  Haynes,  22,  S. ;  manufacturer,  Bolton ;  vide  Co. 

I,  100  days,  '64. 
William  Alley,   47,   M. ;   tailor,   Marlboro;   d.   Feb.   5,   1895, 

Marlboro*  re.  79-11-21. 

Francis  Babcock,  30,  S. ;  carpenter,  Berlin ;  1910,  West  Berlin. 
Wm.  H.  Larrabee,  30,  M. ;  shoemaker,     Bolton;     app.     Jan. 

1,  '63;  d.  Aug.  19,  1888. 
t  Frank  Bean,  17,  S. ;  student,  Marlboro;  app.  April  13,   '63; 

vide  Co.  I.  100  days,  '64. 

MUSICIANS. 

Lewis  T.  Howe,  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  later  16th  Bat 
tery;  b.  Berlin,  1844;  d.  June  12,  1894,  Hudson,  re.  50-6; 
Pres.  Vet.  Ass.  Co.  I  at  death. 

f  Willard  G.  Bruce,  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin ;  vide  Co.  I, 
100  days,  '64. 

WAGONER. 

Micah  B.  Priest,  45,  M.;  carpenter,  Marlboro;  d.  Dec.  2,  1888. 

PRIVATES. 

Adams,   Charles  28,   M. ;   carpenter,   Marlboro ;   later   Co.   F, 

1st  Batt,  H.  Arty. ;  1910,  Marlboro, 
f  Andrews,   Henry   K.   W.   21,    S. ;    farmer,     Marlboro;     had 

served  in  Co.  D,  30th  Mass. ;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days,  '64. 


COMPANY  I. 


423 


Ch;,,-.  A.  Wood  (I,  100  days). 
George  Balcom  (I). 


E.  B.  Babcock  (I). 
Jos.  W.  Barnes  (I). 


Babcock,  Edmund  B.  22,  S. ;  farmer,  Berlin;  later    Sergt.  Co, 

C,  4th  Cavalry;  1).  1840  of  Quaker  parentage;  d.  Feb.  8, 

1900,  Worcester,  a\  59-5-11. 
Babcock,  Harrison  T.  21,  S.;  shoemaker,   Berlin;  wd.  Golds- 

boro;  1910,  Berlin. 
fBabco-.k,   Wm.   T.   21,    S. ;   farmer,   Berlin;   vide  Co.   I.   100 

days,   '64. 
Barker,  .Justin    D.   34.   M. ;   shoemaker,   Marlboro;  b.  Nelson, 

X.  II.;  d.  Oct.  29,  1895,  Marlboro,  ge.  57-5. 


424        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Barnes,  Joseph  W.  23,  S.;  student,  Marlboro;  later  Co.  K, 
57th  Mass.;  d.  Jan.  23,  1911,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 

Bennett,  Freeman  W.  19,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  1910, 
Clinton. 

f  Berry,  John  C.  18,  S. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co.  I,  100 
days,  '64. 

Blau,  John  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  on  Adjt.  Gen.  's  Re 
port  "Blair";  real  name  John  B.  Girouard;  1910,  Marl 
boro. 


E.  A.  Brown  (I). 


A.  S.  Haynes  (I). 
IX  LATER  YEARS. 


E.  A.  Perry  (I). 


Blake,  Charles  E.  28,  M. ;  shoemaker.  Marlboro;  en.  and  M. 
I.  Oct.  9,  762;  later  Co.  I,  2d  H.  Arty.;  d.  Dec.  19,  1872. 

Bliss,  Charles  H.  21,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  1901,  Worces 
ter;  d.  Oct.  30,  1903,  Worcester,  x.  62-2-14. 

fBond,  Edmund  E.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I, 
100  days.  '64. 

Bourdreau,  Eusibee  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro  :  en.  and  M. 
I.  Oct.  9,  '62;  lat.  add.,  Brockton. 

Brewer,  Theo.  M.  38,  S.;  farmer,  Marlboro;  d.  April  19,  1868. 

fBrown,  Edward  A.  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co. 
E,  100  days,  '64. 

Bullard,  James  M.  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin ;  b.  Berlin ;  d. 
April  29,  1893,  Worcester,  a?.  55  years. 


COMPANY    I. 


425 


William  W.  Wood  (I). 
William  T.  Babcook  (I). 


.1.  B.  Girouard  (  I >. 
F.  W.  Bennett  (I). 


Burgess,  John  F.  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton ;  d.  March  4, 
1904,  Hudson,  03.  62-7-24. 

Chase,  Benjamin, 40,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  d.  Sept.  26,  ?88. 

Clanin,  James  F.  28,  M. ;  teacher,  Marlboro;  b.  1834,  Hopkin- 
ton;  at  enlistment  was  principal  High  School,  some  of 
his  pupils  going  with  him;  after  the  war  was  general 
manager  N.  Y.  Life  Ins.  Co.,  State  of  Me. ;  later  was 
trans,  to  Illinois  with  residence  in  Chicago;  d.  Oct.,  1891 


426        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Corser,  George  A.  18,  S.;  farmer,  Bolton;  dis.  June  6,  '63,  to 

re-en.  Co.  C,  2d  H.  Arty. ;  d.  Oct.  22,   '64,  Newbern. 
f  Crosby,  Ariel  34,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co.  I,  100 

days,  '64. 
Dispeau,  James  F.  22,  M. ;    shoemaker,    Bolton ;  d.     April  7, 

1908,  Brockton,  re.  67-1-13. 
Dumas,  Peter  23,   S. ;     shoemaker,     Marlboro;   d.     Soldiers' 

Home,  Togus,  Me.,  Jan.  11,  1901,  a?.  65  years. 
Ellis,  George  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Berlin ;  1910,  Leominster. 
fFarnsworth,  Luther  H.  33,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  vide 

Co.  I,  100  days,  '64. 
Flynn,  Jeremiah  21,  S. ;  cotton-spinner,  Marlboro ;  dis.  June 

6,   '63  to  re-en.,  Co.  F,  2d  H.  Arty. ;  d.  Jan.     31,     1908, 

Shirley,  re.  64  years. 
Fogg,  George  22,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  d.  Aug.  17,  1908, 

Boston. 
Gibbs,  Lyman  44,  widower;  butcher,  Bolton;  b.  Leominster; 

d.  May  24,  1893,  Worcester,  re,  74  years. 
Gibbs,   William,  39,   M.;   hotel-keeper,    Bolton;   d.   July  21, 

1900,  Soldiers'  Home,  Chelsea,  a?.  78-1-4. 
Girouard,  J.  B.;  vide  John  Blau. 
Grenache,  Claude  32,  M. ;  blacksmith,*  Marlboro ;  b.  Montcalm, 

Canada  East,  1830;  k.  Oct.  23,  '62,  by  falling  from  yard- 
arm,  steamer  Mississippi;   vide  p.  130. 
Hartford,  Erastus  G.  32,  widower;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  b. 

Dover,     N.  H.,  1832;  d.     April  13,  1895,     Boston,  re,  63 

years, 
f  Hastings,  Augustus  L.   20,   S. ;   farmer,  Berlin;  vide  Co.   I, 

100  days,   '64;  b.  Clinton;    a    R.  R.     engineer,     he     was 

fatally  injured  by  falling  from   his  engine   at   Sterling 

June.,   dying  at  the     Clinton     Hospital,  Jan    91     1891, 

re.  48-3-15. 
t Hastings,  Edward  M.  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co. 

E,  100  days,  '64. 
Hill,  Charles  W.  28,  M. ;  teacher,  Marlboro;  b.  West  Medway, 

June  5,  1834;  d.  Nov.  13,  1896,  Boston,  re.  62-5-5;  when 

en.,  prin.  Washington  St.  Grammar  School,  Marlboro;  at 

death  master  Bowditch  School,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Holt,  Stephen  A.  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Hudson. 
Howe,   Ephraiin  D.   20,   S. ;  student.  Marlboro ;  b.   Marlboro ; 

for  many  years    secretary    Veteran    Association,   Co.   I  ; 

1910.  lawver,  Gardner. 


COMPANY  I. 


427 


E.  A.  Perry  (I). 
J.  W.  Barnes  (I). 


Chas.  Adams  (I), 
E.  D.  Howe  (I). 


Howe,  George  W.  28,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  d.  before  1887. 
Howe,  Wallace  31,  — ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Southboro. 
Hurlburt,  James  D.  29,  S. ;  carpenter,  Berlin;  d.  Dec.  25,  1887; 

at  his  death  was  Treas.,  town  of  Bolton. 
Jillson,  James  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  later   16th  Battery; 

d.  June  4,  1887. 
Jordan,  James  W.   18,   S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;   1910,  No.  Al 

Berwick  Place,  Boston. 
Jourdan,  John  29,   S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Soldiers' 

Home,  Togiis,  Me. 


428        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Kurtz,   Charles  31,   M. ;  shoemaker,   Marlboro ;   later    Co.  A, 

56th  Mass. ;  1910,  Marlboro. 
Lancy,  Samuel  0.  20,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  d.  April  23, 

1899,  Soldiers'  Home,  Chelsea,  a?,  56-5-12;  bur.  Hudson. 
Loftus,  Martin  J.  19,  S. ;  painter,  .Marlboro;  d.  before  1887. 
Lowell,  .Frank  H.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  later  Corp. 

Co.  K,'  57th  Mass.;    1910,  Oakland,  Cal.  ' 
Mclntire,  John  18.  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  later    Co.  F,  2d 

H.  Arty.;  d.  Aug.  14,  1909,  S.  H.,  Chelsea. 
Merrill,  John  A.  34,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  1910,  Berlin. 
Murphy,  Richard  19,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  dis.  June  6. 

'63,  to  re-en.  Co.  B,  2d  H.  Arty. 
Newton,  Francis  M.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Bolton;  later  Sergt.  Co. 

C,  -4th  Cavalry;    d.  July  26,  1899. 
Nourse,  Andrew  L.  20,   S. ;  farmer,   Bolton;   Representative. 

Legislature,  1892;  1910,  farmer,  Bolton. 
Nourse,  Joseph  B.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Southboro ;  later  Co.  G, 

4th  Cavalry ;  1910,  Medway. 
0  'Brien.  John  20,  S. ;  painter,  Marlboro ;  later    Sergt.    Co.  D, 

4th  Cav..;  d.  before  1887. 
Paige,  Frank  W.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin ;  dis.  March  28, 

'63,  disa. ;  later  Co.  D,  6th  V.  R,  C. ;  dis.  June  30,   '65, 

because  of  Gun-shot  wound;  d.  Jan.  12,  1901,  Foxboro 

re.  57-10-20. 
Pedrick,  Joseph  W.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  later    Corp. 

16th  Battery;  1910.  Milford. 
Perry,  Edward  A.  20,  S. ;  student,  Marlboro ;  d.  Dec.  15,  1907, 

Cooperstown,  N.  Y. ;  prominent  in     Masonry,     he     had 

preached  in  Fort  Plain,  X.  Y.,  and  for  13M>  years    was 

Universalist  pastor  in  Cooperstown. 

Pierce,  William  D.  23,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  1910,  Hudson. 
t Priest.  George  0.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co.  E, 

100  days,    '64;  1910,  Metuchen,  X.  J. 
Priest,    Gilman   43,    M. ;   farmer,   Marlboro ;   b.   Marlboro ;   d. 

Sept,  7,  1895,  Hudson,  ».  82-0-13,  farmer. 
Sawyer,  Rnfus  C.  31,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  d.  Oct.  4,  1903 

ae.  70-11-25  ;  Pres.  of  Co.  I    Vet.  Ass.  at  death. 
Smith.  Augustus  E.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  later    Co. 

M,  2d  II.  Arty. ;  1910,  Moira,  Franklin  Co.,  X.  Y. 
Smith,  George  W.  19,   S. ;  shoemaker,  Clinton ;  left  at  home 

sick,  did  not  report  to  the  regiment,  did  not  leave  the 

State;  later  Co.  M,  2d  H.  Arty.;  d.  .Julv  12,  1887. 


COMPANY  I. 


429 


Chas.  H.  Bliss  (I). 


It.  C.  Sawyer  (I). 


Smith,  Stephen  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Stone- 
ham. 

fSpoerell  George  33,  M. ;  tailor,  Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I  100 
days,  '64. 

Starkey,  Charles  D.  24,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  d.  May  26, 
'63,  Xewbern. 

fStratton,  Isaac  C.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton  :  vide  Co.  I  100 
days,  '64;  later  16th  Battery. 

Temple,  George  L.  19,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1891,  Fay- 
ville;  d.  Oct.  24,  1905. 

Temple,  Henry  M.  18.  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  d.  be 
fore  1887. 

Temple,  Marshall  PI.  42,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 

fWhitcomb,  David  B.  24,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin ;  res.  Sergt.'s 
warrant  Jan.  1,  '63;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days  '64. 

White,  Charles  H.  27,  M. ;  farmer,  Bolton;  d.  Nov.  10,  1903, 
Bolton,  £e.  68  years. 


430 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


Wm.  W.  Wood  (I). 


Jas.  W.  Jordan  (I). 


E.  D.  Howe  (I). 


White,  Nathaniel  H.  20,  S.;   farmer,  Marlboro;   30  Otis  St., 

Medford. 
Wood,  Henry  24,  M. ;  farmer,  Bolton;  d.  Oct.  4,  1904,  Bol- 

ton,  66-3-16. 
fWood,  William  W.   23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  vide  Co. 

I,  100  days,   '64. 
fWoodbury,  Alfred  I.  28,  M. ;  news-agent,  Boston ;   en.  and 

M.  I.  Oct.  9,  '62 ;  vide  Co.  I,  100  days,   '64. 
Works,   George  L.   19,   S. ;  shoemaker,   Southboro ;   later    Co. 

E,  4th  H.  Arty.;  1910,  So.  Framingham. 
Wright,  Aaron  W.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  b.  Holden ; 

d.  Sept.  29,  1896,  Worcester,  ae.  54  years, 
f  Wright,  Albert  A.  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Westford;  vide  Co.  1, 

100  days,   '64. 
f  Wright,  Charles  E.  35,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co. 

I,  100  days,   '64. 
f  Wright,  Edward  E.  20,  S. ;  teacher,  Westford;  vide    Co.  I, 

100  days,   '64. 


COMPANY  K.  431 

COMPANY  K. 

(Unless   otherwise   stated,   all  M.  I.   Sept.   19,   1862;   M.   O.  July   2, 
1863.) 
*Served  in  3  months'  term.     fServed  in  100  days'  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

Joseph  Crafts,  43,  M. ;  accountant,  Watertown;  D.  of  C.,  Aug. 
28,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

Florence  E.  Crowley,  28,  widower;  harness-maker,  Waltham; 
D.  of  C.,  Aug.  28,  '62;  M.  0.  with  regiment. 

SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

*Ira  Joseph  Osborne.  21,  8.:  carpenter,  Watertown;  D.  of  C., 
Aug.  28,  '62;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos.,  1861;  later  U.  S.  Signal 
Corps. 

SERGEANTS. 

John  II.  Carter  (1st),  24,  S. ;  machinist,  Watertown;  later 
Captain  Co.  E,  4th  Cavalry. 

William  F.  Baldwin,  26,  M. ;  tin-worker,  Watertown;  later 
Co.  A,  62d  Mass. 

John  N.  "Whelon.  30,  M. ;  painter,  Waltham ;  d.  March  20, 
1907,  Waltham. 

Bainbridge,  S.  Houghton,  28,  S. ;  farmer,  Waltham ;  d.  June 
9,  '63,  Newbern. 

Otis  A.  Whitcomb,   21,   S. ;  farmer,  Waltham. 

Charles  Brigham,  21,  S. ;  architect,  Watertown ;  from  Corp. 
Feb.  1,  '63 ;  designer  of  the  State  House  Extension,  Bos 
ton;  1910.  Watertown. 

CORPORALS. 

William  F.  Fiske,  26.  S. ;  shoemaker,  Waltham;  dis.  Jan.  14, 

'65,  disa. 
James   G.   Wormwood,   36,   M. ;   laborer,   Waltham;    d.    1901. 

Wakefield. 


432        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 

Jacob  C.  Boyce,  32,  M. ;  teamster,  Watertown. 

Charles  Adams,  21,  S. ;  carpenter,  Watertown;  later  Co.  F, 
1st  Batt.  H.  Arty. ;  b.  AVatertown ;  carpenter  and  builder, 
Worcester,  till  1889,  then  Assistant  Supt.  Buildings  till 
1905;  1910,  Worcester,  State  Inspector. 

Selden  H.  Rosebrook,  25,  S. ;  farmer,  AVatertown. 

Joseph   S.   Perkins,   21,   S. ;   painter,   AValtham. 

Zenas  Winslow,  27.  S. ;  watchman,  AValtham. 

James  A.  Ellis,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  AVatertown;  app.  Feb.  1,  '63; 
later  F.  &  S.,  1st  Cav.,  d.  1896. 

Horace  AA7.  Otis,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  AATatertown;  app.  Feb.  1,  '63; 
later  Q.  M.,  Sergt.  Co.  L,  1st  Cavalry;  wd.  Ashland,  Va., 
May  11,  '64,  neck,  shoulder  and  forearm;  dis.  July,  '65, 
disa.;  has  been  Assessor  and  Selectman,  Trustee  of  Li 
brary;  is  now  Trustee  Savings  Bank,  Director  National 
Bank  and  on  Investment  Com.  Co-operative  Bank;  since 
1866  of  firm  Otis  Brothers,  Watertown. 


MUSICIANS . 

Thomas  Miller,  18,  S. ;  watchmaker.  AValtham. 
f  James  Dunn,  16,  S. ;  servant,  AVatertown ;  vide  Co.  B,  100 
days,  '64;  later    Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Cavalry. 


WAGONER. 

Lyman  II.  Chase,  26,  — ;  farmer,  Essex;  later    Co.  H,  3d  H. 
Arty. 

PRIVATES. 

Arnold,  Ambrose  18,  S. ;  laborer,  AValtham. 

Bent,  Judsoii  L.  26,  S. ;  student,  AVatertown;  later  add.,  San 

Diego,  Cal. 

Blanchard,  James  H.  27,  M. ;  lather,  AValtham. 
Burns,  Patrick,  21,  S.;  laborer,  Watertown;  missing  in  Golds- 

boro  Expedition,  Dec.   18,    '62;  rejoined  regiment    June 

26.   '63,  at  Boston  from  Parole  Camp,  Annapolis,  Md. 
Carsons,  Elbridge  C.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  AValtham ;  d.  March  9, 

1905,  AValtham. 
Carsons,  Francis  D.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Waltham. 


COMPANY  K.  433 

Collins,  John  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Waltham. 

Crowley,  William  35,  M. ;  farmer,  Waltham ;  later    Co.  C.  2d 

Cavalry. 
Curtis,  John  D.   35.   M. ;   laborer,   Waltham;   May  28,   1900, 

Waltham. 
Daley,  John  33.  M. ;  laborer,  Waltham;  d.  Nov.  21,  1892,  S. 

H.,  Chelsea,  a?.  60  years. 
Dardiss,  Thomas  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Waltham;  later    Co.  L,  1st 

Cavalry. 

Derby,  Amos  L.  43,  M. ;  laborer,  Watertown. 
Dexter,  George  A.  20,  S. ;  baggage-master,     WatertoAvn;     d. 

March  27,  1910,  Brookline. 
Dowire,  Andrew  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown ;  later  Corp.  Co. 

L,  1st  Cavalry ;  also  found  as  DaWyre. 
Fisher,  Charles  R!  43,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Waltham. 
Foster,  Charles  22,  S. ;  saddler,  Watertown. 
Garrity,  Patrick  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Boston. 
Gillespie,  John  E.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Waltham;  later    Co.  G,  2d 

H.  Arty.;  also  Co.  I,  56th    Mass.;  k.     June     23,     1864T 

Petersburg. 

Gleason,  Daniel  W.  37.  S. ;  laborer,  Wayland. 
Grant,  Samuel  24,  M. :  laborer,  Waltham. 
Harrington,  George  E.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Watertown. 
Hills,  Charles  F.  18.  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown. 
Hilton,  Charles  C.  18,  S. ;  machinist,  WTatertown. 
Home,  George  W.  Jr.    18,  S. ;  carpenter,  Watertown. 
Howard,  Frederick  A.  44,  widower;  laborer,  Watertown;  des, 

Oct.  2,  '62,  Wenham. 
Howe,  Charles  A.  22,  S. ;  farmer,  Waltham ;  d.  Nov.  19,  1903, 

Bolton. 
f Howes,  Micajah  C.  18,  S.;  clerk,  Watertown;  vide  Co.  Cr 

100  days,  1864. 
Ireland,   Edward   C.   23,  M. ;  bookbinder,  Watertown;   later 

llth  Battery. 

Jones,  William  18,  S. ;    farmer,  Watertown;  later    llth  Bat 
tery;  1910,  Waltham. 
Joyce,  Patrick  39,  M. ;  laborer,  Waltham;  later  Co.  H,  56th 

Mass. 
Kennedy,  James  44,  M. ;  stone-mason,  Watertown ;  later    Co. 

H,  2d  H.  Arty. 

Lindley,  Austin  W.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Watertown. 
28 


434        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.  V.  M.,  NINE  MONTHS. 


A.  S.  Haynes  (I). 


Otis  Brothers  (K). 


Chas.  Adams  (K). 


Lyman,  Joseph  D.  20,  S. ;  laborer,  AYatertown;  1910,  East 
Livermore,  Me. 

McBride,  Michael  37,  M. ;  laborer,  AYaltham;  dis.  Jan.  30, 
'63,  Newbern,  disa. 

fMcCabe,  James  P.  21,  S. ;  machinist,  AYaltham;  vide  Co.  D, 
100  days.  1864. 

McXamara,  Joseph  I).  19.  S. :  laborer,  Newton ;  des.  Oct.  22, 
'62,  Wenham. 

Mullalley,  John  22,  M. ;  confectioner,  AYaltham. 

Nelson,  Samuel    41,  S. ;  mason,  AYaltham. 

Nichols,  George  C.  22,  S. ;  farmer,  AYaltham. 

tOber,  Oliver  M.  18,  S.;  laborer,  Watertown;  vide  Co.  B,  100 
days.  1864. 

Ober,  Peter  A.  21,  S. ;  laborer,  AYatertown. 

Otis,  Ward  M.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  AYatertown;  b.  Leominster,  Apr. 
6,  1843;  descended  from  John  Otis,  Hingham,  1635;  since 
1866  with  Bro.  H.  W.  in  "Otis  Brothers77  firm;  member 
Sons  of  Revolution,  Masons,  Phillips  Congregational 
Church;  President  No.  Falmouth  Water  Supply  Asso. ; 
Clerk  Watertown  Savings  Bank  more  than  twenty-five 
years;  member  and  past  officer  G.  A.  R.  Post;  Selectman, 
1875-'76. 

Parsons,  AYilliam  II.  42,  M. ;  shoemaker,  AYaltham. 


COMPANY  K.  435 

Penderghast,  Thomas  18,  S. ;  laborer,  AYatertown. 

fPond,  John  A.  18,  S. ;  laborer.  AYatertown;  vide  Co.  B,  100 
clays,  '64;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Cavalry. 

Priest,  Charles  H.  20,   S. ;  mechanic,  AVatertown. 

Priest,  Francis  H.  23,  S. ;  painter,  Waltham;  d.  Dec.  22, 
'62,  Newbern,  from  exhaustion  from  long  march,  the 
Goldsboro  Expedition. 

Rand,  Xalmni  45,  M. ;  carpenter,  Waltham ;  later  Co.  G,  2d 
IT.  Arty.;  d.  Aug.  13,  '64.  Andersonville. 

Bhoades,  George  L.  21,  S. :  clerk,  Watertown;  des.  Oct.  22, 
'62.  AVenham. 

Richardson,  Edward  F.  23,  S. :  laborer,  Watertown :  later  Co. 
D,  4th  Cavalry;  d.  April  9,  1906,  S.  H.,  Chelsea, 

Russell,  Jeremiah  Jr.,  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Watertown ;  dis.  Jan. 
14,  '63,  Newbern,  disa. :  1910,  Watertown. 

Sanger,  Charles  E.  18,  S. :  carpenter,  Watertown. 

Shute,  James  G.  38,  M. ;  naturalist,  AVoburn;  though  a  car 
penter  by  trade,  always  preferred  nature  studies:  d.  Feb. 
17,  1908*  Jamaica  Plain. 

Sibley,  Mark  N.  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown ;  d.  Oct.  2,  1907, 
Boston. 

Smith,  Thomas  G.  18,  S. ;  butcher.  Waltham;  later  14th 
Battery. 

Stackpole,  Edwin  A.  21,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Watertown. 

Stanley,  John  S.  27,  S.;  butcher,  Watertown ;  1910,  Wil 
mington,  Vt. 

Stanton,  Jacob  C.  Jr.,  28,  S. :  clerk,  Winchester. 

Sullivan.  Dennis  18.  S. ;  laborer,  Waltham. 

Toole,  Patrick  19,  S. ;  farmer,  AVatertown. 

Tyghe,  Joseph  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown ;  1910,  AVatertown. 

AVilson,  Daniel  IT.  18,  S. :  teamster,  AVatertown. 

AVilson,  James  27,  S. ;  student,  AVatertown ;  d.  1902,  Topsfield. 


436    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


FIELD  AND  STAFF.  437 

REGIMENTAL    ROSTER. 
One  Hundred  Days'  Service. 

FIELD  AND  STAFF. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  were  M.  I.  July  28,  1864;  M.   0.  Nov. 
16,  1864.) 
tServed  in  3  months'  term.     *Served  in  9  months'  term. 

COLONEL. 

f*George  H.  Peirson,  48,  M. ;  blacksmith,  Salem;  vide  F.  & 
S.,  3  mos.,  also  9  mos. ;  b.  June  16,  1816,  Salem;  1834, 
joined  Salem  Light  Infantry;  duly  promoted  in  order 
to  the  command  of  the  5th  Regt.,  being  its  third  Com 
mander;  Brigadier  General,  '66-76,  then  retired  from  the 
militia  after  42  years7  continuous  service;  1867,  first 
Commander  Phil.  Sheridan  Post,  G.  A.  R.  (Salem)  ; 
1868,  Sen.  Vice  Commander  Grand  Army,  Dept.  Mass. ; 
Commander  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  (Boston), 
1870-71;  1867-68,  Mass.  Legislature;  appointed  Postmas 
ter  of  Salem,  1869,  holding  the  position  till  his  death, 
March  2,  1881. 

LIEUTENANT  -COLONEL. 

*Wm.  E.  C.  Worcester,  38,  M. ;  clerk,  Marlboro;  vide  F.  &  S., 
9  mos.;  b.  Feb.  24,  1826,  Damariscotta,  Me.;  schooldays 
spent  in  Charlestown;  1849,  removed  to  Feltonville,  now 
Hudson ;  except  for  the  war  and  some  time  spent  in  Marl 
boro,  this  was  his  residence  until  his  death;  he  was  a 
painter  by  trade,  but  at  enlistment  was  supt.  of  a  shoe 
factory  in  Marlboro;  a  member  of  Reno  Post,  G.  A.  R., 
and  prominent  in  Masonic  circles;  appointed  Postmaster 
in  1884,  he  held  the  office  till  his  death,  Nov.  4,  1895. 


438        FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

MAJOR, 

*Wm.  T.  Grammer,  42,  M. ;  shoe-manufacturer,  Woburn ;  vide 
Co.  G,  9  mos. ;  b.  1822,  Boston ;  school  years  spent  in 
Woburn;  1840,  joined  Woburn  Mechanics'  Phalanx;  reg 
ularly  promoted  and  remained  in  the  militia  almost  con 
stantly  until  his  final  M.  0.  Jan.  4,  1868,  retiring  from 
the  Colonelcy  of  the  Fifth,  having  succeeded  General 
Peirson  as  the  fourth  Commander  of  the  regiment;  high 
ly  esteemed  by  his  fellow  citizens,  he  was  sent  four  terms 
to  the  Legislature,  and  for  six  years  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Land  and  Harbor  Commissioners;  d.  Dec.  18, 
1908,  Woburn. 

ADJUTANT. 

f*Edwin  F.  Wyer,  31,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn;  D.  of  C.,  Aug.  24, 
64;  vide  Co.  I,  3  mos.,  also  Co.  E,  9  mos. ;  b.  1832,  Cam 
bridge;  schooldays  spent  in  Woburn;  in  Alabama  two 
years  before  the  war;  from  1855  to  1872  a  member  of 
the  militia,  retiring  as  Captain;  twice  Commander  Post 
33,  G.  A.  R.,  thrice,  Post  161;  1891-92,  State  Senator; 
18  years  Pres.  Republican  City  Com. ;  until  appointed 
Postmaster  of  Woburn  was  a  dealer  in  harness  and 
saddlery  goods;  has  been  Treas.,  Sec.  and  Pres.  of  the 
Regimental  Veteran  Association;  1910,  Postmaster, 
Woburn. 

QUARTERMASTER. 

*Charles  Currier,  37,  M. ;  trader,  Medford;  vide  Co.  F,  9 
mos. ;  d.  March  12,  1902,  Medford. 


SURGEON. 

Joshua  B.  Treadwell,  23,  — ;  physician,  Boston;  Harvard 
Medical  School,  1862;  d.  May  5,  1885;  in  a  medical 
capacity  had  served,  F.  &  S.,  in  the  45th  Mass. ;  later  saw 
service  in  a  similar  manner  with  the  62d  and  the  54  Mass. 


COMPANY  A.  439 


ASSISTANT    SURGEON. 


George  H.  Jones,  22,  — ;  physician,  Boston;  Harvard  Medi 
cal  School,  1864;  1910,  Xo.  4  Bulfinch  St.,  Boston. 


SERGEANT-MAJOR. 

William  H.  Hurd,  24,  M. ;  clerk,  Stoneham;  had  served  as 
Corp.  in  Co.  C,  50th  Mass. ;  d.  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT. 

Daniel  W.  Lawrence,  33,  M.;—  — ,  Medford;  a  brother  of 
General  S.  C.  Lawrence,  Colonel  in  the  three  months7 
service,  he  had  been  the  Colonel's  messenger  to  notify  the 
different  companies  of  the  call  of  the  Government,  so  he 
rode,  on  the  night  of  the  18th,  as  did  Paul  Revere,  just 
86  years  before,  on  a  similar  errand  and  over  much  the 
same  route;  1910,  Medford. 


COM  MISSARY-SERGEANT. 

*Thomas  F.  Ferguson,  30,  M. ;  wheelwright,  AYoburn  ;  vide  Co. 
G,  9  mos.;  was  in  turn  constable,  policeman  and  deputy 
sheriff;  for  more  than  2f>  years  was  U.  S.  Stockkeeper 
and  Ganger;  1910,  Somerville. 


HOSPITAL-STEWARD. 

M.  Augustus  Fuller.  26,  — ;  -        — ,  Boston. 

COMPANY  A. 

(Unless   otherwise    stated,   all   enlisted     July   13,   M.   I.      July   2:5.    M. 
O.     Xov.  16,   3864.) 

tServed  in  3  months'  term. 


George  II.  Homer,  22,  M. ;  merchant,  Boston;  D.  of  C.,  July 
lo,  '64;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  b.  So.  Boston,  March  19, 
1842,  of  long  American  ancestry;  dealer  in  real  estate; 
1910,  Roslindale. 


440    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

FIRST   LIEUTENANT. 

Charles  I.  Craibe,  Jr.,  27,  S. ;  merchant,  Boston;  D.  of  C., 
July  15;  M.  0.  with  regiment;  had  served  as  Sergt.,  Co. 
A,  43d  Mass.;  M.  O.  with  regiment;  lat.  add.  Station  A, 
Boston;  d.  S.  H.,  Togus,  Me. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

Edward  P.  Jackson,  24,  S. ;  student,  Boston;  D.  of  C.,  July 
23,  '64;  had  served  as  Corp.,  Co.  D,  45th  Mass.;  M.  0. 
with  regiment;  d.  Oct.  12,  1905. 

SERGEANTS. 

William  Lutted     (1st),   23,  — ;   gas-fitter,   Boston. 

John  C.  Singer,  24,  — ;  wood-turner,  Boston;  had  served  as 

Corp.,  Co.  A,  1st  Mass. 

August  Roy,  23,  — ;  painter,  Boston;  d.  1909,  Princeton. 
John  E.  Walsh,  22,  — ;  stone-cutter,  Boston;  had  served  in 

Co.  A,  43d  Mass. 
David  A.  Nason,  20,  S. ;  teamster,  Boston ;  had  served  in  Co. 

E,  13th  Mass. 

CORPORALS. 

George  H.   Troup,   30,   S. ;   salesman,   Boston ;  had  served  in 

Co.  B,  43d   Mass. 
George  N.  Cragin,  21,  — ;  clerk,  Boston ;  had  served  in  Co.  A, 

44th  Mass. 
Lemuel  B.  S.  Dwelley,  20,  S. ;  teamster,  Boston;  had  served 

in  Co.  C,  42d  Mass. ;  d.  July  24,  1901,  S.  H.  Chelsea. 
Frederick  Crowell,  32,  M. ;  brass-finisher,  Boston. 
Charles  Spear,  35,  M. ;  ship-joiner,  Boston. 
Alexander  Peterson,  22,  S. ;  machinist,  Boston. 
Joseph  W.  Phinney,  19,  S. ;  painter,  Sandwich. 
Charles  E.  Jackson,  20,  S. ;  painter,  Boston. 


MUSICIANS. 

Lyman  R.  Whitcomb,  24,  — ;  painter,  Boston. 
Charles  M.  Melville,  18,  - — ;  clerk,  Boston. 


COMPANY  A. 


441 


John  Baumeister  (A). 


E.  A.  Clapp  (F). 
J.  R.  Johnston  (I). 


C.  T.  Robinson  (B). 


PRIVATES. 

Atkinson,  Frank  E.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  had  served  as  Mus. 
Co.  A,  43d  Mass.;  later  Co.  C,  62d  Mass.;  d.  Nov.  10, 
1896,  Chelsea. 

Barnard,  Bertram  W.  18,  — ;  machinist,  Boston;  1910, 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

Bartlett,  Charles  W.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Boston ;  b.  Aug.  12,  1845, 
Boston;  Dartmouth  College,  1869;  Albany  Law  School, 
1871;  Democratic  candidate  for  Governor,  1905;  1910, 
lawyer,  Boston. 

Baumeister,  John  18,  S, ;  cabinet-maker,  Boston;  finished  time 
as  apprentice;  1865  joined  Dorchester  Fire  Dept.,  con 
tinuing  in  the  same  after  annexation  to  Boston;  Aug.  30 
prom.  Lieut.,  and  Nov.  26,  1909,  at  his  own  request  was 
retired  and  his  name  was  place  on  pension  roll,  Boston 
Fire  Dept. ;  1910,  Boston. 

Burns,  William  21,  — ;  shoemaker,  Boston. 


442    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Calif,  William  S.  24.  — ;  gas-fitter,  Boston. 

Callahan,  James  F.  18,  — ;  barber,  Boston. 

Chipman,  Sands    K.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Sandwich. 

Churchill,  Ezra  R.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Bridgewater. 

Clerke,   Charles  S.  18,  S. ;  glass-maker,  Sandwich;  later  92d 

X.  Y.   Infty. ;  b.   Falmouth  Jan.   10,   1846 ;    Commander 

Post  2,  G.  A.  R.,  1895;  Jos.  Warren  Lodge,  Masons;  Rep. 

Legislature,   1898 ;  wholesale     cigar     and  tobacco,   1910, 

Boston. 

Colton,  Daniel  J.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston  ;  later   5th  Battery. 
Conway,  Timothy  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Roxbury. 
Cracklin,  John  F.  31,  S. ;  plasterer,  Roxbury. 
Crook,  Charles  19,  S. ;  machinist,  Roxbury. 
Cutter,  James  R.   23,  — ;   painter,  Winchendon;  had  served 

Co.  E,  33d  Mass. 
tDean,  John  23,  S.;    instrument-maker,  Cambridge;    vide  Co. 

C,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  also  U.  S.  Navy. 
Deegan,  Philip  18,  — ;  machinist.  Boston. 
Doherty,  Peter  18,  S. ;  currier,  Roxbury. 
Ernest,'  A  net  21,   S. ;  shoemaker,  Boston;  dis.   Sept.   19,    '64, 

to  re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass. 
Fernald,  Horace  20,  S. ;  painter,  Roxbury. 
Fitzgerald,  John  19,  S. :  telegraph-operator.  Boston. 
Flynn,  John  J.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Roxbury. 
French,  Benjamin  F.  18,  S. :  teamster,  Boston. 
Frizzell,  James  18,  S. ;     plumber,     Boston;     dis.     Sept.     19, 

'64,  to  re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass. 
Gately,  John  19.  S. ;  machinist,  Roxbury. 
Goodwin,  Benjamin  23,   S. ;  pattern-maker.  Boston. 
Goodwin,  Charles  A.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Boston. 
Grant,  John  19,  S. :  printer,  Boston. 
Griffin,  Frank  18,  S. :  farmer,  Methuen. 
Gurry,  John  24,   S. ;  lather,  Roxbury ;  had     served      Co.  E, 

24th  Mass. 

Harold.  Bernard  E.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Lowell. 
Howe,  Frederick  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Roxbury. 
Howes,  Alvin  C.  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Sandwich. 
fKeene,  Lewis  11.  29,  M. ;     clerk,     Boston;     vide     Co.     E,  3 

mos.,  1861. 
Killduff.  William  J.  20,  S. :  plumber.  Roxbury;  later     Co.  I. 

61st  Mass, 
Lamb,  Edward  C.  19.  S. ;  hatter,  Boston. 


COMPANY  A.  443 

Lang,  Alfred  T.  23,  S. ;  engineer,  Boston. 

Ledwith,  Bernard  18,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Roxbury;  later    Co.  B, 

62d  Mass. 
Leonard,  Wendell  22,  S. ;  mariner,  Boston ;  left  sick  at  Read- 

ville;  X.  F.  R. 
Lincoln,  George  AY.  21,  — ;  machinist,  Athol;     had     served 

Co.  E,  53d  Mass. 

Love.  Walter  AY.  18,  S. ;  carpenter,  Phoenix,  R.  I. 
Macon,  Michael  18,  S. ;  cotton-spinner,  Boston. 
Mason,  William  19,  S. ;  varnisher,  Boston. 
McGilpin,  John  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Mclntyre,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
McKeon,  Frank  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Boston. 
McNamara,  Frank  19,  S. ;  spinner,  Lowell. 
Mnndy,  Thomas  B.  24,  — ;  photographer,  Boston. 
Norton,  John  18,  S. ;  boiler-maker,  Lowell;  d.  before  1893. 
Otis,  James  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Xew  York. 
Phinney,  Prince  A.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Sandwich ;  dis.  Sept.  19, 

'64,  to  re-en.  Co.  D,  25th  Mass. 
Pike,  William  F.  18.  S. ;  salesman.  Boston ;  later    Co.  II,  61st 

Mass.;  d.  Aug.  28,  1902,  S.  II.,   Chelsea. 
Plympton,  William  P.  23,  — ;  weaver,  Southbridge;  dis.  Sept. 

19,    '64.  to  re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass. ;  had  served  Co.  A, 

45th  Mass. ;  1910,  insurance,  Southbridge. 
Robinson,  Edwin  18,  S. ;  book-binder,  Boston ;  1910,  Boston. 
Roe,  Walter  AY.  18,  S. ;  student,  Brooklyn,  X.  Y. ;  real  name 
'  Win.  Tryon;    vide  L.  W.  D.,  Jan.  10,   1906;    1910,  Lima, 

Peru. 

Schromm,  John  22,  — ;  teamster,  Roxbury. 
Sheehan,  Cornelius  IT.  20,  S. ;  plumber,  Boston. 
Stevens.  Charles  E.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  dis.  Sept.  19,   '64, 

to  re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass. 
Stevens,  George  24,  — ;  painter,  Lowell. 
Sullivan,  Daniel  S.  19,  S. ;  sawyer,  Boston. 
Sullivan,  Patrick  18,  S. :  apprentice.  Boston. 
Swallow,  Thomas  J.  18,  S. ;     student,     Boston;     1910,  S.  H., 

Chelsea, 
Tenney,  George  L.  22,  — ;  laborer.  Orange;  later    Co.  C,  1st 

Batt.  Cavalry. 
Thompson,  James  E.  18,  S. ;  printer,  Xew  York;  later    Co.  M, 

2d  Cavalry. 
Tibbetts,  George  AY.  18,  S. :  farmer,  Kensington,  X.  H. 


444    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Tucker,  George  A,  24,  — ;  teamster,  Roxbury. 

Turner,   William   J.    18,    S. ;     wheelwright.     Boston;      1910, 

Spring-field. 
Tyree,  John  C.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Boston;  dis.  Sept.  19,   '64,  to 

re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass, 
Williams,  Henry  20,  S. ;  porter,  Salem;  dis.  Sept.  19,   '64,  to 

re-en.  Co.  B,  39th  Mass. 
Wright,  Joseph  R.  20,  S. ;  clerk.  Livermore,  Me. 

COMPANY  B. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  15,  M.  I.  July  25,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

*Served  in  9  months'  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

John  N.  Coffin,  38,  M. ;  expressman,  Somerville;  D.  of  C.,  July 
21,  '64 ;  absent  sick,  Fort  Marshall,  at  M.  0. ;  had  served 
8th  Battery,  6  mos.,  1862;  d.  1902,  Watertown. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*Charles  T.  Robinson,  28,  M. ;  locksmith,  Somerville ;  D.  of  C., 
July  21,  '64;  vide  Co.  B,  9  mos,,  1862-3:  1910,  Reading. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

*Granville  W.  Daniels,  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  D.  of  C., 
July  21,  '64;  vide  Co.  B,  9  mos.  1862-3. 

SERiGEANTS. 

*George  W.  Burroughs    (1st),  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  vide 

Co.  B,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*William  E.  Dickson,  21,  — ;  milkman,  Somerville;  vide  Co. 

B,  9  mos.  1862-3. 

Charles  E.  Hobbs,  24.  — ;  druggist,  Somerville. 
Philip  0.  Woodbury,  24,  —  broker,  Somerville;  1910,  Boston. 
Wallace  M.  Wotton,  22,  — ;  engineer,  Boston. 


COMPANY  B. 


P.  O.  Woodbury. 

F.  W.  Johnson. 


Co.  B. 


Geo.  W.  Burroughs. 


F.  G.  Williams 
Chas.  E.  Hobbs. 


CORPORALS. 

Edward  H.  Aiken,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville;  lat.  add.  Cam 
bridge. 

Jabez  P.  Dill,  23,  — :  clerk,  Somerville. 

George  H.  Hale,  19,  S. ;  baker,  Somerville. 

Frederick  W.  Johnson,  28,  — ;  farmer,  Somerville;  d.  July 
9,  1894,  Somerville. 

John  N.  McMaster,  27,  — ;  clerk,  Watertown. 

*01iver  M.  Ober,  19,  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown;  vide  Co.  K,  9 
mos.,  1862-3;  1910,  Elgin,  111. 

Amos  Pettingill,  18,  S. ;  engineer,  Cambridge. 

Frank  G.  Williams,  28,  — ;  hardware,  Somerville;  1910,. 
Somerville. 


446    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

MUSICIANS. 

Edward  S.  Hopkins,  19,  S. ;  glass-worker,  Cambridge. 
Frank  Walburg,  19,   S. ;  glass-engineer,  Somerville ;  d.  June 
19.  1910,  Somerville. 

PRIVATES. 

Allen,  Samuel  J.  22,  — ;  clerk,  Boston;  lat.  add.  Cambridge. 

Bailey,  Alvin  R.  18,  S. ;  bookkeeper,  Somerville ;  b.  Charles- 
town:  lived  Somerville;  Pres,  5th  Regt.  Association, 
1907-8;  Treas.  since  1904;  Adjt.  and  Commander  Post 
11,  G.  A.  R.;  has  held  staff  positions  both  State  and 
national ;  member  of  Sons  of  American  Revolution  and 
many  clubs;  Secretary  of  Franklin  Mining  Co.  and  other 
organizations. 

Bartlett,  Henry  A.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  East  Windsor,  Conn. 

Blanchard,  Augustus  B.  22,  — :  machinist,  Charlestown. 

Bradley.  James  R.  24,  — ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham. 

Brennan,  James  E.  19,  S. ;  laborer,  Watertown ;  d.  Oct.  16, 
1900,  Cambridge. 

Buckman,  William  T.  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Somerville ;  later  Co. 
M,  3d  Cavalry. 

Calef ,  Horatio  S.  21,  S. ;  machinist,  Cambridge ;  had  served 
Co.  H,  50th  Mass. 

Carter,  Henry  F.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Somerville. 

Cochrane.  Edmund  W.  18,  S. ;  machinist,  Northfield,  Vt. 

Crown,  William  S.  18,  S,;  clerk,  Charlestown. 

Curran,  21,  S. ;  machinist,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Davenport,  Charles  H.  24,  — •;  cabinet-maker,  Cambridge. 

Davis,  James,  19,  S. ;  turner,  Charlestown. 

Dennis,  John,  20.  S. ;  -          -  Cambridge;  1910,  Allston. 

Draper,  George  L.  21,  — ;  clerk,  Boston. 

*Dunn,  James,  19,  — ;  laborer,  Watertown;  vide  Co.  K,  9 
mos.,  1862-3;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Cavalry;  d.  Marlboro. 

Ellis,  James  W.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Cambridge. 

Flanders,  Charles  E.  20,  S. ;  glass-worker.  Cambridge;  1910, 
Boston. 

Freeman,  Charles  H.  18,  S. ;  machinist,  Norton. 

Freeman,  S.  Frank,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Norton. 


COMPANY  B.  447 

Furfey,  Patrick,  25,  M. ;  cabinet-maker.  Cambridge;  had 
served  in  Co.  A,  llth  Mass.,  also  in  the  Xavy;  having  de 
serted  from  the  llth,  his  service  in  the  5th  was  not  rec 
ognized  as  legal;  later  in  6th  Battery. 

Goodrich.  Herbert  I).  18,  S. :  farmer,  Fitchburg. 

Goodwin,  Walter  IT.  18,   S. :  upholsterer,   Cambridge. 

Hall,  Samuel  S.  25,  — :  clerk,  Worcester. 

Hart,  Edward,  27,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham. 

Hatch,  John  W.  20,  S. ;  laborer.  Somerville. 

Heath,  Timothy  II.  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Xorthfield.  Vt. 

Hodson,  Henry  18,  — ;  marble-cutter,  Somerville. 

Holman,  Alvin  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Fitchburg. 

Hopkins,  Lewis  P.  18.  S. ;  britannia-worker,  Cambridge;  1910, 
Worcester. 

Hurd.  Luther  22,  — ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Ireland.  James  L.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker.  AYatertown ;  1910,  Win 
chester. 

James,  Frank  A.  18,  S. :  milkman.  Somerville;  dis.  Sept.  19, 
'64,  to  re-en.  Co.  D,  25th  Mass. 

Knapp,  Samuel  18.  S. :  clerk,  Cambridge;  d.  Jan.  1907, 
Somerville. 

Lewis,  George  F.  18,  S. :  seaman,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Henry  33,  — ;  milkman.  Somerville. 

McCart,  James  19,  S. ;  teamster,  Boston  •  en.  and  M  I  July 
27,  '64. 

McCormick,  James  II.   19,  S. ;  blacksmith,   Cambridge. 

McCurdy,  James  19.  S. :  glass-blower.  Cambridge. 

McDermot,  Frank  30,  — ;  laborer,  Somerviile. 

Miller,  William  A.  21.  — ;  teamster,  Chelmsford. 

Morgan,  Charles  C.  21,  S. :  machinist,   Somerville. 

Xeiss,  George  B.  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Somerville;  dis.  Sept.  19, 
?64,  to  re-en.  Co.  D,  25th  Mass. ;  d.  Somerville. 

O'Lcary,  Arthur  AY.  19,  S. ;  designer,  Xeedham;  d. 
Somerville. 

Packard,  John  A.  18,  S. ;  surveyor,  Charlestown. 

Page,   Caleb  A.  19,   S. ;  clerk,   Somerville;  1910,  Somerville. 

Palmer,  George  E.  19,  S. ;  machinist,  Worcester. 

Peacock,  Edward  20,   S. :  photographer,   Somerville. 

*Pond,   John  A.   18.    S. ;   tinsmith,   Watertown;   vide   Co.   K 
9  mos.,  1862-3;  later  Co.  E,  1st  Batt.  Cavalry. 

Powers,  Joseph  E.  18,  S, ;  farmer,  AYeston. 


448    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Pratt,  Thomas  S.  22,  — ;  painter,  Somerville;  d.  Jan.  28,  1907, 

Rockville,  Conn. 
Prescott,  Warren.  R.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Charlestown ;  dis.    Sept. 

19,  '64,  to  re-en.  Co.  D,  25th  Mass. ;  1910,  Maiden. 
Preston,  Luther  H.  21,  — ;  mason,  Somerville;  1910,  Maiden. 
Putney,  Alvardo  18,  S. ;  carver,  Cambridge. 
Randall,  John  AVm.,  18,   S. ;  clerk,  Portland,  Me.;  later  Co. 

D,  29th  Me. 

Ricker,  George  F.  22,  — ;  clerk,  Somerville. 
Richmond.  James  18,  — ;  glass-inspector,  Cambridge. 
Robinson,     J.     Warner     19,      — ;     clerk,     Somerville;    1910, 

Roxbury. 

Rood,  Charles  H.  22,  — ;  clerk,  Northfield,  Yt. 
Russell,  William  0.   18,   S. ;  glass-cutter,   Somerville. 
Sanborn,  Tudor  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 
Stevens,  Samuel  H.  22,  — ;  shoemaker,  Somerville;  later  8th 

Battery;  d.  June  26,  1906,   Somerville. 
Stone,  Frank  S.  19,  S. ;  machinist,  Worcester. 
Taft,  Albert  M.  18,  S.;  machinist,  Worcester. 
Tufts,  Albert  20,  S. ;  upholsterer,  Cambridge. 
Tyler,   Charles   H.   21,  — ;     cigar-maker,     Somerville;     had 

served  in  Co.  E,  13th  Mass. ;  later  V.  R.  C. 
Vibbert.   Albert   H.   18,   S. ;     machinist,     Worcester;     1910, 

Taunton. 
Wellington,  Edwin  R.  28,  — ;  bootmaker,  Milford;  later  19th 

Unattached  Co.,  one  year. 
Wellington,    Samuel   L.   20,   S. ;   bootmaker,   Northfield,   Vt. ; 

later  19th  Unattached  Co.,  one  year. 
White,   Frederick  A.   19,   S. ;   teamster,   Somerville. 
Winnard,   Edwin   20,   S. ;   machinist,   Cambridge;   d.   Oct.   6, 

1908,  Somerville. 

COMPANY  C. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  16,  M.  I.  July  2,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

*Served  in  9  months'  term. 


CAPTAIN. 

*George  F.  Barnes,  29,  — ;  agent,  So.  Danvers;  D.  of  C..  July 
21,  '64;  vide  Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  d.  1896,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  C.  449 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*  William  L.  Thompson,  29,  — ;  law-student,  Lawrence;  vide 
Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  d.  Oct.  23,  1906,  Lawrence. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 


"Benjamin  F.  Southwick,  29,  — ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Dan- 
vers;  D.  of  C.,  July  21,  '64;  vide  Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3; 
d.  Oct.  11,  1906,  Peabody. 


SERGEANTS. 

*Lewis  A.  Manning    (1st),  25,  S. ;  butcher,  So.  Danvers;  vide 
Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  1910,  Salem. 

*  George  H.  Little,  23,   S. ;   engraver,   So.  Danvers ;  vide   Co. 

C,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

*  Joseph  X.  Burbeck,  30,  S. ;  tallow-chandler,     So.     Danvers; 

vide  Co.   C,  9  mos..  1862-3;  1910,  Peabody. 
*William  H.  Hildreth,  19,  S. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers ;  vide  Co. 

C,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
Henry  H.   Waugh,   25,   M. ;     boot-maker,      Stoughton ;     had 

served    Co.  1,  12th  Mass. 


CORPORALS. 

Frank  D.  Tripp,  24,  S. ;  machinist,  Taunton:  had  served  Co. 
G,  4th  Mass.,  9  mos. ;  d.  Dec.  6,  1904.  Oak  Bluffs. 

*  James  L.  Waterman,  20,  S. ;  currier.  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co. 

C,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
Edward  B.  Durfee,  23,  S. ;  clerk.  Fall  River ;  had  served    Co. 

C,  4th  Mass. ;  9  mos. 
Frank  P.  Reed,  19,   S. ;  currier.   So.  Danvers;     had     served 

Salem  Cadets. 
Thomas  L.  Putnam.  21,  — ;  clerk,   So.  Danvers;  had  served 

Salem  Cadets. 
^Benjamin  X.  Moore,  22,  S. ;  clerk.  So.  Danvers  •  vide  Co    C, 

9  mos.,  1862-3;  1930,  Peabody. 

*  James  H.  Swett,  18,  S. ;  farmer,   So.  Danvers;  vide  Co.   C, 

9  mos.,  1862-3;  d.  Jan.  20,  1910,  Peabody. 
Isaac  D.  Paull,  21,  — ;  tinsmith,  Taunton. 
29 


450    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

MUSICIANS. 

Charles  L.   Mason,  21,   S. ;  harness-maker,  Rutland,  Vt. ;  en. 

and  M.  I.  July  25,   '64;  1910,  Rutland,  Vt. 
Arthur  G.  Leonard.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Taunton ;  d.  Aug.  23,  1905, 

Dekalb,  111. 

PRIVATES. 

Abbott,  Alson  B.  19,  S. ;  student,  Andover. 

*Beckett,  William  C.  19,  S. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers;  vide  Co. 

C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  1910,  Peabody. 

Bodge,  William  H.  18,     S. ;     currier,     So.     Danvers;     1910, 

Peabody. 

Bosworth,  Franklin  19,  S. ;  student.  Taunton;  1910,  Taunton. 
Brown,  Andrew  K.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers;  lat.  add. 

Danvers. 
Buxton,   Simon  P.  18,     S. ;     farmer,     So.     Danvers ;     1910, 

Peabody. 

*Carr,  Charles  E.  20,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers. 
Durant,  Leander  S.  18,  S. ;  mechanic,  No.  Bridgewater. 
Eldridge,  Lewis  Y.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers ;  d.  Yarmouth. 
Estes,  Robert  G.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  1910,  Peabody. 
Farnham,  George  A.  22,  S. ;  teamster,  So  Danvers;  later  Co. 

D,  4th  Cavalry. 

Finley,  John  W.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers. 

Gage,'  George  L.  19,  S. ;  farmer  Methuen;  d.  Nov.  26,  1899, 

Lawrence. 
*Galeucla.  Samson  B.  21,  S. ;  stone-cutter,  So.  Danvers ;  vide 

Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  1910,  Peabody. 
Glynn,  Charles  F.  21,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Berkley;  had  served   18th 

Unattached  Co.,  one  year. 
Graham,  George  S.  23,  — ;  cooper,  Townsend;     had     served 

Co.  D,  53d  Mass. 
Hall,  William  H.  20,  S. ;  clerk,   Salem;  had  served    Co.  A, 

50th  Mass. ;  d.  before  1887. 
Hamilton,   Charles  L.   18,   S. ;  mechanic,  Bridgewater;   1910, 

Brockton. 

Harrington,  George  E.  18,  S. ;  butcher,  Taunton. 
Haven,  Lewis  E.  20,  S. ;  case-joiner,  Waltham;  en.  and  M.  I. 

July  25,  '64. 
Hildreth,  Stephen  G.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Manchester. 


COMPANY  C.  451 

Hill,  John  Q.  18,  S. :  farmer,  Methueii;  1910.  Methuen. 

Holland,  Henry  Jr.    20,  S. ;  machinist,  Taunton. 

*Howes,  Micajah  C.  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Watertown; 'vide  Co    K 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 
Jacobs,  Andrew  N.  21,   S. :     currier,     So.     Danvers;     1910 

Peabody. 
*  Johnson,  Frank  E.  19,  S. ;  morocco-dresser,  Salem-  vide  Co 

C,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  1910,  Salem. 
Leonard,   Manlius  B.   19,     S. ;     engraver,     Taunton;     1910 

Taunton. 

Lonsdale,  James  22,  S. :  polisher,  Fall  River. 
]\larsh,  George  A.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers. 
Meek,  Henry  M.  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Salem;  later  Co.  E  1st 

Batt.  Cavalry;  d.  1910,  Salem. 

Merrill,  Hayden  A.  21,  S. ;  currier,  So.  Hampton,  N.  H. 
Metzger,  William  18,   S. :  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers :  later  4th 

Cavalry. 

Morse,  Charles  S.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Rehoboth. 
IMotley,  Patrick  18,   S. ;   farmer,   So.   Danvers. 
Munroe,  Benjamin  F.  21,   S. ;     machinist,     Taunton ;     1910, 

Taunton. 

Nichols,  Enoch  23,  S. ;  jeweler,  Winchendon. 
Nourse,  Samuel  W.  23,  M. ;  clerk.  Danvers ;  1910,   Peabody. 
Osgood,  George  H.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Sanbornton,  X.  H. 
*Paine,  William  H.  19,   S. ;  nailer,   Taunton ;  en.   and  M.  I. 

July  25,  '64;  vide  Co.  C,  9  mos.,  1862-3  ;  also  had  served 

18th  Unattached  Co.,  one  year. 
Parkinson.   Jacob   21,   S. ;   tin- worker,   New     Bedford;     also 

served  in  the  Navy;  d.  Aug.  16,  1900. 
*Pearson,  Amos  44,  M. ;  farmer.  Danvers;  vide  Co.  K,  9  mos., 

1862-3. 

Perry,  William  A.  18,  S.;  clerk,  Salem;  1910,  Salem. 
Place,  Charles  W.  28,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stoughton ;  d.  Brockton. 
Poor,  Frank  W.  19,  S. ;  currier,  So.  Danvers. 
Proctor,  Edward  W.  21,   S. ;   morocco-dresser,  So.  Danvers; 

also  served  in  Salem  Cadets;  d.  1896,  Boston. 
Raddin,  Albert  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  So.  Danvers. 
Rochester,  Dixon  M.  21,  S. ;  needle-maker,  No.  Bridgewater; 

had  served  Co.  D,  30th  Mass. 
Rounds,  Herbert  F.  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Rehoboth. 
Rounds,  Ira  F.  19,  S.;    farmer,  Rehoboth. 
Rowell.  Gideon  33,   M. ;  currier,   Danvers ;   1910,   Danvers. 


452    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


John  H.  Russell  (C). 
Jas.  R.  Johnston  (I). 


J.  F.  Whitney  (I). 
Alvin  R.  Bailey  (B). 


Rudclerham,  Charles  22,  S. ;  currier,  Qiiincy. 

Russell,  John  IT.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Metlnten. 

Sarford,  Asa  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Tannton ;  had  served  18th  Un 
attached  Co.  one  year. 

Shannon,  John  F.  18,  S. ;  farmer.  So.  Danvers:  d.  1902, 
Peabody. 

Shove,  Edward  18,  S. ;  nailer,  Acnshnet;  d.  Myrieks. 

Smith,  Richard  E.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  So.  Danvers;  1910, 
Peabody. 


COMPANY  D.  453 

Stackpole,  William  A.  18,     S. ;     weaver,     Lowell;     d.  1894, 

Ipswich. 

Stanley,  Gustavus  18,  S. :  shoemaker,  Manchester. 
Stiles,  Augustus  -2,  S. :  farmer.  So.  Uanvers. 
Stiles,   Charles  22,  S. :  farmer.   So.  Daiivers. 
Studley,    Timothy   Pi.    23.    S. ;   carpenter,    Tamitoii:   d.   1894, 

Taunton. 
Sweet,    Horace   W.    23,    S. :    clerk,    Marblehead :    d.    Aug.    20. 

1909,  Marblehead. 
*Symonds,  Charles  A.  18,  S. :  farmer,  Salem;  vide  Co.   C,  9 

mos.,  1862-3;  later  Co.  E.  1st  Batt.  Cavalry. 
*Teel,  George  C.  19,  S.:    currier,  So.  Danvers;    vide  Co.  C,  9 

mos.,  1862-3;    1910,  Salem. 

Thatcher,  Thomas  X.  23,  S. :  tinsmith,  Fairhaven;  1910,  Fair- 
haven. 
Tilton,   Sherburn  S.  20.  S. ;  farmer.  Methuen ;  also  borne  as 

"Sheridan"  S. ;  1910,  Xeedham. 
Trask,  Samuel  P.  19,  S. ;  clerk.  Danvers. 

Tuckerman,   Albert  H.   20,   S. ;   manufacturer,   Ashburnham. 
Turner,  Erdex  T.  20,  S. :  clerk,  Danvers;  1910,  Xatick. 
Wardwell,   Henry     24,   S. ;     student,     So.     Danvers ;     1910, 

Peabody. 

Welch,  William   P.   29,    S. ;   farmer,   Salem. 
White,  Edson  H.  18,  S. ;  nailer,     Taunton:     en.  and     M.  I. 

July  25,  '64. 

Whittemore,  Henry  21,   S. ;  student,  Hopkinton. 
Wiley,  Zachary   T.   19.   S. ;   shoemaker,   Lynnfield ;   later   Co. 

M,  3d  Cavalry;  1910,  Lynn. 
Wordell,  Uriah  25,  S. ;  tinsmith,  Taunton. 
Wordell,  Weston  21,  S.;   machinist,  Taunton. 

COMPANY  D. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  13,  M.  I.  July  18,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

fServed  in  3  months'  term.     *Served  in  9  months'  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

f*Georg-e  H.  Marden,  Jr.  25,  M. ;  painter,  Charlestown ;  D. 
of  C.,  June  1,  '64;  vide  Co.  C,  3  mos.,  1861,  also  Co.  D, 
9  mos.,  '62-3;  d.  March  22,  1900,  Charlestown. 


454    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

t*Charles  P.  Whittle,  24,  M. ;  polisher,  Charlestown;  D.  of 
C.,  June  1,  '64;  vide  Co.  C,  3  mos.,  '61,  also  Co.  D,  9 
mos.,  1862-3;  b.  Charlestown,  June  26,  1841;  since  the 
war,  furniture  mfr.,  Boston;  Past  Commander  Post  11, 
G.  A.  R, ;  1910,  Boston. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

t*George  W.  Kilham,  26,  S. ;  stone-cutter,  Charlestown;  vide 
Co.  C,  3  mos.,  1861,  also  9  mos.,  1862-3. 


SERGEANTS. 

f*George   Chell    (1st);  teamster,   Charlestown;   vide   Co.   C, 

3  mos.,  '61,  also  Co.  D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*John  E.  Harden,  23,   S. ;  artist,   Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D, 

9  mos.,  1862-3 ;  1910,  Somerville. 
*Edward  G.   Fox,   23,   S. ;   cabinet-maker,   Charlestown ;   vide 

Co.  D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*  Alexander  E.   Ilewes,  23,  S. ;  machinist,   Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*Charles  J.  Carney,  19,  S. ;  photographer,  CharlestoAvn ;  app. 

from  Corp.,  Oct.  21,  '64;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 


CORPORALS. 

*  Albert  C.  Abbott,  24,  S. ;  fireman,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 

*  John  Ward,.  26,  sail-maker,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  D,  9  mos., 

1862-3 ;  ^1910,  Charlestown. 

William  A.  Stodder,  26,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
*Philip  E.  Cassidy,  25,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*John  Durgin,   25,   S. ;   gilder,    Charlestown ;   vide   Co.   D,   9 

mos.,  1862-3,  as  John  J. 


COMPANY  D.  455 

f  Elijah  D.  Gossom,  28.  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

C,  3  mos.,  '61,  also  Co.  K,  16th  Mass. ;     and    Co.  A,     2d 

Cavalry. 
tEngene    J.   Miller.   23,   S. :   teamster,   Boston;   app.   Oct.   21, 

?64;  vide  Co.  C,  mos..  1861. 
Howard     F.     Rowe,     21,     S. ;     caulker,     Charlestown ;     app. 

Oct.  21,  '64. 


MUSICIANS. 

James  M.  Jackson,  18,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown ;  d.  Oct.  10, 

'64,  Ft.  McIIenry,  Baltimore. 
Daniel  Coughlin,  16,  S. ;  musician,  Charlestown. 


PRIVATES. 

Anderson,  Daniel  AY.  20.  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 

Badger,  Stillman  31,  M. ;  paper-hanger,  Charlestown. 

Bent,  George  H.  19.  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 

Berry,  Charles  19,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown. 

Blake,  Charles  AY.  27,  S. ;  farmer,  Dorchester. 

Bnllard,  Charles  D.  18,  8. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 

Colburn,  Charles  F.  32,  M. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 

Cross,  Eben  AT.  18,  8. ;  laborer.  Charlestown. 

Dooley,  James  A.  19.  S. ;  upholsterer,  Cambridge;  later  in  the 

Xavy  as  James  D. 
Drown,  Albion  II.   20,   8.;     blacksmith,     Charlestown;   1910, 

Maiden. 
*Esler,  George  II.  29,  S. :  ])ainter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  D, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Foster,  AVilliam  B.  18,  S. ;  sawyer.  Charlestown. 
Gabriel,      Charles     20,      S. ;     'laborer,      Charlestown;      1910, 

Charlestown. 

Gage,  Moses  II.  21,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
Gahn,  Joseph  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown ;  had  served  in 

Band,  20th  Mass.,  as  Adolph  Cellarins. 
Gardner,  George  19.  S. ;  barber,  Boston. 
Gilbert,  John  II.  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 
Grace,  AVilliam  L.  22,  S. ;  printer,  Charlestown. 
Grant,  George  AY.  18,  S. ;  baker,  Charlestown. 
Green,  Daniel  L.  38,   M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 


456    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Hammond,  George  A.  18,  S. ;  printer,  Charlestown. 

Harnoy,  James  M.  23,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown. 

Harrington,  John  G.  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston  :  d.  before  1890. 

Harrington,  Thomas  J.  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 

Hatch,  Seth  32,  S. ;  seaman,  Charlestown;  1910,  New 
Bedford. 

Hertel,  Frederick  W.  18,  S. ;  baker,  Charlestown;  had  served 
Co.  K,  2d  Cavalry. 

Hollis,  Frederick  A.  23,  M. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 

Hollis,  William  L.  25,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  had  served 
Co.  K,  1st  Mass. 

Holmes,  Edward  A.  20,  S. ;  milkman,  Charlestown. 

Huff,    George  H.  18,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown. 

Hunter,  Michael  C.  18,  S. ;  varnisher,  Xew  Brunswick.  Nova 
Scotia;  later  Co.  B,  62d  Mass. 

Jones,  Howard  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 

Keef e,  James  J.  22,  S. ;  Charlestown ;  served  also  in  the  Navy. 

Kennedy,  Edward  H.  22,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 

Kimball,  Lorenzo  B.  19,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 

fLake,  Alpheus  A.  25,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 
C,  3  mos.,  ?61 ;  served  also  8th  Battery,  6  mos. ;  d.  Feb. 
11,  1900,  Charlestown. 

Lander,  William  D.  24,  M. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown;  had 
served  Co.  K,  12th  Mass. 

Lenahan,  Michael  W.  19,  S. ;  plumber,  Charlestown. 

Libby,  Charles  W.  18,  S.;  machinist,  Cambridge;  a  near 
relative  of  the  Libby  &  Son  whose  "Grocers  and  Ship- 
chandlers'"  warehouse  in  Richmond  was  the  famous 
rebel  prison  of  war-times;  1910,  Medford;  for  46  years 
he  has  represented  the  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Co.  in 
the  North,  South  and  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

Mack,  Edward  A.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Macomber,  Charles  20,  S. ;  seaman,  Charlestown ;  also  in  the 
Navy  as  Charles  H. 

Madden,  Thomas  F.  19,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown;  1910, 
Wakefield. 

Mason,  Daniel  20,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown ;  later  Co.  L, 
3d  Cavalry. 

McCabe.  James  F.  22,  S. ;  machinist,  Boston. 

McDonald,  Joseph  H.  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Charlestown. 

McEleney,  Philip  J.  19,  S. ;  teamster,  Boston. 

Mclntire,  James  18,  S. ;  laborer,  Boston ;   1910,   Dorchester. 


COMPANY  D. 


45; 


Chas.  W.  Libby  (D). 
Capt.  G.  H.  Homer  (A) 


J.  W.  Wheeler  (E). 
John  Q.  Hill  (C.) 


458    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

fMcIntire,  John  C.  23,  S. :  cigar-maker,  Boston ;  vide  Co.  C, 

3  mos.,   '61 :  also  Co.  E,  22d  Mass. 
*McLeod,   John  31,   M. ;   rope-maker,   Charlestown ;  vide   Co. 

D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Middleton,  James  W.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Minot,  Johan  27,  S. ;  ginsmith,  Boston. 
*Poor,  James  W.  23,  S. ;  chair-maker,  Charlestown;  vide  Co. 

D.  9  mos.,  1862-3 ;  d.  1903,  Charlestown. 
Putnam,  George  20,  S. ;  sail-maker,  Chelsea;  later  Co.  H,  61st 

Mass.,  as  George  W. 
Putney,  Horace   B.   20,   S.;   carver,   Cambridge;    had,  served 

Co.  B,  47th  Mass. 
*RandaIl,   John  C.   18,   S. ;   engineer,   Charlestown;   vide   Co. 

D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Richards.  Charles  H.  19,  S. ;  moulder,  Chelsea. 
Robie,  Henry  L.  19,  S. ;  moulder,  Charlestown. 
Robinson.  Charles  19,  S. ;  carver,  Charlestown. 
Sanderson,  Fred  19,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown. 
*Seavey,  Albert  23,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  H, 

9  mos.,  1862-3;  also  Paymaster's  clerk,  Navy. 
Simonds.  William  F.  18,  S. ;  currier,  Charlestown. 
Smith.   Charles  II.     18,   S. ;     machinist,     Charlestown;     had 

served  Co.  E,  47th  Mass. 

Smith,, Edward  F.  18,  S.;  gold-beater,  Charlestown. 
Stockier,   Joseph   F.    18,   S. ;    carpenter,      CharlestoAvn ;      had 

served   Co.   I,.  48th   Mass. ;   "he  says  his  name  is  Stod- 

dard,"  1910,  Boston. 

Tibbets,  David  W.  24,  M. ;  baker.  Charlestown. 
Tolman,  Horace  J.,,  19,  S. ;  gold-beater,  Medford. 
Towne,  Howard  M.  19,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
Turnbull,  John  H.  18,  S. ;  printer,  Charlestown. 
Wemyss,   Charles  C.  21,   S. ;   cabinet-maker,   Charlestown. 
Whitney,  Moses  25,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 
Woodbury,    Henry   W.    23,    S. ;    carver,      Charlestown ;      had 

served  8th  Battery,  6  mos. ;  1906,  Allston. 
Wright,   Thomas  II.   21,    S. ;  blacksmith,    Charlestown;   1910, 
•   Boston. 


COMPANY  E.  459 

COMPANY  E. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  15,  M.  I.  July  22,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

*Served  in  9  months '  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

David  L.  Brown,  38,  M. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  D.  of  C.,  July 
13,   ?64 ;  had  served  as  Captain.  13th  Mass. 


Lieut.  \Vm.  B.  Rice. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 


George   L.    Crosby,    31,   M. ;    painter,    Marlboro;   had   served 
13th  Mass. ;  D.  of  C.,  July  13,  '64. 


SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 


William  B.  Rice,  24.  M.:    manufacturer,  Marlboro;  D.  of  C., 
July  13,  1864;  d.  May  21,  1907. 


460    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

SERGEANTS. 

Alfred  D.  Gleason   (1st),  18,  S. ;  student,  Stow:  1910,  Stow. 
T.  Augustus  Hills,  23.  M. ;  clerk,  Leominster,  had  served  Co. 

C,  53d  Mass.;  1910,  Leominster. 
Sylvanus  H.   Parker,   26,   M. ;     shoemaker,     Marlboro ;     had 

served  Co.  I,  13th  Mass. 
Moses  P.  Rice,  25,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  had  served  Co. 

I.  13th  Mass. ;  d.  1894,  Xorthboro. 
Ephraim  Gates  Jr.,  27,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stow. 


CORPORALS. 

John  Brown,  34,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  had  served  Band, 

13th  Mass. ;  1910,  Marlboro. 
Henry     N.     Spring-,     23,     S. ;     mason,     Leominster;     1910, 

Leominster. 

Frank  McKendry,  25,  S. ;  carpenter,  Dorchester. 
Francis  G.  Carter,  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Leominster;  had  served  Co. 

C,  13th  Mass. 
George  A.  Damon,  21,  S. ;     comb-maker,     Leominster ;     had 

served  Co.  A,   36th  Mass.;  1910,  Leominster. 
^George  0.  Priest,  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co.  I, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 
Charles  F.   Pierce,   18,   S. ;   student,  Pawtucket,   R.   I.;   1910. 

Providence,  R.  I. 
John  F.  Whiting,  18,  S.;   clerk,   Readville;    1910,  No.  Attle- 

boro. 

PRIVATES. 

Agin,     Thomas     18,     S. ;     shoemaker,     Marlboro ;     d.     1902, 

Marlboro. 
Albee,  Milton  H. ;  b.  Marlboro ;  26,  S. ;  painter,  Marlboro ;  d. 

Aug.  29,  1910,  S.  H.,  Chelsea,  a?.  72-11-9. 
Alley,   Edward  R,   18,   S. ;  clerk,  Marlboro. 
Baird,  James  H.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Marlboro;  1910,  Auburndale. 
Barnard,  George  G.-21,  S. ;  clerk,  Marlboro. 
Barrows.  Joe  E.   20,  M. ;  blacksmith,  Stow. 
Bennett,  Asa  A.  20,  S. ;  nail-maker,  Leominster. 
Bennett,  George  L.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Leominster. 


COMPANY  E.  461 

Bingham,   Charles  G.   19,   S. ;  -        — ,   Manchester;   en.   July 

26;   M.  I.  Aug.  8,  '64. 

Blackington,   George  D.   22,   S. ;   burnisher,   Attleboro. 
Brewer,  Henry  C.  21.  S. ;  farmer,  Xorthboro. 
Brigham,  Adington  M.  27,  M. :  farmer,  Marlboro. 
*Brown,   Edward  A.   24,   S. :  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  vide   Co.. 

T,  9  mos.,  1862-3;    1910,  Gofftown,  N.  H. 
Brown,  George  F.  33,  M. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro. 
Bullard,  William  IT.  24.   S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Butterworth,  Alfred  D.  27,  S. ;  farmer,  Middleboro;  d.  Fall 

River. 
Butterworth,   Lloyd  X.    25,   S. ;     carpenter,     Middleboro ;   d. 

Middleboro. 

Clark,  Charles  W.  22,  M. :  farmer.  Leominster. 
Conant,     Harry     C.     17,   S. ;     student,     Leominster ;     1910^ 

Leominster. 
Cook,     Aldrich     23.  S. ;     mechanic,     Leominster;     d.     1895, 

Leominster. 

Cox,  Lucian  A.  23,  S. ;  clerk,  Marlboro. 
Cummings,    Augustus    F.    20,    S. ;    piano-maker,    Leominster ; 

1910,  Dorchester. 
Cunningham,    Charles   C.   18,    8. ;   farmer,    Hopkinton ;   later 

Co.  A,  62d  Mass. 
Davidson,  Edward  A.  18,  8.;  farmer.  Stow;  d.  Nov.  9.   '64, 

hospital,  Baltimore. 

Donally,   Thomas  21,  — ;  farmer.  Readville. 
Driver,  George  X".  19,  S. ;  -        — .  Manchester ;  en.  July  26 ; 

M.  I.  Aug.  8,  '64. 

Drumey,  John   21,   S. ;  brick-layer,   Marlboro. 
Dugan,  Michael  22,  — ;  laborer.  Marlboro. 
Elwell,  Henry  W.  21,  — ;  -        — ,  Manchester ;  en.  July  26; 

M.  I.  Aug.  8,  '64. 
Fairbanks,   Alonzo    P.    20,    S. ;    blacksmith,    Xorthboro;    1910, 

Worcester. 

Felton,  Henry  F.  21.  S. ;   shoemaker,  Marlboro;   1910,  Pasa 
dena,    California. 

Fitzgerald,  John  18,   S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Franklin,  Asa   M.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Attleboro;  had  served  Co. 

C,  4th  Mass. 
Gates,  Jerome  S.   18,   S. ;   mechanic,  Leominster;   had  served 

Co.  C,  53d  Mass. 


462    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


Adjutant  E.  F.  Wyer. 

Jas.  A.  Horton  (I).  S.  A.  Lawrence  (E). 

Oscar  Jones  (F).  D.  W.  Lawrence,  Q.  M.  Sergt. 


^Hastings,  E.  Merton  22,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  vide  Co. 

I,  9  mos.,  '62-3,  as  Edward  M. 
Henry,  William  E.  25,  M. :   printer,  Fitchburg';   had  served 

Co.  A,  53d  Mass. ;  1910,  Fitchburg. 
Hinckley,  Dexter  B.  34,  M. ;  mechanic,  Marlboro. 
Hudson,  Herbert  A.   18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Framing-ham ;   1910, 

Marlboro. 
Jones,  Edward  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  d.  Feb.   10,  1904, 

Marlboro. 


COMPANY  E.  463 

Kirby,  John -AY.  18,  8. ;  -        — ,  Marlboro. 

Larreaii,  Edward  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Leominster. 

Lawrence.  Samuel  A.  23,  S. :  carpenter,  Stow :  had  served  Co. 

D,  53d  Mass. ;  1910,  Stow. 

Loud,  George  AY.  36,  AI. ;  shoemaker,  Alarlboro. 
McAuslan,  James  25,  S. ;  painter,  Alarlboro ;  d.  Dec.  16,  1908, 

Marlboro. 
Mace,  Henry  AY.  20,  S. ;  laborer,  Fitchburs: :  had  served  Co. 

B,  53d  Mass.;  1910,  Fitchbnrg. 

AlcGee,  John  34*  AI. :  shoemaker,  Alarlboro ;   1910.  Alarlboro. 
Miles,  Alonzo  20.  S. :  farmer.     Stow ;     d.     July     21.     1901, 

Natick. 
Miles,   Lewis  H.   24.   — :   farmer,   Stow;   had  served   Co.   B, 

53d  Mass.;   d.  Nov.  13,  1903,  Natick. 
Morgan,  Thomas  19,  S. :  -       — ,  Alarlboro;  en.  July  26.  AI.  I. 

Aug.   8,    '64. 

Morse,  Julius  T.  20.  S. :  clerk,  Leominster. 
Murray,  Thomas  18,  S. ;  finisher,  Blackstone. 
Newton,  Frank  B.    18,   S. :   clerk,   Marlboro:   1910,   Fayville. 
Nichols,  John  AI.  32.  AI. :  shoemaker,  Alarlboro ;  1910,  Clare- 

mont,  N.  II. 

Nourse,  Adrain  T.  21,  S. :  clerk,  Leominster. 
Nourse,   Fred   F.   21,    S. ;   farmer,   Leominster ;   d.    Sept.    16, 

'64,  Brunswick  Station,  X.  J. 
Nourse,  Parkman  41.  AI. :   shoemaker,  Alarlboro ;  d.  Dec..  28, 

1908,  Hudson. 
Nourse,  Roscoe  H.  23.  S. ;  mechanic,  Leominster :  had  served 

Co.  I,  53d  Alass. 

Oaks,  Jefferson  G.  26,  S. :  farmer,  Alarlboro. 
O'Connell,      Daniel      18,      S. :      fuller.      Readville:      1910, 

Hyde  Park. 

Owens,  John  F.  18,  S. ;  comb-maker,  Leominster. 
Parker,   George  H.   25.   S. :   druggist,     Fitchburg ;      d.   1903, 

Andover. 

Perry,  Crosby  A.  26,  AI. ;  farmer,  Leominster. 
Piper,  Fred  G.  17,  S. :  clerk,  Leominster. 
Proctor.  AYilliam  T.  19,  S. :  shoemaker,  Alarlboro. 
Quigg,  John  22,  AI. ;  shoemaker,  Alarlboro. 
Reed,  Henry  18,  S. ;  operative,  Stow ;  d.  Boston. 
Richardson,   George  A.   18,    S. :     clerk,     Leominster;     1910, 

Leominster. 
Russell,  Austin  AY.   30.  AI. :  shoemaker,  Alarlboro ;  d.  before 

1888,  Marlboro. 


464    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Russell.    George   S.   18.      S. :     shoemaker,     Marlboro;     1910, 

Marlboro. 
Smith,  Granville  C.  21,  S. ;  laborer,  Barre ;  had  served  Co. 

F,  53d  Mass. 

Stevens,  Francis  E.  21,  S. ;  clerk.  Marlboro;  1910,  Waltham. 
Tebo,  Peter  20,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  later  Co.  D,  62d 

Mass. :  d.  March  6,  1902,  Marlboro. 
Thompson.   George  E.  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Tucker,  Nathan  T.  24,  S. ;  farmer,  Middleboro. 
Wallace,     Charles     E.   21,     M. ;     clerk,     Fitchburg;     1910, 

Fitchbur.u1. 
Wheeler,   Jedediah   W.   27,    S. ;     butcher,     Marlboro; 

Marlboro. 

Whiting,  Ithamer  24,  S. ;  farmer,  Dover. 
Whitney.    Edward   21,   S. ;   farmer,    Leominster;   had  served 

Co.'  C,  53d  Mass. 
Whitney,   John  W.   25,   S. ;  farmer,  Leominster;  had  served 

loth  Mass. 
Wilder,    Granville   W.    26,    M. :    mechanic,    Leominster;    had 

served  Co.  E,  6th  Mass.,  3  mos.,  also  Co.  E,  26th  Mass.; 

d.  July  7,   1903,   Leominster. 
^ilder,  John  W.  22,  S. ;  farmer    Stow. 
Wollmer,  John  A.  23,  M. ;  jeweler,  Attleboro. 

COMPANY  F. 

(Unless   otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  14,  M  I.  July  16,  M.  O. 
Nov.    16    1S64.) 


Philip  I.  Cootey,  26,  S. ;  salesman,  Boston;  D.  of  C.,  July 
12,  '64;  had  served  Co.  C,  44th  Mass.;  d.  1902,  Little 
Falls,  N.  Y. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 


William   C.   Goff,   24,   S. ;   salesman,  Boston;   D.   of  C.,   July 
12,  '64;  had  served  Co.  D,  44th  Mass. 


COMPANY  F.  465 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

Walter  C.  Fowler.  21,   S. ;  clerk,  Boston:  1).  of  C.,  July  12, 
'64;  had  served  Co.  A,  13th  Mass. 

SERGEANTS. 

Augustus   Jacobs     (1st),    20,    S. ;    clerk,    Boston;   had  served 

Co.   I).  44th  Mass. ;  1910,  Boston. 
Edward  AY.   Tres;  ott,   20,   S. ;   clerk,   Roxlmry;     had     served 

Co.  C,  44th  Mass. 
Loring  A.   Chase,   2-")7   S. ;   clerk,   Boston;   had  served   Co.    G, 

44th  Mass. 
George  E.  Walcott.  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston:  had  served  Co.  E, 

44th  Mass.:  1910,  Belmont. 
Charles  E.   Cook,   24,   S. ;   clerk.   Boston;   had  served   Co.   F 

44th  Mass. 

CORPORALS. 

William  A.  Gould,  23.  S. ;  mechanic.   Boston:  had  served  Co. 

K,  44th  Mass. 
George  H.  Bolles,  21,   S. ;  clerk.   Boston:  had  sorvc^l  Co.   H, 

44th  Mass. 
George  J.   Morse,   21,   S. ;   clerk,    Boston:   had  served  Co.    C\ 

44th  Mass. 

Winslow  Herrick,  23,  8.:  salesman.  Providence.   K.  I. 
Edward  D.  Cornish,  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Cyrus  A.  Page,  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  d.  .May,  1898. 
George  C.  Appleton,  21.  S.;    clerk.  Roxbnry:    d.  May  31.  !<)()(). 

Boston . 
George  C.  C.  Sturtevant,  23.  S. :  clerk.  Boston. 


PRIVATES. 

Arnold,  Alfred  E.  19.  8.,  clerk,  Boston. 
Atkinson,  William  ]).  43.  M. :  mechanic,  Boston. 
Avcrill,  George  IT.  18.  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  1910,  Arlington. 
Baker,  Benjamin   F.   24,   M. :   mechanic,    Boston. 
Bartlett,  Charles  E.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Barton,  Alfred   18,   S. :   meclianic,   Dedham. 
30 


466    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Blood,  Charles  F.  '20.  S. :  mechanic.   Fitchburg. 

Bond,  Frank  II.  17,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Bridge,  Samuel  C.  26,  S. ;  grocer,  Boston. 

Bruce,   Samuel  C.   18,   S. ;   mechanic,   Boston. 

Buffum,  Frank  F.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Bunton,  William  II.  18.  S. ;  clerk,  Boston:  later  Co.  D, 
62d  Mass. 

Carter,  Frank  21,  S. :  mechanic,  Dedham :  had  served  Co. 
D,  43d  Mass. 

Cheever,  Joseph  AY.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Clapp,   Ernest  A.   18.   S. ;   clerk,   Dorchester;   1910,  Reading. 

Claridge,  Albert  S.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Clark.  Charles  D.  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Cobb,  Charles  II.   22,   S. ;  clerk,  Gloucester. 

Crocker,  Josiah  T.  19,  S.;  clerk  Boston 

Gushing,  Robert  22.  S. ;  jeweler,  Boston. 

Danforth,  19,   S. ;  clerk,  Dedham. 

Dearborn,  Leander  17,   S. ;   clerk,  Boston. 

Dennison.  Julius  W.  19,  S. :  clerk.  New  York,  X.  Y. 

Dudley,  Joseph  V.  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Evans',  William  D.  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Ewer,  George  F.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Faunce,   William   II.   18,   S. ;   clerk,   Boston. 

Ferguson,   Harvey   C.   22,   S. ;  clerk,   Scituate:  d.  Whitman. 

Fiske.  Wilbur  A.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  1910,  Prov 
idence,  R.  I. 

Foss,  Granville  C.  22,  S. :  clerk,  Boston. 

Gay,   Edwin  W.  19,  S. :  clerk,  Boston. 

Grant,  Charles  E.  22,  S. ;  clerk,  Dedham;  had  served  Co.  C, 
5th  Illinois  Cav. 

Gustin,  Lorenzo  27.  S. ;  mechanic,  Boston;  later  4th 
Battery. 

Handy,  Charles  F.  20.  S. ;  clerk,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Hardy,   Stephen  E.   18,   S. ;  clerk,  Framingham. 

Harrington,   George  S.   19,   S. ;   clerk,   Boston;   1910,   Boston. 

Herrick,   Charles  F.   21,   S. ;   clerk,  Providence,  R.   I. 

Higginson,  Lewis  18,  S. ;  engineer,  Roxbury. 

Hill,  James  G.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston :  d.  Feb.  11,  1896,  Frye- 
burg,  Me. 

Ililliard,  Frank  S.   19,  S. ;  clerk,  Xewton. 

Holland,  Win.  A.  J.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Jones,   Oscar  18,   S. :  clerk,   Newton:   1910,  Peabody. 


COMPANY  F.  457 

Keith,  Henry  A.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Charles  L.  18,   S. :  clerk,  Boston. 

Kingsbury,  George  G.  18,   S.:  clerk,  Boston;  d.  Nov.  4,   '64, 

hospital,  Baltimore. 

Lawrence,  Wm.  H.  H.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Lethbridge,  Willard  H.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston;  1910,  Boston. 
Lincoln,   Revere  18,   S. ;   clerk,  *  Hingham. 
Lovett.   Frederick  H.   19,   S. ;  Boston. 
Lyon,  "Walter  F.  21,   S. ;  clerk,   Boston. 
Lyons,  Charles  E.  19,  S. :  clerk.  Boston. 
McClannin,  Joseph  W.  19,  S. :  clerk,  Boston. 
McLean,    John   F.   27,    S. :    clerk,   Boston;    later    Co.    A    1st 

Batt.  Cavalry. 

Mansfield,  Ezra  A.  22,  S. ;  mechanic,  Boston. 
Mansfield.    Theodore    F.    19.    S. :    clerk,    Boston;    had   served 

Co.  B,  44th  Mass. 

Maynard,  John  F.  19,  S. ;  printer,  Boston;  d.  Dec.  24,  1904. 
Xorcross,  Arthur  20,   S. ;  clerk.  Hopkinton. 
Palmer,   Charles  D.   18,   S. :   clerk,   Boston. 
Perry,  Charles  W.  B.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Nicholas  17,  S. ;  clerk.  Boston. 
Prouty,  Albert  B.   17,   S. ;   clerk,   Chelsea. 
Rand,  J.  Hovey  25,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Richards,  Edward  H.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Rogers,  Eugene  L.   18,   S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Salisbury,  William  (J.   19,   S. :  clerk.  Boston. 
Saunders,  Sidney  25,   S. ;  lawyer.  Windsor,  Yt. 
Shaw,  John  G.  17,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Slattery.  John  J.  17,   S. ;  drummer,  Boston. 
Smith  Sidney  L.   19,   S. ;   engineer,   Canton. 
Stoddard,   Elliot   22,    S.  •    clerk,    Boston;   d.   March   7.   1907, 

Boston. 

Tisdale,  William  34,  S. ;  clerk.  Boston. 
Townsend,  Edwin  A.  18,  S. ;  clerk.  Reading. 
Underbill,    S.    Augustus    18,    S. :      merchant.      Charlestown; 

1910,    Somerville. 

Yinal,   George  E.   21,   S. ;  clerk,   Boston. 
Weeks,   Henry  W.   20.    S. ;   clerk,   Dedham:   had  served   Co. 

D,   43d  Mass. 

Weeks,  Nathan  0.  21.  S. ;  clerk,  Dedham. 
Whitney,  Charles  J.  21,  S. ;  clerk,  Boston ;  d.  June  22,  1893, 

Boston. 


468    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Whittaker,   George  L.  23,   S. :   artist,  Boston. 
Wills,   Robert  28,   S. ;  salesman.   Boston. 
Young,  Carlos  G.  19.  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 
Young,  Frank  A.  19,  S. :  clerk.  Boston. 

INTERESTING  GLEANINGS  FROM  COMPANY  F. 

Only  2  men  were  married;  77  gave  their  occupations  as 
clerks;  the  oldest  man  was  43  years  old;  1  was  34;  2  were 
27;  2  were  26;  all  others  were  25  or  less;  57  were  20  years 
old  or  less ;  it  is  doubtful  if  any  younger  aggregation  served 
in  the  war.  Remembering  the  disposition  of  boys  in  those 
times  to  lie  their  ages  up,  it  is  fair  to  suppose  that  a  large 
proportion  of  the  younger  ones  were  considerably  less  aged 
than  the  rolls  would  indicate.  On  parade  their  beardless 
faces  must  have  suggested  a  beginning  Latin  class  in  a  city 
high  school. 

COMPANY  G. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  21,  M.  I.  July  27.  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

tServed  in  .°>  months'  term.     *Served  in  9  months'  term. 


*Charles  S.  Converse,  42,  M. ;  expressman,  Woburn;  D.  of 
C.,  July  25,  '64;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos,  '62-3;  d.  1899, 
Woburn. 

FIRST    LIEUTENANTS. 

f*Edwin  F.  Wyer,  31,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn;  D.  of  C.,  July 
25,  '64;  prom.  Adjutant  Aug.  24,  '64;  vide  F.  &  S. 

*Charles  E.  Fuller,  28,  S. ;  farmer,  Woburn;  from  2d 
Lieut.,  Aug.  24,  '64;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos.,  '62-3. 

SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

*Montressor  Seeley,  26,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn;  prom.  from 
Sergt,  Aug.  24,  '64;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  d.  be 
fore  1890. 

SERGEANTS. 

*Samuel  R.  Dolliver  (1st),  40,  M.  ;  policeman.  Woburn; 
vide  Co.  G,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 


COMPANY  G.  469 

*Thomas  J.   Hall,    28,   S. :   currier,   Woburn :   vide   Co.    G,   9 

mos.,  1862-3. 
^Horace  E.  Marion,  21.  S. :  student,  Burlington  :  vide  Co.  G, 

9  mos..  1862-3;  physician,  1910.  Brighton. 

*  Samuel  E.  Wyman,   29,   8. ;   shoemaker.  "Woburn :   vide   Co. 

G,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
^Thomas  T.   Ferguson,   30.   M. :     wheelwright:      app.      Com. 

Sergt.,   July  28,    '64;    vide  F.   &   S.;    1910,   Somervillc. 
*Charles  Parker,  22,  S. :  farmer,  Woburn  :  app.  from  Corp. 

Sept,  1,   '64. 

CORPORALS. 

*0tis  K.  Winn,  20,  S. ;  currier.  Woburn:  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos., 
1862-3. 

*Edwin  G.  Champney.  21,  S. :  artist,  Woburn ;  vide  Co.  G, 
9  mos.,  1862-3;  of  a  family  that  produced  several  ar 
tists  of  note,  he  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  the  restora 
tion  of  old  paintings  and  was  deemed  an  expert  in  such 
work;  dying  several  years  ago,  his  body  lies  in  Wood- 
brook  Cemetery,  Woburn. 

*Edmund  C.  Cottle.  21,  S. :  currier,  \Vestboro:  vide  Co.  G, 
9  mos.,  1862-3:  d.  Jan.  13,  1903,  Woburn. 

*  Webster  Brooks,  b.   Gardner,' Dec.,  1842;  22,   S. ;  tinsmith, 

Ashland;   vide   Co.   G,   9   mos.,   1862-3;   prominent  as   a 

citizen,  Free  Mason,  fireman.  G.  A.  R.  man;  d.  Oct.  16. 

1902,  Ashland. 

Charles  E.  Woods,  29,  S. ;  carriage-maker,  Milford. 
*Ephraim  W.  Hadley,  42,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Woburn :  vide  Co. 

G,  9  mos..  1862-3. 
*Samuel  R.   French,   31.  M. :   currier,  Woburn:   vide  Co.    G, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*George  A.   Flagg,   23,   S. ;   farmer,   Woburn ;   app.   Sept.   1, 

'64;  vide  Co.   G,  9  mos.,   1862-3:  d.   Oct.   30,    '64;  Fort 

McIIenry,  Baltimore. 
*George  A.  Kelley,   21,   M. :  currier.  Woburn:  app.   Nov.   1. 

'64 ;  vide  Co.  G,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

PRIVATES. 

Adams,    Henry   23,    S. ;   shoemaker,   Winchester. 
Allen,  Montressor  T.     21,     S. :     clerk,     Woburn;     d.     1897, 
Woburn. 


470    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Alley,  William  21,  S. :  currier,  Woburn. 

Bartlett,   Charles  A.   18,   S. ;   student,   Woburn;   also   Co.   B, 

1st  Batt,  H.  Arty. 

Bennett,  David  F.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Manchester. 
Bidwell,  James  F.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Agawam. 
Bradford,  Charles  W.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Milford. 
Brig-ham,    Salem   T.   39,   M. :   painter,   Wobnrn;   d.   Woburn. 
Brown,  John  S.  28,  S. ;  clerk.  "Wobnrn. 
Bullard,  Edward  D.  20,  S. ;  druggist,  Milford. 
Bnrbank,  Charles  28,  M. ;  clerk,  Medford. 
Butters,  George  S.  28,  M. ;  carpenter,  Woburn. 
Carter,  Charles  W.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn. 
Carton,  Richard  20,  S. ;  teamster,  Woburn. 
Chadbourn,  Humphrey  35.  M. ;  mason,  Woburn. 
Chamberlain,   Eugene   C.   19,   S. ;   boot-maker,   Milford. 
Cheney,   Almon   F.     19,    S. :     boot-maker,     Milford;      1910, 

Milford. 
Coffin,  Eben  M.    28,    M.;    carpenter,    Woburn;    1910,   Hub- 

bardston. 

Cook,  Edwin  H.  21,  — ;  clerk,  Milford. 
Cook,   Herbert  E.   19,   S. ;  boot-maker,  Wrentham. 
Cook,  Phineas  N.  19,   S. ;  bonnet-bleacher,   Milford. 
fCormick,    Peter   20,    S. ;    currier,    Woburn;    vide    Co.    G,    3 

mos.,  1861. 

Cummings.   Everett  25,   S. ;   currier,   Woburn. 
Curtis,  James  W.   22,  S. ;  porter.  Woburn ;  d.  Jan.  6,  1901, 

S.  H.,  Chelsea. 

Cutter,  Stephen  H.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  AYoburn. 
*Dean,  Henry  U.  33,  M. :  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co.   G, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Duren,  George  W.  21,  S. ;  butcher,  Woburn. 
Eaton,  Marshall  42,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Winchester. 
Ellis,  James  K.  19.  S. ;  clerk,  Woburn. 
Folger,  John  H.  19,  S. ;  milkman,  Belmont, 
Franklin,  Benjamin  A.   Jr.   24,   M. ;   boot-maker,  Milford. 
Frye,    Timothy   35,   M. ;   currier,   AYoburn. 
Greene,  John  *E.  24,  S. ;  butcher,  Milford. 
Hadley,  Henry  25,   S. ;  shoemaker,   Woburn. 
*Hall,   Joseph  W.   20,    S. :   student,   Dennis;   vide   Co.   E,   9 

mos.,  1862-3;  d.  June  26,  1898,  Brookline. 
*IIall,   Luther   21,    S. :   clerk,   Dennis;   vide   Co.   E,   9    mos., 

1862-3;  d.  April  29,   1900.   Dennis. 


COMPANY  G. 


471 


John  H.  lawyer  (I). 


E.  M.  Coffin  (G). 


P.  ().  Woodbury  (Hj 


ITalliday.  Fred  P.  24,  S.  ;  fanner, 

Harriman,    Hiram    88,    M.  ;    harness-maker.    AYobnrn. 

Heath.   Benjamin  27.    S.  ;   farmer,   Comvay,   X.    U. 

Hooper.  Charles  0.  20,  S.  :  clerk,  Boston. 

limit,    Perley   M.    24.    S.  ;   clerk,   Milford  ;    1).    Feb.    6,    1840, 

^lilford:   real   estate   dealer;   d.   April    1,   1910.    Dorches 

ter  ;  buried  in  Milford. 


472    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


Frank  A.  Newell. 


Fred  A.  Newell. 


IN  MIDDLE  LIFE. 


*Kimlmll,   (Jeorge  W.   38,   ]\I. :  carpenter,   AYoburn :  vide   Co. 

(.;,  9  inos..  1862-3:  d.  1894,  Wobnrn. 
*Knowlton,  James  II.   32.  M. ;  carpenter.  Woburn;  vide  Co. 

<},  9  mos..  1862-3;   1910,  Brockton. 
*Knox,  Joseph  J.   25,   M. ;   carpenter.   Woburii :   vide   Co.   G, 

9  mos,,   1862-3 ;   1910,  Brockton. 
Lawrence,   Eber   II.   26,   S. :   carpenter,   Woburn. 
Leach,    Augustus    IT.    22,    S. :    clerk.    Stoughton :    had    served 

Co.  C,  2d  Mass. 

Leonard,  William  24.   S. ;  farmer,  Agawam. 
Litchfield,  Lorenzo  19,   S. ;  clerk,  Medford. 
Littlefield,   Clarence  19,   S. ;   clerk,   AYoburn :   1910,  Woburn. 
Marden,  David  22,  S. :  tailor,  Woburn. 
]\Ierriam  Frank  E.  22,  S. ;  currier,  Woburn. 
*Moulton,    Elbridge    23,    S. ;    shoemaker.    Ashland:    vide    Co. 

E,  9  mos.,   1862-3:  d.  June,   1899,  Ashland. 
Xewell,    Frank   A.    19,    S. ;    farmer,    Franklin;    1).    Franklin, 

Aug.  8,  1845;   d.  Attleboro,  Aug.  1.  1894. 
Xewell,  Fred  A.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Franklin:  b.  Franklin,  Aug. 

8,    1845:    manufacturer     in     Franklin,    Fall   River   and 

Attleboro:    presented    soldiers'    monument    and    hall    of 

relics  to  Franklin;    1910,  Providence,  R.  I.;    d.  Sept-  20. 

1910. 


COMPANY  G.  473 

Xewhall,  Alfred  A.  20.  8.:  currier.  AYoburn. 

Parkhurst,   Herbert   21.   S. ;   clerk,   Milford:   1910.   Milford. 

Pearson,    Horace   R.    37,    M. :      blacksmith,      Burlington:      d. 

Sept.  10,   '64,  Ft.  McHenry,  Md. 
Perrigo,  James  G.  39,  M. :  boot-maker,  Woburn :  had  served 

Co.  B,  42d  Mass. :  later  in  Co.  F,  1st  Batt.,  IT.  Arty. 
Perry,   Emery  B.   39.  M. :  .shoemaker,  AYoburn. 
Perry,  Henry  AY.  29,  S. :  boot-maker.  Milford. 
Pettee,    Herman   A.    21.    8. :    machinist.    Stou.uhton. 
Pierce,  Warren  T.  18,   S. :  teamster,  AYoburn 
Pond,   Fred  A.  20,   S. :  clerk.   Milford. 
Poole,   Parker   T.   25,   S. :   shoemaker.   Woburn. 
Richardson,  Ceorge  AY.   23.   S. :   currier,   Woburn :   dead. 
Sawtelle,   AVilliam   II.   19.   S. :   farmer,   Winchester. 
Smith,   Norman    19,   S. :   tinsmith,   Ashland. 
Sullivan,    Thomas  V.   33,    M. :     machinist,     Woburn :      1910. 

Lynn. 

Sweet,  Albert  A.   22,  — ;  shoemaker.  Woburn. 
*Taylor.   Dennis   36,   M. :   shoemaker,    Woburn :    vide    Co.    G. 

9  mos..   1862-3. 
Tufts,   Wm.   Chester   22.   S. :   farmer,   Woburn:   d    .March   1 

1896,  S.  II,  Chelsea. 
*Wade,  Martin  Y.  28,  S. :  shoemaker,  Woburn:  vide  Co.   G, 

9  mos.,   1862-3. 
*AYalker,   James   II.   Jr.   32,   AT.:   currier.   AYoburn :   vide   Co. 

G,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
AA^ard,   Georp-e  F.    19.    S. :  bonnet-maker.     Ware:      1910.    So. 

Framingham. 
AYaugh,   AVilliam   AY.    19.    S. ;      boot-maker,      Stoughtoii:      d. 

March  4,  1910,  Boston. 
Wheeler,   John   S.    30,   M. :   machinist,     AYoburn:      d.      1907, 

AYoburn. 
AA7hitten,   Rufus  R.   28,   S. :   carpenter,   AYoburn :   d.   Alay   13. 

1908,  AYoburn. 
AYiHiams,    Frederick   G.   20.   M. :    boot-maker.    Milford:    later 

Co.  L;  3d  Cavalry. 

AA^illiams,   George  F.  28,  M. :   boot-maker,  Alilford. 
Wroods,  Fred  II.  21,   S. ;  clerk,  Milford;   1910,   Marlboro. 
Wright,  Daniel  Jr.  23,  M. ;  shoemaker,  AYoburn. 
York,  William  S.  39,  M.:    mason,  Woburn:    d.  -June  7,  1909, 

AYoburn. 


474    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

COMPANY  H. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  14,  M.  I.  July  20,  M.  O. 
Nov.   16,  1864.) 

tServed  in  3  months'  term.     *Scrved  in  t)  months'   term. 

CAPTAIN. 

t*Daniel  AYebster  Davis.   37,   S. ;   clerk,   Charlestown ;   D.  of 
C.,  July  16,  '64;  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861,  also  Co.  H,  9 
mos.,  '62-3. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*William  Spalding,  25,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C..  July 
16,  '64;  vide  Co.  IT,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

SECOND  LIEUTENANT. 

t Andrew  J.  Bailey,  24,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  D.  of  C.,  July 
16.  '64:  vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861;  for  many  years  cor 
poration  counsel,  city  of  Boston;  1910,  Charlestown. 

SERGEANTS. 

f  James  K.  Churchill  (1st)  ;  27,  M. ;  upholsterer,  Charlestown; 
vide  Co.  K,  3  mos.,  1861 ;  for  many  years  policeman  and 
furniture  salesman,  Worcester;  1880-  '83  Ass't  City 
Marshal;  1878-80,  commanded  Post  10,  (4.  A.  R,,  Wor 
cester;  1892,  commanded  Dept.  Mass.,  G.  A.  R, ;  1910, 
Worcester. 

*Wm.  II.  McAnslan,  25,  S. ;  milkman,  Charlestown;  vide  Co 
H,  9  mos..  1862-3. 

*  Thomas  R.  Roulstone,  24,  M. ;  ship-carpenter,  Charlestown .: 
vide  Co.  H,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  d.  Oct.  17,  1895,  Somerville, 

*Wm.  D.  F.  Miller,  25,  M. ;  spar-maker,  Charlestown ;  vidf 
Co.  H,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

*Alonzo  Parshley,  24,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co 
IT,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 


COMPANY  H.  475 

CORPORALS. 

*Ezra  B.  Kenah,  20.  S. :  rope-maker,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

H,  9  mos.,  1862-3;  1910.  Charlestown. 
*George  A.  Webster,  20,  S. :  clerk.  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  H, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*Wm.  H.  Archer,  22,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

H,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
*Thomas  W.   Mullett,   21,    S. ;   clerk,   Charlestown;   vide   Co. 

H,  9  mos..  1862-3;  d.  1908,  Charlestown. 
Henry  C.  Cutter,  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Benjamin  D.  Wiley,  28,  M.,  sail-maker,  Charlestown ;  d. 

March  22,  1902,  Charlestown. 
Eben  White,  Jr.,  19.  S.;    clerk,  Charlestown;   had  served  Co. 

B,  36th  Mass. 
George  B.  Eaton,  19.  S. ;  clerk,  Boston. 


MUSICIANS. 

*Charles  H.  Prentiss,  22,  S. :  clerk.  Charlestown ;  vide  Co.  F, 

9  mos.,  1862-3 ;  d.  1903.  Boston. 
Walter  C.  Kelley,  18,   8. ;  whip-maker,   Charlestown. 


PRIVATES. 

Barnard,  Henry  18,  S. :  clerk,  Boston. 

*Barstow,   Edward  F.   38,  M. :  carpenter,   Charlestown ;   vide 

Co.  H,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Batchelder,  George  18,  S. ;  farmer.  Exeter,  X.  IT. 
Blaisdell,  Charles  H.  22,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown;  later  Co. 

L,  3d  Cavalry. 

Caryl,  Henry  19,'  S. :  clerk,  Charlestown ;  1910,  Peabody. 
Caswell.  Jacob  A.  19.  S. :  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Cheney,  Benjamin  F.  18,  S. :  carver,  Charlestown:  had  served 

Co.  E,  47th  Mass. 

Chisley,  William  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Clark,  George  E.  21,  S. ;  painter  Charlestown. 
""Colbert,  Lawrence  E.  21,  S. ;  rope-maker,  Charlestown;  vide 

Co.  H,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 
Cole,  Albert  G.  19,  S. :  machinist.  Maiden;  d.  Sept,  17,   '64. 

Fort  Marshall.  Md. ;  had  served  Co.  H,  30th  Mass. 


476    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

*Colson,  Charles  A.  20,  S. :  clerk,  Charlestown;  vide  Co.  H, 

9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Cottle,  Albert  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Crowninshield,   Jacob   19,    S. ;    gas-fitter.    Charlestown. 
Cummings,  Lyman  W.  19,  S. :  gas-fitter,   Charlestown. 
Cutter,  William  B.  19,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Davis.  Henry  18,  S. ;  ship-carpenter.  Charlestown. 
Davis,  John  20,  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown. 
Downing,    Washington    Jr.    21,    S. :    carpenter,    Charlestown ; 

had  served  Co.  E,  47th  Mass.;  later  13th  Battery. 
Draper,  Samuel  22.  S. :  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Edmands.  Dexter  A.  19,  S. :  clerk,   Charlestown. 
Flanagin,  Mather  J.  18,  S. :  baker,  Charlestown:  later  Co.  L, 

3d  Cavalry. 
French,  Samuel  A.  41,  M. ;  carpenter.  Charlestown ;  d.  April 

6,  1906,  S.  H.,  San  Monica.  Cal. 
Gadd,  George  W.  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Exeter,  X.  H. 
Gilman.  Granville,  25,  S. ;  gas-fitter.  Charlestown. 
Goldsmith,  Horace  24,  S. :  clerk,  Manchester. 
Gowen,  John  18,  S. ;  baker,  Charlestown. 
Hadlock,  William  E.  20,  S. :  watch-maker,  Charlestown ;  had 

served  Co.  H,  29th  Mass. 

Hammond,  David  P.  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Tamworth,  X.  IT. 
*Harding,  Frederick  IT.  19,  S. :  clerk,  Charlestown  ;  vide  Co. 

H,  9  mos..  1862-3. 
Hatch,  John  Q.   18,  S. ;  baker,  Tamworth,  X.  II.;  1910,  San 

Francisco,  Cal. 
*Hitchborn,   Henry  G.   22,   S. ;   clerk.   Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Hill,  Frank  21  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Jordan,  Henry  L.  H.  18,  S. ;  turner,  Medford. 
Kidder,  Alanson  F.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Xo.  Groton,  X.  H. 
Lewis,  Charles  H.  23.  S. ;  blacksmith,  Charlestown. 
Loring,  George  H.  M.  18,  S. ;  farmer,   Shirley;  later  Co.  E, 

2d  Cavalry. 

Loureiro,  Constantine  21,  — ;  barber,   Charlestown. 
Lovejoy,  Frederick  A.  19,  S. ;  Fayette.  Me. 
McAllaster,  Benjamin  F.  19,   S. :  clerk,  Boston. 
Macdonald,  James  P.  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
Merritt,  Orlando  P.  19,  S. ;  clerk.  Boston ;  dead. 


COMPANY  H.  477 

Miller,  John  F.  21,  S. ;  boat-builder,  Charlestown ;  later  Corp., 

Co.  M,  3d  Cavalry. 

Murrey,  Edward  18,  S. ;  spinner,  Lowell. 
Murrey,  Michael  20,  S. ;  spinner,  Lowell. 
Xewhall,  George  W.  20,   S. ;   clerk,   East  Bridgewater;  1910, 

Stoneham. 

Norwood,  Howard  J.  20,  S. ;  machinist,  Rockport. 
Osgood,  Amos  G.  29,  M. ;  paper-hanger,  Charlestown. 
^Palmer.  Samuel  Jr.  27,  S. ;  teamster,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

D,  9  mos.,  1862-3. 

Poole,  Charles  F.  25,  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 
Prescott,   George  W.  21,   S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown;  had  served 

Co.  B,  36th  Mass. 

Reed,  William  C.  B.  19.  S. ;  painter,  Charlestown. 
^Richardson,  George  H.  22,  S. ;  potter,  Charlestown ;  vide  Co. 

D,  9  mos..  1862-3. 
^Roberts,  John  W.  25,  S. ;  roller-maker,  Somerville ;  vide  Co. 

B,  9  mos..  1862-3;  d.  Nov.  17,  1906. 
Robertson,  Wm.  H.  H.  18,  S.;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Sargent,  Andrew  J.  28,  M. ;  sail-maker,  Charlestown. 
Sewall,  Alfred  C.  25,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown. 
Seymour,  Herbert  F.  18,  S. ;  carpenter,  Charlestown. 
Simonds,  Nathaniel  P.  20,  S. ;  clerk,  Charlestown ;  had  served 

Co.  E,  47th  Mass. 

Stone,  Charles  H.  18,  S. ;  baker,  Maiden. 
Taggard,  George  E.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Abington. 
Titus.   George  F.  18,     S. ;     plasterer,     Charlestown;     1910, 

Charlestown. 

Vottier,  Alexander  G.  19,  S. ;  machinist,  Charlestown. 
Waterman,  Anthony  A.   18,  S. ;  clerk,     Charlestown;     1910. 

Somerville. 

Waterman,  Frank  0.  18,  S. ;  clerk,  Medford;  1910,  Medford. 
AVilson,  George  E.  18,  S. ;  tailor,  Charlestown. 


GLEANINGS  FROM   COMPANY  H. 

Of  the  84  men  in  the  Company,  8  were  married;  7  were 
above  25  years  of  age ;  46  were  20  vears  old  or  less. 


478    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

COMPANY  I. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  13,  M.  I.  July  19,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

*Served  in  9  months'  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

*  Andrew  A.  Powers,  33,  M. ;  shoe-cutter,  Bolton;  D.  of  C., 
April  18,  '64;  vide  Co.  I.  9  mos..  '62-3. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

*William  S.  Frost,  36,  M. :  mason,  Marlboro ;  D.  of  Co.,  April 
18,  '64;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  b.  Stukely,  Province 
Quebec,  March  20,  1828,  of  X.  E.  parentage;  came  to  the 
States,  when  eight  years  old,  to  Marlboro  Aug.  1,  1852 ;  in 
civil  life  he  was  chief  of  the  Fire  Dept,  1859-61;  an 
original  Republican,  he  was  Pres.  of  Fremont  Club  in 
1856  and  led  the  Wide-awakes  in  1860 ;  after  the  war  he 
served  on  nearly  all  important  town  committees,  includ 
ing  that  for  erecting  a  soldiers'  monument;  was  Master 
of  the  local  Masonic  Lodge,  three  times  Commander  of 
John  A.  Eawlins  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  served  at  headquarters 
of  the  Grand  Army  in  Boston,  and  was  on  the  staff  of 
the  Commander-in-chief ;  for  twelve  years  was  a  member 
of  the  City  Board  of  Assessors,  last  six  years  chairman ; 
d.  at  the  Homeopathic  Hospital,  Boston.  July  13,  1907, 
from  a  sudden  attack  of  cerebral  hemorrhage  while  on 
an  excursion  to  Revere  Beach  July  llth  preceding. 

SECOND   LIEUTENANT. 

*Luther  H.  Farnsworth,  35,  M. ;  shoe-cutter,  Marlboro ;  D.  of 
C.,  April  18,  '64;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  d.  Nov.  4, 
'75. 

SERGEANTS. 

*Levi  0.  Cunningham  (1st),  b.  Marlboro;  25,  S. ;  butcher, 
Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  d.  Jan.  9,  1910,  Marl 
boro,  <T.  71-2-0. 


COMPANY  I.  479 

*John  H.  Sawyer,  27,  8.:  farmer,  Bolton;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos., 
'62-3;  1910,  Worcester. 

*Amory  S.  Haynes,  24,  M. :  shoemaker,  Bolton;  vide  Co.  I, 
9  mos.,  '62-3;  b.  Bolton,  Aug.  19,  1840;  assessor  9  years, 
town  clerk  for  more  than  25  years;  d.  Bolton,  Mar.  9, 
1911. 

*Frank  Bean,  19,  S. :  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos., 
'62-3;  1910,  Marlboro. 

*David  B.  Whitcomb,  b.  New  Ipswich,  N.  H..  Oct.  6,  1837; 
26,  M.;  farmer,  Berlin;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  1910, 
Clinton;  18  years  8  months,  postman,  Clinton;  belonged 
to  Berlin  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  later  to  that  in  Clinton:  d.  July 
31,  1910,  Clinton. 

CORPORALS. 

*  Albert  A.   Wright,   27.   S. ;   shoemaker,   Marlboro :   vide   Co. 

I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  1910,  Hudson. 
^William  T.  Babcock,  23,  S. :  shoemaker,  Berlin:  vide  Co    I. 

9  mos.,  '62-3;  1910,  Maiden. 
*John  E.  Berry,  19,  S. :  carpenter.  Marlboro:  vide  Co.  I,  9 

mos.,  '62-3. 
*Henry  K.  W.  Andrews,  19,   S. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro;     had 

served  in  Co.  D,  30th  Mass. ;  vide  Co.  I.  9  mos.     '62-3  • 

1910,  Marlboro. 
*Edward  E.  Wright,   22,   S.;  machinist,  Marlboro:  vide   Co. 

I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  d.  Westford,  Oct.  16,  1891.  from  injuries 

received  at  the  burning  of  his  dwelling-house. 
"Mohn  F.  Rose.  35,  M. :  tailor.  Marlboro:  had  served  in  Co. 

I,   13th  Mass.:   vide  Co.   C,  9   mos.,    '62-3.   as   Frederick 

J.  Rose;  d.  May  22,  1901,  Hudson,  a?.  71-4. 

*  Ariel   Crosby,   36.  M. ;  shoemaker,  Waltham:  vide  Co.  I.   9 

mos.,  '62-3;  b.  Westboro.  Dec.  22,  1827;  after  the  war, 
worked  as  shoemaker,  and  was  on  Waltham 's  police 
force;  d.  Waltham,  Oct.  18.  1896. 

*  William  W.  Wood,  25,  S. ;  printer,  Middleboro ;  vide  Co.  I, 

9  mos.,  '62-3;  b.  May  18,  1839.  Middleboro;  schooling 
finished  at  Pierce  Academy;  1859,  shoemaker,  Marlboro; 
next  year  served  in  the  Wide-awakes  and  cast  his  first 
vote  for  Lincoln  ;  1863,  started  Stoughton  Sentinel ;  Nov. 
'64,  started  Marlboro  Mirror;  1870,  founded  Framing- 
ham  Gazette;  1873,  started  Newton  Republican  (now the 
Graphic)  ;  1877,  through  failing  health,  driven  back  to 
the  farm;  1910.  Middleboro,  employed  in  literary  work. 


480    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 


Lt.-Col.  W.  E.  C.  Worcester.  W.  F.  Brigham  (I). 

IN  LATER  LIFE. 


MUSICIANS. 

*Willard  G.  Bruce,  24,  S. ;  farmer,  Berlin ;  vide  Co.  I.  9  mos., 

'62-3;  1910,  Berlin. 
J.  Francis  Whitney,  21,  S. ;  packer,  Stow;  1910.  Winter  Hill. 


PRIVATES. 

Albee,     Charles     H.     19,  S. ;     shoemaker,     Marlboro;     1910, 

Marlboro. 
Aldrich.    George   32,    M. ;   shoemaker,   Marlboro ;    d.    Oct.    30, 

1903,  Waltham,  a?.  70-3-0. 
Andrews,  J.  Albert  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  d.  Oct.  3, 

1898,  Marlboro,  a?.  49-8-4. 
Atkinson,  George  45.  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stow. 


COMPANY  I.  481 

Ball,  Elliott  H.  20,  S. ;  farmer,  Bolton. 

*Bond,  Edmund  E.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  vide  Co.  I.  9 
mos.,  '62-3;  1910,  Worcester. 

Bordreau,  Peter  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 

Bride,  Josiah  W.  b.  Boston,  Nov.  23,  1845;  18,  S. ;  shoemaker, 
Berlin;  15  years  in  the  militia,  he  rose  from  private  to 
major;  1910,  Ashburnham. 

Brigham,  Alfred  A.  18,  S.;  butcher,  Marlboro;  1910, 
Marlboro. 

Brigham,  Wibur  F.  25,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  boot-man 
ufacturer;  d.  Nov.  16,  1901,  Hudson,  a?.  62-7-7. 

Brown,  Frank  E.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  1910,  Hudson. 

Brown,  Henry  E.  19,  S.;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  later  16th  Bat 
tery;  1910,  Hudson. 

Bryant,  Joseph  A.  19,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  d.  June  22, 
"  1906,  Belmont,  a?.  64-4. 

Carr,  Thomas  21.  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro. 

Cavanaugh,  James  28,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 

Clark,  G.  Alonzo  20,   S. ;  boot-maker,   Stow. 

Coburn,  Cyrus  E.  21,  S. ;  farmer.  Lancaster;  1910,  Worcester. 

Crosby,  George  O.  29,  S. ;  painter,  Marlboro ;  b.  Shrewsbury ; 
d.  May  14,  1907,  Marlboro,  a\  72-5-17. 

Darling.  George  26,  M. ;  shoe-cutter.  Marlboro. 

Darling,  Seth  W.  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Lynn. 

Davidson,  Francis  J.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Berlin. 

Dyer,  Edward  F.  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  d.  Feb.  7, 
1894,  Marlboro,  gp.  53-3-23. 

Eager,  Frank  R.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  d.  Jan.  19,  1905, 
Marlboro,  a\  61-11-13. 

Emerson,  Edwin  R.  33,  M. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro;  d.  Jan.  3r 
1910,  Templeton,  a?.  77-7-0. 

Fay,  Frederick  21,  S.;  farmer,  Marlboro;  d.  Jan.  30,  1903, 
Southboro,  ae.  59  years. 

Fisher,  Lyman  35,  M. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro. 

Gates,  Lyman  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  d.  May  10,  1901, 
Bolton,  a?.  56-11-9. 

Goode,  Thomas  23,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 

Gott,  Lemuel  Jr.  24,  S. ;  teacher,  Berlin;  d.  Aug.  29,  '64,  hos 
pital,  Baltimore,  from  sunstroke. 

Hartshorn,  Edward  H.  21,  S. ;  chemist.  Berlin;  d.  before  1888. 

^Hastings,  Augustus  L.  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  vide  Co. 
I,  9  mos.,  '62-3. 

31 


482    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Holden,  Lewis  C.  36,  M. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro ;  later  14th 
Battery;  d.  Sept.  4,  1902,  Marlboro,  a?.  74  years. 

Horton,  James  A.  18,  S. ;  printer,  Marlboro;  1910,  Greenfield; 
b.  Brookline,  N.  H.,  June  16,  1847;  Past  Commander, 
Post  174,  G.  A.  R.;  invented  the  "  Horton  Mailer." 

Howe,  Eugene  L.  18,  S. ;  butcher,  Marlboro ;  d.  June  5,  1901, 
Marlboro ,  ae.  55-8-20. 

Howe,  George  A.,  b.  Marlboro,  June  16,  1849;  18,  S. ;  carpen 
ter,  Marlboro;  d.  Nov.  7,  1909,  Marlboro;  long  in  the 
lumber  trade,  he  was  successively  Selectman,  Alderman 
and  the  2d  Mayor  of  his  city. 

Howe,  George  L.  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin;  d.  Aug.  8,  1898, 
Marlboro,  SB.  54-4-26. 

Howe,  John  H.  26,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  d.  June  24, 
1894,  Marlboro,  ae.  56-1-11. 

Johnston,  James  R.  30,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  1910, 
Portland,  Me. 

Keyes,  Sumner  "W.  21,  S. ;  farmer,  Lancaster;  1910, 
Lancaster. 

Latham,  Stephen  B.  26,  M. ;  machinist,  Marlboro;  1910, 
Hopkinton. 

Lavally,  Louis  20,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Savannah, 
Illinois. 

Lawrence,  Roswell  20  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  1910, 
Maiden. 

Lyman,  Richard  F.  19,  S. ;  printer,  Marlboro. 

Moore,  John  A.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro;  d.  Aug.  22,  1910, 
Hudson. 

Newton,  Christopher  C.  M.  19,  S. ;  farmer,  Bolton. 

Ordway,  Timothy  C.  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910, 
Marlboro;  d.  June  10,  1910,  S.  H.,  Chelsea,  ce.  68-6-17. 

Parmenter,  Henry  L.  35,  M. ;  machinist,  Stow;  1910, 
Brockton. 

Parmenter,  John  W.  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 

Parmenter,  William  A.  19,  S.;  farmer,  Marlboro;  1910, 
Brockton. 

Powers,  Amos  P.  b.  Gardner;  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  1910, 
Hudson;  contractor  and  builder  for  many  years;  promi 
nent  in  Odd-fellowship  and  the  Grand  Army;  1910, 
Hudson. 

Powers,  Edward  L.  17,  S.;  shoemaker.  Bolton;  1910,  Haver- 
hill. 


COMPANY  I.  483 

Kandall,  Herbert  N.  19,  S.;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  d.  Sept.  7, 

1901,  S.  EL,  Chelsea,  &.  56  years. 
Rice,  Charles  Walter  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  b.  June 

14,  1841,  Marlboro;  d.  July  11,  1908,  Pittsfield. 
Rice,  Henry  M.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Plymouth. 
Roe,  Charles  E.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  1910,  Minne 
apolis,  Minn. 

Scott,  Henry  18,  S. ;  farmer,  Marlboro. 

Smith,  S.  Franklin  21,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  1910,  Hudson. 
*Spoerell,  George  33,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  vide  Co.  I, 

9  mos.,   '62-3;  1910,  Elmhurst,  California. 
Stone,  Orville  E.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
*Stratton,  Isaac  19,  S.;  shoemaker,  Bolton;  vide  Co.  I,  9  mos., 

'62-3;  later  16th  Battery;  d.  before  1887. 
Tenney,  William  H.  27,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Berlin. 
Tolman,  Henry  J.  21,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Trowbridge,  James  C.  25,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro ;  d.  May 

30,  1899,  Hudson ,  ae.  60  years. 
Underwood,  Granville  19,   S.;     shoemaker,     Marlboro;  1910, 

Southville. 

Weed,  George  C.  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Wheeler,  Lowell  S.  22,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro;  had  served 

in  Co.  H,  33d  Mass. 

Wilkins,  Lewis  49,  M. ;  carpenter,  Marlboro. 
Wilson,  Henry  18,   S. ;  shoemaker,  Marlboro. 
Wood,  Charles  A.  23,  S. ;  printer,  Middleboro;  1910,  Brown's 

Station,  N.  Y. 
Wood,   Charles   T.    21   S. ;   shoemaker,   Marlboro;   d.   Oct.    2, 

1905,  Belmont,  ae.  62-1-1. 
Wood,   Stillman  P.     21,   S. ;     shoemaker,     Marlboro;     1910, 

Marlboro. 
*Woodbury,  Alfred  I.  33,  M. ;  news  agent,  Boston ;  vide  Co. 

I,  9  mos.,  '62-3;  d.  May  27,  1907,  Charlestown,  a3.  75-8. 
Wright,  Charles  E.  36,  M. ;    shoemaker,  Marlboro;    d.   April 

8,   1900. 


484    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

COMPANY  K. 

(Unless  otherwise  stated,  all  enlisted  July  15,  M.  I.  July  16,  M.  O. 
Nov.  16,  1864.) 

*Served  in  9  months'  term. 

CAPTAIN. 

Francis  M.  Sweetser,  26,  S. ;  machinist,  Stoneham;  D.  of  C., 
July  14,  '64;  had  served  Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  mos.,  also 
Co.  C,  50th  Mass.;  1910,  Stoneham. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT. 

Marshall  P.  Sweetser,  28,  M. ;  laborer,  Stoneham;  D.  of  C., 
July  14,  '64;  had  served  Co.  C,  50th  Mass.;  1910,  Boston. 

SECOND    LIEUTENANT. 

Moses  DoAvns  Jr.  25,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  D.  of  C., 
July  14,  '64;  had  served  Co.  C,  50th  Mass.;  d.  Feb.  3, 
1901,  Stoneham. 

SERGEANTS. 

Jefferson   Hayes    (1st),    31,    S. ;    shoemaker,    Stoneham;   had 

served  Co.  L,  6th  Mass,,  3  mos.;  also  Co.  C,  50th  Mass. 
Wm.  II.  Hurd,  24,  M. ;  clerk,  Stoneham;  prom.  Sergt.-major, 

July  28,  '64;  vide  F.  &  S. 
Joseph  W.  Fields,  26,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

Co.  C,  50th  Mass. ;  1910,  Woburn. 
George  Jones,  24,  S. ;  laborer,  Stoneham ;  had  served  Co.  C, 

50th  Mass. ;  1910,  Stoneham. 

Andrew  M.  Latham,  31,  M. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
John  B.   dough,   28,   M. ;   shoemaker,   Stoneham;   app.   from 

Corp.,  Aug.  16,  '64;  had  served  Co.  C,  50th  Mass.;  1910, 

Stoneham. 

CORPORALS. 
Eli  N.  Cotton,  20,  S. ;  laborer,  Stoneham. 


COMPANY  K.  485 

Myron  J.  Ferren,  28,  M. ;  engineer,  Stonehani;  b.  Corinth, 
Yt.,  Aug.  16,  1836 ;  in  Stonehani  since  1857 ;  Selectman, 
1871-75 ;  Board  of  Engineers,  1876-86 ;  Commander  Post 
75,  G.  A.  R.,  five  years;  Representative  in  Legislature, 
1889-92 ;  prominent  in  Odd-fellowship  and  Grand  Army ; 
1910,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Michael  Lahey,  24,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham ;  had  served  Co. 
C,  50th  Mass. 

Henry  C.  Keene,  22,  S. ;  laborer,  Stoneham ;  d.  Stoneham. 

Charles  Lane,  23,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham. 

Ira  G.  Perry,  31,  M. ;  laborer,  Stoneham;  d.  Nov.  17,  1907, 
Lynn. 

Alvn/E.  Hersey,  18,  S. ;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 
Co.  C.  50th  Mass. ;  later  Co.  L,  3d  Cavalry;  1910, 
Stoneham. 

John  Kingman,  38,  M.;  shoe-packer,  Stoneham;  app.  Aug. 
15,  '64;  d.  Sept.,  1903,  Stoneham. 

MUSICIANS. 

Dennis  A.  Barnes,  22,  M.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

8th  Battery,  6  mos.,  1862;   d.  1903,  Stoneham. 
Roscoe  M.  Flanders,  20,  S.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham. 


PRIVATES. 

Atkinson,  Benjamin  25,  S.;    shoemaker,    Stoneham;  lat.  add. 

Lynn . 

Austin,  Francis  H.  34,  M.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Bonville,  Louis  29,  S.;   boot-maker,  Weymouth. 
Briggs,   Jefferson  L.   24,    M.;     shoemaker,   Stoneham;     had 

served  Co.  E,  23d  Maine. 
Brown,  George  B.   19,   S.;    bonnet-presser,   Mansfield;   later 

18th  Unattached  Co.  1  year. 
Brown,  Robert  K.  18,  S.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham;   had  served 

Co.    C,    50th    Mass.;     later    Co.    L,    3d   Cavalry;    1910, 

Stonehani. 
Bruce,    George  W.    18,    S.;     shoemaker,    Stonehani;     1910, 

Marlboro. 
Butterfield,  William  G.  26,  M. ;    shoemaker,   Stoneham;    had 

served  Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  months. 
Churchill,  Asaph  K.  37,  M.;    saloon-keeper,  Stoneham. 


486    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Clark,  Moses  18,  S.;   shoemaker,  Ashland. 

Clement,  James  H.  20,  S.;   laborer,  Stoneham. 

Cobb,  Francis  E.  20,  S.;   clerk,  Perry,  Maine. 

Coffin,  James  34,  S.;   painter,  Stoneham. 

Coney,  George  A.  26,  S.;   carpenter,  Reading;  had  served  Co. 

D,  50th  Mass.;   b.  Reading;   d.  March  3,   1901;    S.   H., 

Chelsea. 

Converse,  Cyrus  37,  S.;   clerk,  Woburn. 
Cook,  John  O.  32,  M.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Crosby,  Daniel  G.  36,   M.;     shoemaker,   Stoneham;    d.   Feb. 

28,  1993. 

Cummings,  William  F.  18,   S.;   butcher,  Stoneham. 
Edwards,  Wesley  31,  M.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Elliott,  Winthrop  F.  32,  M.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham;   en.  and 

M.  I.  July  21,  '64;    1910,  Stoneham. 
Flanders,  Edward  P.  21,  S.;   Rumney,  N.  H.;   en.  and  M.  I. 

July  21,  ?64;   d.  Stoneham. 

Ford,  William  E.  21,  S.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Gilmore,  John  S.  19,  S.;  shoemaker,  Natick:  1910,  Stoneham. 
Grover,  George  H.  23,  M.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

Co.  A,  59th  Mass. 

Grover,  William  W.  18,  S.;    shoemaker,  Melrose. 
Hadley,  Aaron  S.  25,  M.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  months. 
Hadley,    George    H.     18,     S.;     student,    Stoneham;     1910, 

Lawrence. 

Hall,  James  H.  23,  S.;    shoemaker,  Methuen. 
Harriman,  Archibald  29,  M.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;    en.  and 

M.  I.  July  21,  '64. 

Harriman,  Franklin  38,  M.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Hawkins,  Edwin  D.  28,  M.;   shoemaker,   Stoneham;   d.   Mar. 

8,  1897,  Stoneham. 

Hewitt,  Henry  19,  S.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham, 
Holden,  Albert  N.  18,  S.;   mechanic,  Stoneham;    had  served 

Co.  C,  50th  Mass. 
^Hooper,  George  E.  shoemaker,  Woburn;  vide  Co.  A,  9  mos., 

1862-3;   later  Co.  L,  3d  Cavalry. 
Howard,    Byron    W.    19,    S.;      shoemaker,     Stoneham;      d. 

Stoneham. 
Jewell,  Charles  H.  23,  S.;    shoemaker,   Ashland;   had  served 

Co.  E,  1st  N.  H. 
Jones,   Andrus  B.    18,    S.;     farmer,    Pownal,    Maine;     1910, 

Nashua,  N.  H. 


COMPANY  K.  487 

Jones,  John  F.  21,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  d.  June  3,  1901, 

Stoneham . 
Jones,  Perez  C.    24,    S.;    shoemaker,    Pownal,   Maine;     1910, 

Stoneham. 
Keenan,  James  23,  M.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served  Co. 

L,    6th  Mass.,  3  months;   1910,  Stoneham. 
Keene,  Alonzo  24,  S.;    laborer,  Stoneham. 
Kelly,  Owen  21,  S.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served  Co.  C, 

50th  Mass. 
Lynde,  Granville  18,  S.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham;    later  Co.  L, 

3d  Cavalry. 

McCall,  Peter  18,  S.;    shoemaker,  Woburn. 
McKay,  John  25,   M.;     shoemaker,    Stoneham;    later  Co.   C, 

1st  Batt.,  H.  Arty. 
McNamara,    John    19,     S.;     shoemaker,     Stoneham;      1910, 

Stoneham. 
Martin,  John  W.  22,  S.;    hat-blocker,    Mansfield;    had  served 

Co.  H,  7th  Mass.;    later  18th  Unattached  Co. 
Moran,  John  25,  S.;    shoemaker,  Boston. 
Morse,  Sanford  A.  26,    S.;    machinist,   Mansfield;    later   18th 

Unattached  Co. 
Murray,  George  18,  S.;  shoemaker,  Woburn;  d.  Oct.  18,  1898, 

Woburn . 
Newhall,  Stephen  H.  19,  S.;    painter,   Lynn;    en.   and  M.    I. 

July  21,  '64. 

Xorris,  True  L.  18,  S.;    student,  Wobnrn. 
Paige,  Orm  20,  S.;    clerk,  Stoneham;  1910,  Stoneham. 
Peabody,    Daniel    D.    18,    S.;      musician,    Stoneham;     1910, 

Stoneham. 
Pennell,  Joseph  W.  25,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  months. 
Perry,    Augustus   E.   24,    M.;     shoemaker,    Stoneham;     had 

served  Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  months,  asEphraim  A. ;  1910, 

Stoneham. 

Peyton,  James  26,  S.;    shoemaker,  Stoneham. 
Phillips,  Harrison  L.  18,  S.;    nail-cutter,  Mansfield. 
Poor,  Charles  20,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  1910,  Stoneham. 
Quimby,  Lester  F.  20,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 

Co.  C,  50th  Mass. 

Raverty,  Hugh  19,  S.;    shoemaker,  Woburn. 
Richardson,  Daniel  K.   27,    M.;    teamster,    Stoneham;    1910, 

Medford. 


488    FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M.,  ONE  HUNDRED  DAYS. 

Bobbins,  Andrew  29,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  had  served 
Co.  L,  6th  Mass.,  3  months;  d.  Jan.  17,  1904,  Medford. 

Robertson,  Lucius  O.  19,  S.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham. 

Rowe,  Henry  30,  S.;   shoemaker,  Stoneham. 

Skinner,  Jacob  H.  18,  S.;   carpenter,  Stoneham. 

Smith,  Stephen  F.  26,  S.;  teamster,  Medford. 

Stearns,  Elijah  W.  22,  S.;  painter,  Mansfield;  en.  and  M.  I. 
July  21,  '64. 

Sturtevant,  George  E.  18,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  1910, 
Stoneham. 

Taylor,  Seth  E.  19,  S.;  laborer,  Stoneham. 

Thurlow,  Stephen  A.  22,  S.;  laborer,  Minot,  Me.;  en.  and  M. 
I.  July  21,  '64. 

Tillson,  Elijah  A.  19,  S.;  jeweler,  Mansfield;  had  served  Co. 
E,  1st  Cav.;  later  18th  Unattached  Co. 

White,  Henry  M.  38,  M.;  nailer,  Mansfield. 

White,  Herbert  H.  21,  S.;  machinist,  Mansfield. 

White,  Willard  L.  23,  S.;  nailer,  Mansfield;  later  18th  Un 
attached  Co. 

Wilson,  Joseph  W.  35,  M.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham;  later  Co. 
L,  3d  Cavalry;  d.  April  4,  1906,  Stoneham. 

Woodman,  Milton  C.  19,  S.;  shoemaker,  Stoneham. 


ERRATA. 

For  E.  A.  Howe,  title  page  and  preface,  read  E.  D.  Howe. 
Add  to  Kenah,  page  419,  Ezra  B. 
Add  to  Danforth,  page  466,  Noble. 


INDEX. 


Abbot,  Alson  B.,  450. 
Abbot,  H.  L.,  64. 
Abbott,   Albert   C.,   454. 
Abbott,  C.  H.,  367. 
Abbott,  X.  T.,  381. 
Abbott,  O.  G.,  330. 
Aborn,    George  W.,    76,    101, 

329. 

Abrams,   Chas.    B.,   394. 
Ackers,  J.   L.   P.:  399. 
Adams,  Albion,  361. 
Adams,  Chas.  (K),  432,  434. 
Adams,    Chas.,    422,    427. 
Adams,  Chas.  P.,  325. 
Adams,    Henry,   469. 
Adams,    John,    77,    361. 
Adams,  Jos.  D.,  406 
Adams,  Melvin,  381. 
Adams,   O.   S.,   330. 
Adams,    Samuel,   406. 
Agin,   Thos.,   460. 
Ahern,  Michael,  394. 
Aiken,  Edward  H.,  445. 
Aiken,  Wm.'  A.,  381. 
Akins,  John,   Jr.,  417. 
Albee,   Chas.   H.,  480. 
Albee,    Milton    H.,    460. 
"Albemarle,"       Rebel      ram, 

148. 

Alden,  John  C.,  394. 
Alden,    Wm.    F.,    344. 
Aldrich,    B.    F.,  376. 
Aldrich,    George,    480. 
Aldridge,  Wm.   H.   H.,  344. 
Ale  from  Williamston,  Bottle 

of,   143. 

Allen,  Chas.  H.,  417. 
Allen,   Chas.  W.,  325. 
Allen,  Frank  E.,  417. 
AHen,  Lewis  A.,  381. 
Allen,  M.  T.,  287,  469. 
Allen,  R.  W.,  399. 
Allen,   S.   J.,   446. 
Alexandria,  40,  41,  45,  46,  47, 

51,  69,  87,  286. 
Alley,  E.  R.,  460. 
Alley,  Hon.  J.  B.,  125. 


Alley,  Wm.,  125,  422,  470. 

Ames,  Jacob,  411. 

Ames,  Wm.  S.,  367. 

Amory,  Maj.  C.  B.,  257,  259. 

Amory,  Col.  T.  J.  C.,  91,  140, 
161,  226,  257. 

Ancient  and  Honorable  Ar 
tillery,  24. 

Anderson,  Lt.  Col.,  205. 

Anderson,     C.     E.,    330. 

Anderson,   Daniel   (1st),  377. 

Anderson,  Daniel  (2d),  377. 

Anderson,    D.    W.,    455. 

Anderson,  J.   H.,  330. 

Anderson,   W.   W.,   186,   381. 

Andrew,  Gov.  J.  A.,  8,  19, 
25,  61,  62,  120,  154,  271. 

Andrews,  Geo.,  361. 

Andrews,  H.  K.  W.,  422,  479. 

Andrews,  J.  Albert,  480. 

Andrews,  John   B.,   361. 

Andrews,    Jos.    H.,    361. 

Angier,  H.  A.,  72,  76,  101, 
367,  380. 

Annapolis,  30,  31,  32. 

Annapolis  Junction,  31,  32, 
33. 

Anthony,  Jos.,  357,  382. 

Appleton,   Geo.   C.,  465. 

Archer,  Edwin  W.    417. 

Archer,  Wm.  H.,  417,  475. 

'Ariel,"    Steamer,    29. 

Arlington,  59. 

Arnold,    Alfred    E.,    465. 

Arnold,    Ambrose,    432. 

Arnold,    Chas.    H.,    394. 

Arnold,  F.  T.,  388. 

Arnold,  Jos.,  382. 

Artisans,    287. 

Ash,  Wm.  G.,  335,  394. 

Ashcroft,  Capt.  Jas.  E.,  209. 

Astor  House,  29,  88. 

Atkinson,    Benj.,   485. 

Atkinson,  F.  E.,  441. 

Atkinson,   George,   480. 

Atkinson,  Wm.   D.,  465. 

Atlantic    Monthly,    32. 


At    Sea,    130. 
Atwood,   Hawes,   361. 
Austin,  Francis  H.,  485. 
Austin,  Jos.  A.,  382. 
Averill,  Geo.  H.,  465. 
Ayers,  John  H.,  394. 
Ayers,  Wm.,  382. 

Babcock,  C.  A.,  77,  102,  367. 
Babcock,  E.  B.   (2),  423. 
Babcock,  Francis,  422. 
Babcock,  H.  T.,   186,  423. 
Babcock,  Wm.  T.,  423,  425, 

479. 

Badger,    Stillman,    455. 
Bagley,    Alonzo   J.,   406. 
Bailey,   Alvin   R.,    117,   446, 

453. 

Bailey,  Andrew   J.,  367,  474. 
Bailey,  C.  H.,  368,  370. 
Bailey,  Edwin,  325. 
Bailey,   H.   C.,   395. 
Bailey,  Jas.  A.,  343. 
jBailey,  Walter  C.,   360,  379, 

380. 

(Bailey,   Wm.,   395. 
Baird,  Jas.   H.,  460. 
Baker,   Benj.   F.,   465. 
Baker,  C.  P.,  399. 
Baker,  Darius,  6,  399  (2),  404. 
Baker,  Geo.  H.,  399. 
Baker,  S.  F.,  399. 
Baker,    Washington,    400. 
Baker,  Watson,  400. 
Baker,  Wm.  J.,  377. 
Bake-shop,   Gov't,   37. 
Baldwin,  Wm.  F.,  431. 
Ball,  Elliott  H.,  481. 
Balcom,  George,  421,  423. 
Ball,   Geo.   H.,   352. 
Ball,   Warren  B.,   352. 
Baltimore,  32,  88,  276. 
Baltimore,  Map  of,  436. 
Bancroft,     Geo.     (historian), 

30. 

Bancroft,  Geo.,  411. 
Banks,   Gen.    N.   P.,   52. 


490 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Barbauld,  Mrs.,   18. 

Barker,    Isaac,   Jr.,    361. 

Barker,   Justin   D.,   423. 

Barker,  S.  S.,  330. 

Barker,  Wm.   H.   S.,  406. 

Barnard,  Benj.  F.,  329. 

Barnard,   B.   W.,  441. 

Barnes,    Dennis   A.,   485. 

Barnard,  Geo.  G.,  460. 

Barnard,   Henry,  475. 

Barnard,  J.   G.,   64. 

Barnard,   J.   W.,   388. 

Barnes,  Capt.  Geo.  F.,  272, 
387,  448. 

Barnes,  Geo.  W.,  186,  382. 

Barnes,  Jos.  W.,  423,  424, 
427. 

Barr,  Thos.  A.,  382. 

Barrett,  Jas.,  400. 

Barrett,  John  J.,  417. 

Barri,  M.  V.  B.,  344. 

Barri,   T.   ().,   29,   59,   321. 

Barrows,  Joe  E.,  460. 

Barstow,  E.  F.,  417,  475. 

Bartlett,  Chas.  A.,  470. 

Bartlett,   Chas.   E.,  465. 

Bartlett,  Chas.  W.,  6,  441. 

Bartlett,    Henry   A.,   446. 

Barton,  Alfred,  465. 

Baseball,    196, 

Batchelder,    George,    475. 

Batchelder,    Geo.   H.,   388. 

Batchelder,  Geo.  W.,  330. 

Batchelder's    Creek,    227. 

Bates,  Wm.  C.,  77,  98,  100, 
101,  111,  112,  352. 

Battalion,    Third,    26,    29. 

Battiste,   John   B.,   395. 

Battles,  Kinston,  164;  White 
hall,  170;  Goldsboro,  174; 
Newbern,  204,  Core  Creek, 
226;  Gum  Swamp,  231. 

Baumeister,   John,   441    (2). 

Baxter,    Aug.    G.,   405. 

Baxter,  Capt.  Rodney,  129, 
131. 

Beal,  Jas.  A.,  348. 

Bean,  Frank,  422,  479. 

Bean,  Wm.  S.,  348. 

Beaufort,    132. 

Beauregard,  Gen.,  66,  68,  69, 
94. 

Becket,    Wm.    C.,    388,    450. 


Beckford,    Wm.    F.,    357. 

Beckwith,   R.   S.,   59,  330. 

Beddoe,    Thos.,    417,    368. 

Bee,  Gen.  B.  E.,  74. 

Bee  Story,   148. 

Beers,   R.  E.,   382. 

Belger's    Battery,    141,    143, 

176,  180,  216,  260. 
Bell,  Jos.  J.,  335. 
Benham,  Daniel,  344. 
Bennett,  Asa  A.,  460. 
JBennett,   David  F.,  470. 
Bennett,    Edwin    C.,    361. 
Bennett,   F.  W.,  424,  425. 
JBennett,  Geo.  L.,  460. 
Bent,  Geo.  H.,  455. 
Bent,  Judson  L.,  432. 
Berry,    Chas.,    455. 
Berry,  John  C.,  424. 
Berry,  John  E.,  479. 
Betume,  John,  58. 
Bible  given,   23. 
Bible  reading,  151. 
Bible  study,  105. 
Bibrim,  Jos.,  395. 
Bibrim,  Wm.  F.,  418. 
Bickford,   E.    R.,   339. 
Bidwell,   Jas.   F.,   470. 
Big  Bethel,  32,  55. 
Bingham,    Chas.    G.,    461. 
Binney,  H.  M.,  362. 
Bird,  Geo.  A.,  367. 
Bird,  Warren  A.,  362. 
Bisbee,    Horatio,    Jr.,    344. 
Bishop,  John,  344. 
Bixby,   Hiram,   330. 
Black,  Lewis,  406,  408. 
jBlackington,  Geo.  D.,  461. 
JBlaisdell,  Chas.  H.,  475. 
Blaisdell,  I.  C.,  411. 
Blake,   Chas.  E.,  424. 
jBlake,  Chas.  W.,  455. 
Blanchard,    Aug.    B.,    446. 
Blanchard,  B.  G.,  236,  417. 
Blanchard,   Jas.   H.,   432. 
Blau,    John,    424. 
JBliss,   Chas.   H.,  424,   429. 
! Blood,   Chas.    F.,   466. 
Blood,    Hiram,   335. 
Blount's    Creek,     214,     222, 

265. 

Blunt,  Geo.,  368. 
Bodge,  Amos  P.,   388. 


Bodge,  Jacob  G.,  388. 
Bodge,  Wm.   H.,  450. 
Bohm,   Sergt.,    112. 
Bolles,   Geo.    H.,   465. 
'Bond,  E.  E.,  424. 
iBond,  Edmund  H.,  481. 
jBond,  Frank  H.,  466. 
JBonner,    Chas.    D.,   362. 
Bonner,   John,   377. 
JBonville,    Louis,    485. 
I  Booker,  Geo.  D.,  344. 
Booker,   Sanford,   343. 
Bordreau,   Peter,  481. 
Boston,  17,  89,  129,  246,  273, 

314,   315. 

Boston   Artillery,    29. 
Boston  Journal,  23. 
Boston  Transcript,   26,   27. 
Bosworth,   Franklin,   450. 
Bounties,    122. 
Bounty-jumper,    129,    297. 
Bourdreau,  Eusibee,   424. 
Bowen,   Chas.,   339. 
Bowers,  Chas.,  6,  32,  36,  57, 
i     98,  351. 

JBowers,  Chas.  R.,  411. 
j Bowers,   Wm.,   352. 
Boxes  from  home,  196. 
Boyce,  Jacob  C.,  432. 
Boyd,  John  T.,  11,  22,  62,  73, 

87,  178,  244,  321,  366,  373. 
Boyd,  Jos.,  367. 
Boyd,  Wm.,   368. 
Boyle,   Michael,  377. 
Boynton,  John  W.,  389. 
Boynton,   Wm.    F.,   395. 
Brackett,    Chas.    K.,    382. 
Jfirackett,  Edward,  362. 
jBrackett,  E.  J.,  352. 
Brackett,  Geo.  F.,  367. 
| Brackett,  I.  W.,  395. 
Braden,  Angus,  344. 
j  Bradford,    Chas.    W.,   470. 
I  Bradford,   Gov.   A.   W.,   304. 
j  Bradley,  Jas.  R.,  446. 
Brady,  John  G.,  348. 
Bragdon,  Geo.  W.,  406. 
Bragdon,    Jos.    D.,    398. 
Bragdon,  S.  M.,  344. 
Branch,  Hiram  R.,  335,  395. 
Brastow,  Geo.  O.,  11,  21,  22, 

55,  80,  82,  360. 
Brazier,  Wm.  H.,  193,  418. 


INDEX. 


491 


Breed,  J.  N.,  367. 
Breen,  Walter,  377. 
Brendal,  Stephen,  348. 
Brennan,  Jas.  E.,  446. 
Brennan,   Michael,   377. 
Bresnahan,  Jeremiah,  406. 
Brewer,  Henry  C.,  461. 
Brewer,  Theo.   M.,  424. 
Brewerton,  Maj.  H.,  285. 
Bride,  Josiah  W.,  481. 
Bridge,  Samuel  S.,  466. 
Brigade  Drill,  152. 
Brigade  relations,  140. 
Briggs,   H.   T.,   76,   101,  325. 
Briggs,    Jefferson    L.,    485. 
Brigham,  Ad.   M.,  461. 
Brigham,    Alfred    A.,    481. 
Brigham,  Chas.,  6,  227,  431. 
Brigham,   Salem   T.,   470. 
Brigham,  W.  F.,  480,  481. 
Brintnall,  S.  R.,  382. 
Bromley,    Lyman   P.,    339. 
Bromley,  O.  B.,  340. 
Brooks,  L.  F.,  343. 
Brooks,    Webster,    249,    399, 

400,  469. 

Brown,  Albert  F.,  368. 
Brown,   Andrew   K.,   450. 
Brown,  Benj.  K.,  324. 
Brown,  Capt.  D.  L.,  272,  459. 
Brown,  Edward  A.,  424    (2), 

461. 

Brown,  Frank  E.,  481. 
Brown,  Geo.  A.,  358. 
Brown,  Geo.  B.,  485. 
Brown,  Geo.  F.,  461. 
Brown,  Mayor  G.  W.,  285. 
Brown,  Hiram,  406. 
Brown,  John,  352,  354. 
Brown,  John,   377. 
Brown,  John,  460. 
Brown,  John  H.,  368. 
Brown,   John  S.,  470. 
Brown,  Josiah,  410. 
Brown,  Robert  K.,  485. 
Brown,  Wm.  A.,  352. 
Brown,  Wm.   P.,  362. 
Brown,  W.  S.,  368. 
Bruce,  C.  A.,  382. 
Bruce,  Geo.  W.,  485. 
Bruce,  Samuel  C.,  466. 
Bruce,  W.   G.,  422. 
Bruce,  Willard  G.,  480. 


Bryan,  Capt.,  28. 
Bryant,  John,  418. 
Bryant,  Jos.  A.,  481. 
Buckingham,  L.  W.,  362. 
Buckman,    Bowen,   411. 
Buckman,  Wm.  T.,  446. 
Buffaloes,  228. 
Buffum,  F.  F.,  466. 
Bulfinch,  Edward,  411. 
Bulfinch,  Henry,    411. 
Bulger,  Jas.,  358. 
JBullard,  Chas.  D.,  455. 
JBullard,  E.  D.,  470. 
JBullard,  Jas.  M.,  424. 


Butler,   Gen.   B.   F.,  30,    31, 

40,  45,  296. 
Butler,  Henry,   173. 
Butterfield,  Wm.   G.,  485. 
Butters,  Andrew,  406. 
Butters,   Frank  V.,   368. 
Butters,  Geo.  S.,  470. 
jButterworth,    A.    D.,    461. 
jButterworth,    L.    N.,    461. 
Buttrick,   Francis,   353. 
Buttrick,   Geo.,   352. 
|  Buttrick,   H.    H.   351. 
Buttrick,    Maj.    John,    20. 
Butts,  Jos.  W.,  368. 


Butts,  Wm.  D.,  418. 


Bullard,  Wm.  H.,  461. 

Bull    Run,  64;  E.    F.  Wyer's  i Buxton,   Geo.   F.,  325,   328. 

Story  of,  79;  Col.   Porter's   Buxton,  Geo.  W.,  389. 

Report,  82;  Map,  83;  Lieut.   Buxton,  M.  F.,  411. 

H.   P.   Williams    describes,  j  Buxton,   Simon   P.,   450. 

85;   Blackburn's  Ford,   66.   Buxton,   Thos.   W.,   388. 
Bull   Run   Monument,    78. 
Bull  Run  prisoners,  93;  leave  Cable,    Geo.    W.,    111. 

Richmond,  97;  Bible  study,  Cadogan,  Daniel,  377. 

105;  Bone  ornaments,  105;  !C«sar's  Commentaries,   152. 

Clothing   distributed,    110;  Calef,  H.  S.,  446. 

Prayer  for  Jeff.  Davis,  112.   Calif,  Wm.,  442. 
Bull  Run,  Second,  73.  Call,  John  M.,  416. 

Bunton,  Wm.  H.,  466.  jCallahan,  Jas.  F.,  442. 

jBurbank,  Charles,  470.  Cameron,  Sec.  Simon,  56,  57, 

JBurbank,  E.   C.,  405.  5s. 

Burbank,  Wm.  H.,  344,  374,  Camp  Andrew,  51;  Massachu- 

406.  setts,     54,  70,    S7;  Lander, 

jBurbeck,   Jos.    X.,   38S,   449.        123;     Peirson,     188,     189; 


Burckes,  T.  J.,  368. 
iBurditt,  Geo.  A.,  330. 
Burditt,  Jas.  A.,  329. 
Burg,  Wm.  R.,  358. 
Burgess,  John  F.,  425. 


Meigs,    274. 
•Camp-scene,  185. 
:Cannonfrom   Bull   Run,    193. 
|  Cape  Cod   boys'  letters,   125, 

152,   155,   164,   170,   174. 
Burgwyn,  Col.  H.   K.,  160.       Cape  Codders,  273. 

Cape    Hatteras,    132. 
Caps  presented,   198. 
Carey,  Thos.,  377. 
Carleton,  Albert,  388. 
Carney,    Chas.    J.,    395,    454. 


Burnham,   Chas.,  340. 
! Burns,  John,  411. 
Burns,  Patrick,  432. 
'Burns,  Wm.,  441. 
JBurnside,  Gen.  A.  E.,  << 
Burroughs,  Geo.  W.,  186,  380,   Carpenter,   G.    O.,   58. 

382,  444,  445.  Carr,  Chas.  E.,  389,  450. 

Burrows,  Wm.  A.,  325.  ,Carr,   John   C.,   368,   417. 

Burton,  Jacob,  325.  ^arr,  John  P.,  344. 

Bushby,  Jos.,  Jr.,  389.  Carr,  Royal  S.  344. 

Buswell,  Geo.  P.,  340.  Carr,  Thomas,  481. 

Buswell,  Nancy,  14,    15,    16,   Carr,  Wm.  M.,  362. 

369.  Carroll,  C.  E.,  411. 

Butler,  Alonzo,  382.  Carroll,  Jerome,  411. 


492 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Carroll,   John,   377. 
Carroll,  Wm.,  377. 
Carsons,  E.  C.,  432. 
Carsons,  F.  D.,  432. 
Carter,  Chas.  W.,  470. 
Carter,    Francis   G.,    460. 
Carter,  Frank,  466. 
Carter,  Henry  F.,  446. 
Carter,   Jas.   W.,   353. 
Carter,  John  H.,  431. 
Carton,   Richard,  470. 
Caryl,    Henry,   475. 
Cashin,  John,  382. 
Cassebourne,  C.  W.,  77,  348. 
Cassidy,  Philip,  377. 
Cassidy,  Philip  E.,  395,  454. 
Caswell,  Albert,  362. 
Caswell,  Jacob  A.,  475. 
Caswell,  Jos.  A.,  340. 
Cate,  Sam'l  A.   (not  H),  76, 

101,   325. 
Cate,  T.  J.,  37. 
Cavalry    quarters,    43. 
Cavanaugh,  James,  481. 
Centreville,   66,   68,   69,   73. 
Chadbourn,  Humphrey,  287, 

470. 

Chamberlain,  E.  C.,  470. 
Chamberlain,   Geo.   S.,  400. 
Chamberlain,  J.  H.,  335,  395. 
Chamberlain,  R.  T.,  152,  382. 
Chambers,  John  G.,    17,   62, 

172,  321,  343. 
Champney,     Edwin     G.,     6, 

411,  469. 

Champney,  E.  G.,  writes,  208. 
Chandler,   S.   A.,   340. 
Chandler,  S.  E.,  77,  102,  368. 
Chappie,  Wm.   D.,  258. 
Charging  up  steep    hill,    39. 
Charlestown,  22,  23. 
Charlestown  Companies,  273, 

314. 

Charlestown  receives,  246. 
Chase,  Benj.,  425. 
Chase,  Chas.  L.,  335. 
Chase,  Chas.  W.,  358. 
Chase,  Edward  K.,  377. 
Chase,  Edwin,  400. 
Chase,  Lawrence,  400. 
Chase,  Loring  A.,  465. 
Chase,   Lyman   H.,  432. 
Chase,   Sec.   S.   P.,   56,   57. 


Cheever,   Jos.    W.,   466. 
Chell,    Geo.,    335,    393,   454. 
Cheney,  Almon  F.,  470. 
Cheney,    Benj.    F.,    475. 
Cheney,   D.   S.,   344. 
Cheslyn,   R.   W.,   335. 
Chickering,   F.    H.,   400. 
Childs,  Geo.  T.,  77,  102,  113, 

368. 

Chipman,  C.   G.,  325. 
Chipman,    Sands    K.,    442. 
Chisley,  Wm.,  475. 
Christmas,    190. 
Christmas    celebration,    113. 
Churchill,   Asath   K.,   485. 
Churchill,  Ezra  R.,  442. 
Churchill,  Jas.   K.,  368,  370, 

474. 

City  Point,   290. 
;Clanin,  Jas.  F.,  425. 
Clapp,   Ernest   A.,   6,   466. 
Clapp,  M.  O.,  344. 
Clapp,  Wm.   M.,  353. 
Claridge,  Albert  S.,  466. 
Claridge,    Frederick,   418. 
Clark,   Chas.   D.,  466. 
Clark,  Chas.  W.,  461. 
Clark,    E.    A.,    358. 
Clark,  E.  J.,  367,  374. 
Clark,   G.  Alonzo,  481. 
Clark,    Geo.    E.,   475. 
Clark,   Gorham  B.,   406. 
Idark,   John   F.,    324. 
iClark,    John    W.,    335. 
Clark,  Jos.  H.,  368. 
Clark,   Jos.    H.,   2d,   368. 
iClark,  Jos.  J.,   377. 
|  Clark,  Moses,  486. 
'Clark,  R.  R.,  353. 
! Clark,   Stephen  M.,   76,   335. 
Clark,  Sylvester,  358. 
Clausen,  John,  382. 
Clement,  Jas.  H.,  486. 
demons,  Wm.  H.,  325. 
Clerke,   Chas.   S.,   6,  442. 
Clough,   John   B.,   484. 
jClough,  Wm.,  395. 
Cobb,   Chas.   H.,  466. 
Cobb,    Francis   E.,   486. 
Cobb,  Fred  R.,  382. 
Cobleigh,   C.   C.,   335. 
Coburn,   Cyrus  E.,  481. 
Cochrane,  Sir  Alex.,  292. 


Cochrane,  E.  W.,  446. 
Coffin,    Eben    M.,    288,    470, 

471. 

Coffin,   James,   486. 
Coffin,   Capt.   John   N.,   272, 

444. 
Colbert,    Lawrence    E.,    418, 

475. 

Colburn,  Chas.    F.,    335,455. 
Colby,   Chas.,   389. 
Colby,  John,  Jr.,  340. 
Cole,  Albert  G.,  475. 
Colegate,   Wm.   C.   C.,   411. 
Coleman,   I.    N.,   400. 
Coleman,    L.   E.,   348. 
Coleman,  Perry,  343. 
Coleman,    Wm.,    152,   395. 
Coles,   Thos.   J.,   340. 
Colgate,   Wm.  A.,  410. 
Collins,    Daniel,   395. 
Collins,   Enos,   340. 
Collins,  H.  S.,  77,  340. 
Colored   Church,   202. 
Colson,   Chas.  A.,   418,    476. 
Colton,   D.   J.,  442. 
Comey,  Albert  B.,  6,  399,  400. 
Conant,    Harry   C.,   461. 
I  Concord,    19. 
jConcord    Artillery,    19. 
Coney,  Geo.  A.,  486. 
Coney,   J.   S.,   330. 
Conlin,   Peter,   395. 
Conn,  Lieut.   Chas.   K.,  312. 
Conn,  Geo.,  288. 
Conn,  Henry,  418. 
Conner,   Thos.,   336. 
Connolly,  Hugh,  348. 
Considine,   John,  400. 
"Constitution,"   Frigate,   30. 
Conundrums,    163. 
Converse,  Capt.  Chas.  S.,  272, 

307,  308,  409,  468. 
Converse,   Chas.  W.,  288. 
Converse,  Cyrus,  486. 
"  Convoy,"   244,   245. 
Conway,   Thos.  A.,  377. 
Conway,   Timothy,   442. 
Cook,  Aldrich,  461. 
Cook,    Capt.    Asa    M.,    26. 
Cook,   Chas.   E.,   465. 
Cook,  Edwin  H.,  470. 
Cook,    Herbert   E.,    470. 
Cook,  Jacob  B.,  368. 


INDEX. 


Cook,  John,  348. 

Crowley,  F.  E.,  431. 

Cook,  John  O.,  486. 

Crowley,   Wm.,   433. 

Cook,  Jonathan,  Jr.,  330. 

Cub  Run,   70. 

Cook,   Phineas   N.,   470. 

Cub  Run  Bridge,  75,  82,  86. 

Cook,  Wm.  P.,  340. 

Cummings,    Mr.,   248. 

Cooper 

Street   Armory,    254. 

Cummings,   Aug.  F.,   461. 

Cootey, 

Capt.  Philip  J.,  272, 

Cummings,  Everett,  470. 

464. 

Cummings,   Francis,   411. 

Copeland,  Chas.,  58. 

Cummings,   L.   W.,  476. 

Copps,  H.  W.,  335. 

Cummings,  Wm.  F.,  486. 

Corcoran,   Col.,   34. 

Cummings,    Wm.    H.,   411. 

Core   Creek,   226. 

Cunningham,  Chas.  C.,  461. 

Corlew, 

Wm.  R.,  361. 

Cunningham,   Jas.,   382. 

Cormick 

,  Peter,  470. 

Cunningham,    Levi    O.,    422, 

Cormick 

,   Peter,  Jr.,   353. 

478. 

Cornish, 

E.  D.,  465. 

Curran,   Timothy,   446. 

Corser,  Geo.  A.,  426. 

Currell,  E.  G.,  406. 

Cottle,  Albert,  476. 

Currell,   E.   G.,  Jr.,  406. 

Cottle,  Edmund  C.,  411,  469. 

Currier,     Capt.     Chas.,     248, 

Cotton, 

Eli  N.,  484. 

403,    404. 

Coughlin,  Daniel,  455. 

Currier,  C.  Chas.,  Q.  M.,438. 

Courtney,   D.  J.,  348. 

Currier,    Sidney,    344. 

Cowdin, 

Col.   Robt.,   17. 

Curtin,   Andrew,   406. 

Cox,  Lucian  A.,  461. 

Curtin,   Francis,  406. 

Coyle,  Peter,  377. 

Curtis,   F.   J.,   344. 

Crabtree,  Geo.  Evans,  225. 

Curtis,  Jas.  W.,  470. 

Cracklin 

,   John   F.,   442. 

Curtis,  John  D.,  433. 

Crafts,   Jos.,  431. 

Curtis,   Wm.   B.,   389. 

Cragin, 

Geo.   N.,  440. 

Cushing,    Frederic,   382. 

Craibe, 

Chas.   I.,  440. 

Cushing,    H.    H.    D.,    344. 

Craig,  Thos.  F.,  336. 

Cushing,  Pyam,    Jr.,    344. 

Crane,  Albert  J.,  325. 

Cushing,    Robert,    466. 

Crawford,   Jos.   A.,   394. 

Cushing,   Lieut.   W.    B.,   149. 

Crocker, 

Josiah  T.,  466. 

Cutter,  Henry  C.,  475. 

Crockett,    Chas.    L.,   411. 

Cutter,   Jas.    R.,   442. 

Crook,    Chas.,   442. 

Cutter,  Stephen  H.,  470. 

Crooker 

Wm/  J.,    343. 

Cutter,  Wm.   B.,  476. 

Croghan 

,    John,    377. 

Crosby, 

Ariel,  426,  479. 

Da  Costa,   B.   F.,   60,  322. 

Crosby, 

Daniel  G.,  486. 

Daley,  John,  433. 

Crosby, 

Elkanah,  362. 

Dallon,   Jeremiah,   353. 

Crosby, 

Geo.  L.,  459. 

Dallon,   Michael,   377. 

Crosby, 

George  O.,  481. 

Damon,  Geo.  A.,  460. 

Crosby, 

Jas.   F.,  400. 

Dane,  Wm.  H.,  344. 

Crosby, 

Lyman  D.,  325. 

Danforth,  D.  W.,  411. 

Cross,  Eben  F.,  455. 

Danforth,  H.  F.,  12,  356. 

Cross,  Geo.  W.,  336. 

Danforth,  Jos.  C.,  349. 

Cross,  John,  418. 

Danforth,  Noble,  466. 

Crowell, 

Fred,  440. 

Dane,  Wm.  H.,  77,  344. 

Crowell, 

Geo.  M.,  325. 

Daniels,  F.  D.,  382. 

Crown, 

Wm.   S.,   446. 

Daniels,    G.   W.,   381. 

Crowninshield,    Jacob,    476. 

Daniels,    Granville    W.,    444. 

Crowley 

,   Daniel,  349. 

Daniels,  John  B.,  325. 

Daniels,    Jos.,    417. 

Daniels,   Robert  S.,  Jr.,  387. 

Darling,   George,   481. 
IDarling,   Seth   W.,   481. 
JDardiss,    Thos.,    433. 

Darling,   Theodore,   406. 
! Davis,  Benj.,  368. 

Davis,    Chas.    E.,    259,    261, 

381. 
| Davis,   Chas.   L.,   336. 

Davis,  Chas.  W.,  325. 

Davis,    Daniel    W.,    23,    272, 

367,  416,   474. 
!  Davis,   E.    K.,   369. 
j Davis,  Geo.  W.,  336. 

Davis,  Geo.  W.  G.,  336. 

Davis,    Henry,   470. 
| Davis,  Capt.  Isaac,  20. 

Davis,    James,    446. 

Davis,   Jeff,   94;   Prayer    for, 
112;    128. 

Davis,  John,     476. 

Davis,  John  B.,  411. 

Davis,  John  E.,  362. 

Davis,  Jos.,  344. 

Davis,   M.   H.,   377. 

Davis,   M.   M.,  369. 

Davis,  O.  R.,  369. 

Davis,  Samuel,  406. 

Davis,   S.  Aug.,   400. 

Davis,  S.  H.,  540. 
j  Davis,  Wm.  L.,  344. 

Davis,   Wm.   W.,   367,   418. 

Davenport,    Chas.    H.,   446. 

Davenport,   David,   325. 

Davidson,   E.  A.,  461. 

Davidson,   Francis  J.,  481. 

Davidson,    Henry,    Jr.,   325. 

Dawson,    Frank,    340. 

Dean,  Geo.  J.,  338. 

Dean,   Henry  U.,  470. 

Dean,  Henry  W.,  411. 

Dean,  John,  336,  442. 

Dean,  Jos.   G.,  353. 

Dearborn,     Daniel    H.,     369, 
418. 

Dearborn,   Geo.    W.,  411. 

Dearborn,    Leander,   466. 

Dearing,  Geo.  A.,  398. 

Dede,  Herman,  345. 

Deegan,  Philip,  442. 

Deep   Gully,   238,   240,   264. 

Deering,  E.   M.,  353. 


494 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Delaney,   Daniel,   395. 
Delano,  F.  E.,  395. 
Dempsey,  John  H.,  377. 
Denham,  D.  A.,  406. 
Dennett,   Nathaniel,   381. 
Dennis,  John,  446. 
Dennison,   Julius  W.,  466. 


Downing,     Washington,     Jr., 

476. 

Downs,  Moses,  Jr.,  484. 
Dowst,   Joshua  W.,    325. 
Doyle,  H.  N.,  417. 
Doyle,  M.  B.,  395. 
Doyle,  Thos.,  353. 


Denny,  D.  Waldo,  206,  243.  Doyle,  Wm.,  395. 
Denny,  E.  W.,  380.  JDoyle,   Wm.   J.,    336. 

Departure,   25,    128,   274.        JDoxology  sung,   148. 
Derby,  Amos  L.,  433.  Draft-riot,  253. 

Derby,  Jas.,  Jr.,  351,  354.       Drake,  Alvin,  Jr.,  330. 
Deserters  at  Wenham,   129.     Draper,  Geo.  L.,  446. 


Desmond,  Peter,   377. 

"  De  Soto  "   Steamer,   29,  32. 


Draper,  Jas.  D.,  329. 
Draper,   Samuel,  476. 


Devens,  Maj.    Chas.,    26,  29.  Drew,  B.   S.,  23,  369. 
Devereaux,   G.   N.,   369.  Drew,  Capt.  Caleb,  198,  366, 

416. 

Drink  of  whiskey,  195. 
i Driver,  Geo.   N.,  461. 

Drown,  Albion  H.,  6,  455. 
j  Drown,  Wm.   P.,   326. 

Drumey,  John,  461. 

Duckrell,  Wm.  J.,  345. 
I  Dudley,  Jos.   V.,  466. 

Dugan,   Mrs.   L.  A.,  258. 

Dugan,   Michael,  461. 

Dumas,  Peter,  426. 

Dunbar,  John,  378. 

Dunn,   James,   432,   446. 


Devine,  J.   B.,  377. 
Devlin,   Thos.,   377. 
Dexter,  Geo.  A.,  433 
Dickens,   J.   W.,    102,    112. 
Dickey,   Neal  S.,   336. 
Dickson,    Wm.    E.,  382,  395, 

444. 

Dill,  Jabez  P.,  445. 
Dillaway,  J.  H.,  382. 
Dillon,  Jas.  W.,  375. 
Dispeau,  Jas.   F.,  426. 
Ditson  &  Co.,  Oliver,    18. 
Diversions,    199. 
Dix,  Gen.  J.  A.,  245. 
Dix,  Jos.  O.,  330. 
Dodge,  C.  S.,  349. 
Dodge,  Geo.  S.,  340. 
Dodge,  John  C.,  389. 
Dodge,   John  S.,   349. 
Dodge,  O.  J.,  340. 
Doherty,  Peter,  442. 
Dolliver,   S.   R.,  410,  468. 
Dominick,    Jos.,    325. 
Donallen,  Dennison,  377. 
Donally,  Thos.,  461. 
Donegan,   Jeremiah,   377. 
Donegan,    Timothy,    377. 
Donohoe,   Michael,   377. 
Dooley,  Jas.  A.,  455. 
Dover  Cross  Roads,  227. 
Dow,  Albert  F.,  77,  345. 
Dow,  Geo.  W.,  77,  101,  358. 
Dow,  Jas.  A.,  369. 
Dowds,   John,   377. 
Dowire,  Andrew,  433. 


iDurant,   L.   S.,   450. 
|Duren,  Geo.  W.,  470. 

Durfee,  E.  B.,  449. 

Durgin,   John,   454. 

Durgin,  John  J.,  395. 

Duryea's    Zouaves,    285. 

Dusseault,    Adolphus,    382. 

Dwelley,  L.  B.  S.,  440. 

Dwight,  Jos.  F.,  336,  394. 

Dwyer,  Thos.,  406. 

Dyer,  Edward  F.,  481. 

Eager,  Frank  R.,  481. 
Eames,  John  H.,  345. 
Earley,  Patrick,  378. 
Early,  Jubal,  283,  311. 
Eaton,  Alpheus,  358. 
Eaton,  Alvin  A.,  330. 
Eaton,  Geo.  B.,  475. 
Eaton,    Marshall,   470. 
Eaton,  Wm.  B.,  362. 
Edgerly,   L.   W.,   418. 
Edmands,    Dexter  A.,   476. 


lEdmiston,  Mr.,  112. 
Edwards,    Geo.   W.,    339. 
j Edwards,  N.  M.,  340. 
Edwards,   J.    L.,   358. 
Edwards,   Wesley,   486. 
Eldridge,  Ebenezer,  400. 
Eldridge,   Lewis  Y.,   450. 
Eldredge,   Thos.  (not  Wm.), 

R.,  172,  186,  400. 
Eliot,  Pres.  C.  W.,   120. 
|  Elizabeth   City,    199,    201. 
^Elliott,  Wm.,  382. 

Elliott,    Winthrop    F.,    486. 
jEllis,  F.   N.,  400. 
lEllis,  George,  426. 

Ellis,  Geo.  A.,  400. 
i  Ellis,  Jas.  A.,  432. 
',  Ellis,  Jas.  K.,  470. 

Ellis,  Jas.  W.,  446. 
lEllis,  W.  H.,  400. 
'Ellison,  Horace,  340. 

Ellsworth,  Col.  E.  E.,  41,  45, 
52. 

Elwell,  H.  W.,  461. 
!Ely,  Hon.  Afred,  77,    93,  94, 
95. 

Emerson,  Albert  O.,  349. 

Emerson,  Edward  H.,  340. 

Emerson,  Edwin  R.,  481. 

Emerson,   H.   B.,  418. 

|Emerson,  Thos.,  58. 

[Emerson,  Wm.   B.,  345. 

'Emery  E.  T.  C.,  362. 

Emmott,   James,   383. 

: Ernest,  Anet,  442. 

"Escort,"  Steamer,  220. 

Esler,  Geo.  H.',  395,  455. 

Estes,  John  G.,  358. 

iEstes,  J.  H.,  324. 

Estes,  Robert  G.,  450. 

JEustis,  H.  E.,  362. 

lEustis,   H.  W.,  41,  330. 

'Eustis,  Jas.,  68. 

Eustis,  Joe,  76. 

'Eustis,  Jos.  S.,  330. 

JEustis,    Wm.    T.,    117,    238, 
250,  267,  361,  373. 

|Evans,    King   S.,    395. 

Evans,  Orin  R.,  389. 

Evans,  Wm.  D.,  466. 

Everett,  Edward,  120. 

Everett,  Edward  F.,  416. 

Everett,   Horace   S.,   418. 


INDEX. 


495 


Everett,  Walter,  23,  366,  416. 
Everett's  poem,  H.  S.,  219. 
Ewer,  Geo.  F.,  466. 
Ewing,   R.   T.,   395. 
Exchange,  A  word  upon,  108. 

Fairbanks,  Alonzo  P.,  461. 
Fairbanks,    J.    M.,    330. 
Fairbanks,   Levi,   400. 
Fairbanks,    Rev.    Mr.,    22. 
Fairfax  Seminary,    53. 
Fales,   Lowell  E.,  336. 
Falls  Church,   54. 
Falls  to  his  death,   130. 
Faneuil    Hall,    19,    20,    23. 
Farley,    Thos.,    406. 
Farmer,    Henry,    353. 
Farmer's    Hotel,    224. 
Farmiloe,  Edwin,  394. 
Farnham,  A.   X.,  389. 
Farnham,   Geo.  A.,  450. 
Farnsworth,  L,  H.,  130,  151, 

152,  426,  478. 
Farrar,    L.    B.,   353. 
Farrell,    Wm.,    77,    358. 
Fast  Day,  278. 
Faunce,  Wm.  H.,  466. 
Fay,   Frederick,   481. 
Fellow,  Henry  F.,  461. 
Ferguson,  David,  349. 
Ferguson,  Harvey  C.,  466. 
Ferguson,   S.   A.,   358. 
Ferguson,    T.    T.,    410,    412, 

439,   469. 

Fernald,   Horace,  442. 
Ferrin,   Myron  J.,   6,  485. 
Fett,  Jacob,  406. 
Field,  Fred.  K.  348. 
Field,  Freeman,  323. 
Fields,  Jos.  W.,  484. 
Fifth  R.   I.   Volunteers,   220. 
Finley,  John  W.,  450. 
Finney,    Chas.   E.,   400. 
Finney,  E.  F.,  398. 
Fire  Zouaves,  45,  53,  64,  81, 

83,  86. 

Fish,  Sumner,  77,  369. 
Fisher,  Chas.  R.,  433. 
Fisher,  Geo.  S.,  400. 
Fisher,  Lyman,  481. 
Fiske,  Wilbur  A.,  466. 
Fiske,  Win.  F.,  431. 
Fitzgerald,   John,   442,   461. 


Fitzpatrick,    Daniel,    349. 
Fitzpatrick,   F.   F.,   353. 
Fitzpatrick,   T.   B.,   336. 
Flagg,  Chas.,  411. 
Flagg,  Geo.  A.,  411,  469. 
Flagg,  Jas.  H.,  381. 
Flagless  patriots,  112. 
Flag-pole  raised,  60. 
Flag  presented,    49. 
| Flag-raising,  219,  250. 
JFlag-staff,  New,    203. 
'Flags,  Return  of,  315. 
Flanagin,  M.  J.,  289,  476. 
Flanders,    Chas.   E.,   446. 
j Flanders,  Edward  P.,  486. 
JFlanders,   R.   M.,  485. 
Fletcher,  A.  W.,  49. 
Fletcher,  Bernard,  412. 
'Fletcher,  C.   X.,  330. 
[Fletcher,  J.   M.,  345. 
Fletcher,   S.   W.,   345. 
"  Flora   Temple,"   286,   302. 
Floyd,  D.  ().,  369. 
Flynn,  Jeremiah,   426. 
Flynn,   John,   378. 
Flynn,  John  J.,  442. 
Fogg,  George,  426. 
'Fogg,  Geo.  F.,  340. 
iFoley,   Michael,   37S. 
Foley,   Patrick   W.,   349. 
Folger,  John  H.,  470. 
Foraging,   147,   184. 
Ford,   H.   W.,  349. 
Ford,  John  F.,  326. 
Ford,  Wm.  E.,  486. 
Forest,    Moses,    349. 
Fort    Anderson,    264. 
Fort   Carroll,   285. 
Fort  Clarke,  201,  208. 
JFort  Ellsworth,  52,  60,  62,  64, 
iFort  Federal   Hill,   285,   294. 

296,  313. 

;Fort  Hatteras,  208. 
Fort  McHenry,  279,  281,  282, 
i     284,  288,  292,  298. 
Fort  Marshall,  285,  300,  301. 
Fort   Totten,    135,    197,    198, 

203. 

Fortress  Monroe,   30,   245. 
Forts  about  Washington,  269. 
Fortifying,  193,  196. 
Forty-fourth      Massachusetts 

goes  Home,  241. 


JFoss,  Chas.  H.,  412. 
JFoss,  Granville  C.,  466. 
Foss,  Jos.,  400. 
Foster,    Chas.,    323,    433. 
I  Foster,   Davis,   330. 
j  Foster,  Edward,  76,  101,  336. 
I  Foster,   Geo.   B.,   340. 
:Foster,  Gen.  J.  G.,  135,  146, 

159,    160,    173,    177,    186, 

192,    193,    195,    211,    221; 

Birthday,    237;    Reception, 

251;  Fort  Rowan,  135,  264. 
Foster,    John    M.,    375,    389. 
Foster,  Wm.  B.,  455. 
Fowler,    Hervey   P.,    418. 
Fowler,  S.  D.,  345. 
Fowler,  S.  W.,  340. 
Fowler,  Walter  C.,  465. 
Fox,   Edward,   336. 
Fox,   Edward  G.,   393,  454. 
"  Fragment,"    103. 
Frail,  H.  M.,  400. 
Franklin,  Asa  M.,  461. 
Franklin,   Benj.   A.,   Jr.,  470. 
Franklin,    Maj.    Jones,    238, 

257. 
Franklin,   Gen.  Wm.   B.,   63, 

64,  70,  71,  81. 
Freeman,  Chas.  H.,  446. 
Freeman,    S.    Frank,    446. 
French,  Jairus,  442. 
French,  Samuel  A.,  476. 
French,  Samuel  R.,  412,  469. 
French,  Wm.  C.,  336. 
Frietchie,   Barbara,   311. 
Frizzell,   James,  442. 
Frost,  James,  340. 
Frost,  Wm.  S.,  421,  478. 
Frothingham,  F.  E.,  369. 
Frothingham,  J.   B.,  369. 
Fry,  Gen.  Jas.  B.,  64,  271. 
Frye,    Timothy,    470. 
Fuller,  Chas.  E.,  41,  307,  309, 

412,   468. 

Fuller,  Geo.  H.,  326. 
Fuller,  M.  Aug.,  439. 
Furfey,  Patrick,  447. 

Gabriel,  Chas.,  455. 
Gabriel,  Wm.  E.,  336,  395. 
'Gadd,  Geo.   W.,  476. 
Gage,  Geo.  L.,  450. 
.Gage,   Moses  H.,   455. 


496 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Gagen,   Chas.,   378. 
Gahn,   Jos.,   455. 
Gaitley,  Patrick,  349. 
Galeucia,  Perley,  389. 
Galeucia,  S.  B.,  389,  450. 
Gallagher,  Dr.,  265. 
Gallagher,   John,   378. 
Gammons,    Chas.    A.,    336. 
Gardner,  Abel,  326. 
Gardner,    Chas.,    326. 
Gardner,    George,   455. 
Garland,  B.  F.,  362. 
Garner,  Jas.,  406. 
Garrity,  Patrick,  433. 
Garty,   James,   353. 
Gary,  Edwin  F.,  418. 
Gately,  John,  442. 
Gates,  Ephraim,  Jr.,  460. 
Gates,  Jerome  S.,  461. 
Gates,  Lyman,  481. 
Gay,  Edwin  W.,  466. 
Gay,  John  P.,  418. 
Gee,    Nathaniel,   406. 
Gibbs,   Wm.,   426. 
Gibson,  Wm.  T.,  362. 
Gifford,  Albert   D.,  336. 
Gilbert,  Jas.,  389. 
Gilbert,  John  H.,  455. 
Gile,   Phinando   N.,   349. 
Giles,   Chas.   H.,   326. 
Giles,  J.  Frank,  362. 
Giles,  Jos.  J.,  6,  63,  362. 
Gilford,  Wm.  F.,  358. 
Gillespie,  John  E.,  433. 
Gilman,   Granville,   476. 
Gilman,  John  T.,  326. 
Gilmor,  Harry  W.,  283,  285. 
Gilmore,  John  S.,  486. 
Gilmore's  Band,  89. 
Gilson,  Henry  E.,  259,  383  (3) 
Gilson,    Wm.,    406. 
Ginn,  Jas.  F.,  345,  405. 
Girouard,  J.   B.,  425,  426. 
Gleason,  Albert,  Jr.,  412. 
Gleason,  Alfred  D.,  460. 
Gleason,   D.   W.,  433. 
Glidden,  A.  F.,  383. 
Glidden,   Jos.    H.,   326. 
Glynn,  Chas.  F.,  450. 
Glynn,  Thos.,  362,  410. 
Goff,  Wm.   C.,  464. 
Going  home,  243. 
Goldsboro,    159,   260,   264. 


Goldsboro    Expedition,    157 

Map,  158. 

Goldsmith,  Horace,  476. 
;Goode,   Thomas,   481. 
JGoodrich,  Geo.  H.,  389. 
Goodrich,   H.    D.,   447. 
Goodwin,    Benj.,    442. 
| Goodwin,  Chas.  A.,  442. 
Goodwin,  Jas.  W.,  353. 
; Goodwin,  Walter  H.,  447. 
Gordon,   Chas.   H.,    193,  418, 
Gorham,    C.    E.,    349. 
Goss,  Jas.   F.,  418. 
iGossom,  E.   D.,  336,  455. 
Gott,   Lemuel,  291,  481. 
Gould,   A.   H.,   340. 
Gould,  R.  D.,  340. 
Gould,  Thos.,  406. 
| Gould,  Wm.  A.,  465. 
JGowell,  John  M.,  400. 
JGowen,  John,  476. 
(Grace,  Wm.  L.,  455. 
Graham,   Geo.   S.,  450. 
iGrammer,   W.   T.,   229,   245, 

248,    268,    288,    291,    302, 

409,   438. 

Grandy,   H.  E.,  362. 
Grant,   General,   269,   290. 
[Grant,  Chas.  E.,  466. 
[Grant,   Geo.   W.,  455. 
jGrant,  John,  442. 
! Grant,  M.  C.,  336. 
Grant,  Samuel,  433. 
iGraves,  John,  Jr.,  389. 
| Gray,  A.  W.,  406. 
iGray,  Col.  C.  O.,  killed,  169 
Gray,    E.    H.,    400. 
Gray,  Wm.  B.,  353. 
Great  Review,  200. 
Green,    Daniel    L.,   455. 
Green,  Jas.  F.,  375. 
(Green,  Thos.   B.,  395. 
|Greene,    Geo.    H.,   329. 
iGreene,  J.  D.,  10,  32,  38,  55; 

59,  62,   320. 
jGreene,  John  E.,  470. 
{Greene,   Michael,  376. 
(Greenleaf,  J.  W.,  400. 
[Greenleaf,  M.  N.,  341. 
Greensboro,  307. 
Greenwood,   M.  F.,  383. 
Greenwood,  M.  M.,  400. 
Gregory,    F.    M.,   352. 


Grenache,  Claude,   130,   151, 

426. 

Griffin,  Frank,  442. 
Griffin,  Martin,  378. 
Griffin's   Battery,   83. 
Griggs,   J.   H.,   76,    101,   331. 
Grist,  Jas.   R.,   139. 
Grist  place,  265. 
Groton    (Conn.),    89. 
Grout,   Lieut.   J.   W.,   79. 

rover,  Geo.  H.,  486. 
Grover,  Jas.,  Jr.,  358. 
Grover,  Wm.  W.,  486. 
Guarding  the  polls,  303. 
Guild,  Gov.  C.  H.,  258. 
Guilford,   E.   H.,   357. 
Gum    Swamp,    231;    passage 

through,    234,    235,   262. 

uns  distributed,   136. 
Gurowski,  Adam,  36. 
Gurry,  John,  442. 
JGushee,  F.  A.,  341. 
Gustin,   Lorenzo,  466. 
Gwinn,  Chas.  H.,  326. 

Hackett,  Harrison,  358. 
Hadley,  Aaron  S.,  485. 
Hadley,  Chas.  R.,  345. 
Hadley,  Ephraim  W.,  410, 

469. 

Hadley,  Geo.  H.,  486. 
Hadley,   Henry,  470. 
Hadley,  Horace  L.,  389. 
Hadlock,  Wm.   E.,   476. 
Hale,  Geo.  H.,  445. 
Hale,  Jos.,  Jr.,  363. 
Haley,  Peter  B.,  383. 
Hall,    Abiather,    412. 
Hall,   Chaplain  E.   H.,   258. 
Hall,  Geo.  F.,  352. 
Hall,   Geo.   G.,  401. 
Hall,  H.  H.,  401. 
Hall,  Jas.  H.,  486. 
Hall,   Jeremiah  G.,  401. 
Hall,  Jos.   W.,  401,  471. 
Hall,   Luther,   401,   471. 
Hall,   Samuel  S.,  447. 
[Hall,   Thos.,   378. 
Hall,  Thos.  J.,  410,  469. 
|Hall,  Wm.  PL,  450. 
Hallahan,    Daniel,    383. 
!Halliday,   Fred  P.,   471. 
|  Ham,   Frederic,   396. 


INDEX. 


497 


Ham,  Henry  E.,  389. 
Hamlin,  Hannibal,  54. 
Hamilton,   144,    146,    147. 
Hamilton,   Chas.   L.,  450. 
Hamilton,   Geo.,   376. 
Hammaok,   J.   D.,   49. 
Hammond,    David   P.,    476. 
Hammond,    Geo.    A.,    456. 
Hammond,  H.  G.,  363. 
Handy,  Chas.  F.,  466. 
Hanham,  Wm.  C.,  349. 
Hanley,  Wm.,  378. 
Hannaford,   E.   F.,   77,   363. 
Hanson,  Joseph,  383. 
Harding,  A.  W.,  418. 
Harding,   C.    H.,   378. 
Harding,    Frederick    H.,  418 

476. 

Harding,  Stephen,  406. 
Harding,  Wm.,  406. 
Harding,   W.   F.,   369. 
Hardy,  Henry  C.,  418. 
Hardy,   Stephen  E.,   466. 
Hardy,  Win.  A.,  6,  186,  230 

231,  396. 

Harlow,  Thos.  S.,  123. 
Harney,  Jas.  M.,  456. 
Harold,  B.  E.,  442. 
"  Harriet  Lane,"  Steamer,  41 
Harriman,    Archibald,    486. 
Harriman,  Franklin,  486. 
Harriman,    Hiram,    471. 
Harriman,   H.   G.,   401. 
Harrington,   Arthur,   418. 
Harrington,    C.    T.,    331. 
Harrington,   Geo.   E.,   433. 
Harrington,  Geo.  E.,  450. 
Harrington,    Geo.    S.,    466. 
Harrington,  John,  361,  380. 
Harrington,  John  G.,  456. 
Harrington,  Thos.  J.,  456. 
Harrington,    Win.    H.,    389. 
Harris,  Geo.  F.,  363. 
Hart,  Edward,  447. 
Hart,  Geo.  O.,  358. 
Hart,   Henry  T.,   412. 
Hart,  John  F.,  331. 
Hart,  J.  W.,  324. 
Hart,   S.   P.,   389. 
Hartford,   E.   G.,  426. 
Hartranft,  Col.  J.  F.,  85. 
Hartsfield,    Mrs.    J.    L.,    258 
Hartshorn,  E.  H.,  481. 


'Hartshorn,    Hollis,   406. 
'Hartshorn,    Jos.    W.,    401. 
JHartwell,   A.   A.,   331. 
Hartwell,    D.   A.,   383. 
Harvey,   Jas.   A.,  349. 
'Harwood    Tobacco     Factory, 
!     95,  96. 

Haskell,   Alfred,    345,   403. 
[Hastings,  Aug.   L.,  426,  481. 
'Hastings,    E.    L.,    426. 
J  Hastings,  E.   M.,  462. 
[Hastings,    H.    X.,    127,    410, 
|Hatch,  D.  G.,  353. 
]  Hat  eh,   E.   K.,   349. 
Hatch,    John    Q.,    476. 
I  Hatch,  John  W.,  447. 
Hatch,    Joshua,   Jr.,   341. 
Hatch,  Seth,  456. 
Hatteras,  208,  228,  238,  244, 
Hatteras  Inlet,    199. 
iHatton,   Jas.,   336. 
iHaven,  Lewis  E.,  450. 
Havlin,   Michael,   3S3. 
,  Havre-de-Grace,    313. 
iHawes,  W.  L.,  381. 
Hawkins,   Edwin   D.,   486. 
Hawkins,  PL   M.,  345. 
Hayden,  F.  W.,  331. 
.Hayden,  Wm.   H.,  Jr.,  332. 
Hayes,  Jefferson,  484. 
'Hayes,  Patrick,  383. 
Hayes,  Wm.,   336. 
Hayford,  Scth,  407. 
Haynes,  Amory  S.,  422,  424, 

434,   479. 

Haynes,   D.  J.,  339. 
Hayward,  Alex.  M.,  332. 
j Hazel,  Thos.  W.,  421. 
[Headquarters     Freedmen's 

Bureau,    Xewbern,    218. 
JHeald,   T.    F.,    353. 
Healey,   P.   G.,   349. 
;Heath,    Benj.,    471. 
!Heath,  Timothy  W.,  447. 
JHeintzelman,    Col.  S.   P.,  53, 

64,  69,  82. 

"  Heirs-at-Law,  The,"  293. 
jHendarkin,  Timothy,  407. 
Hendrickson,    Mr.,    112. 
j  Henry,  Guy  V.,  64. 
.Henry,  Wm.  E.,  462. 
I  Henry    House    (1910),    86. 


! Henry  House  in  Battle  Days, 

74,   81. 

Henry,  Judith,  74. 
1  Herman,  Conrad,  Jr.,  336. 
JHerrick,  Chas.  F.,  466. 
;Herrick,  Winslow,  465. 
iHersey,  Alvin  H.,  485. 
Hersum,  Greenleaf,  341. 
'Hertel,   Fred.  W.,  456. 
JHervey,  Frank,  407,  408. 
Hettler,  Thos.,  77,  349. 
'Hewes,  Alex.  H.,  394,  454. 
Hewitt,  Henry,  486. 
Hibbard,  C.  A.,  358. 
Hicks,  Gov.  T.  H.,    31. 
Higgins,  H.  W.,  369. 
JHiggins,  Thos.,  378. 
Higginson,  Lewis,  466. 
Hildreth,  E.  H.,  326. 
Hildreth,   John  P.,   418. 
:  Hildreth,    Reuben,    418. 
iHildreth,  S.  G.,  450. 
Hildreth,  Win.  H.,  389,  391, 

449. 

Hill,  Chas.,  412. 
Hill,  Chas.  W.,  193,  426. 
Hill,  Gen.  D.H.,  204  ,207,  208. 
Hill,  Frank,  476. 
Hill,   James,   326. 
Hill,  Jas.  G.,  40(i. 
Hill,  James  W.   R.,  348. 
Hill,  John  Q.,  451,  457. 
Hill,  Jos.  C.,  349. 
Milliard,  Frank  S.,  466. 
Hills,  T.  Aug.,  460. 
Hilton,   Amos  S.,   364,   416. 
:  Hilton,  Chas.  C.,  433. 
Hills,  Chas.  F.,  433. 
Hinrhey,  Thos.,  376. 
Hinckley,    Dexter  B.,   462. 
Hinckley,  Geo.  W.,  383. 
Hines,    Ira,   407. 
Hines,  John  M.,  358. 
Ilitchborn,    Henry    G.,    336, 

476. 

Hitchings,   Lawson,   396. 
Hobart,  Geo.  W.,  76,  336. 
Hobbs,    Chas.    E.,    444,    445. 
;Hodgdori,  J.  K.,  363. 
1  Hodges,   Geo.   F.,   72,"  322. 
Hodgkins,  G.  A.  S.,  363. 
jHodsdon,  Alfred,  363. 
Hodson,  Henry,  447. 


32 


498 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Hogg,    Brown   &   Taylor,    17. 'Howard,  Capt.  Thos.  F.,  229,' 

Holbrook,  A.  ,1.,   152,  398. 

Holbrook,    S.    E.,    Jr.,    335 

Holden,  Albert   X.,  486. 

Holden,  Lewis  C.,  482. 

Holden,  H.  R.,  249,  388. 

Holland,  C.  H.,  384. 

Holland,  Henry,  Jr.,  451. 

Holland,  Win.  A.,  4(56. 

Hollander,  C.  B.,  384. 

Hollander,  Mother  of  C. 

198. 

Hollis,    Fred.    A.,   456. 
Hollis,  Win.  L.,  456. 
Holman,   Alvin,   447. 
Holman,   H.  A.,  345. 
Holmes,  E.  A.,  456. 
Holmes,  V.  E.,  341. 
Holmes,    P.    M.,    369. 
Holmes,  Warren  A.,  418. 
Holmes'   Hole,    130,    131. 
Holt,  Samuel  L.,  421. 
Holt,  Stephen  A.,  426. 
"  Home  Again,"   92. 
"  Home,  Sweet  Home, 

252. 
Homeward    Bound,    87 

312 


iHowe,  Chas.  A.,  433. 
!Howe,  E.  D.,  6,  426,  427,  430. 

Howe,   Elias,   Jr.,   55,    56. 

Howe,   Eugene    L.,    482. 

Howe,     Frederick,     442. 

Howe,  Geo.  A.,  482. 

Howe,   Geo.   L.,  482. 

Howe,  Geo.  W.,  427. 

Howe,    Humphrey,    407 

Howe,  John  H.,  482. 

Howe,  Lewis  T.,  422. 

Howe,   Pliny   R.,   363. 

Howe,  Dr.  S.  G.,  44. 

Howe,  Wallace,  427. 

Howes,  Alvin  C.,  442. 

Howes,  Edwin,  401. 

Howes,    Henry   F.,   401,   414 

Howes,  Horatio,  398. 

Howes,  Micajah  C.,  433,  451. 


Hoyt, 
Hoyt, 


D.    E.,   374. 
D.  W.,  349. 
Hoyt,  Henry  D.,  332. 
246,  Hoyt,    John  A.,   358. 

jHoyt,  John  H.,  77,  101, 
243,jHoyt,   Van  B.,  339. 
JHovey,  M.  M.,  353. 


345. 


Homer,  Capt.  Geo.   H.,  272,!Hubbard,   H.   X.,  34^ 


293,  439,  457. 
Hooker,  D.  S.,  Jr.,  407, 
Hooper,  Chas.  O.,  471. 
Hooper,  Geo.  E.,  378,  486. 
Hopkins,  E.  S.,  446. 
Hopkins,  Geo.  E.,  398. 
Hopkins,  Jas.  R.,  363. 
Hopkins,   L.   F.,  412. 
Hopkins,  L.  P.,  447. 
Home,    Geo    K.,    410. 
Home,   Geo.   W.,  Jr.,  433. 
Horton,  Jas.  A.,  462,  482. 
Hosea,  I.  F.  R,,  343. 
Hosmer,    Cyrus   S.,    77,    101, 

352. 

Hosmer,  Orran  S.,  332. 
"  Hot   Lemonade,"   251. 
Houghton,   B.   S.,   192,  431. 
Howard,   Byron  W.,  486. 
Howard,  Fred.  A.,  433. 
Howard,  Jas.,  407. 
Howard,  John  H.,  326,   328. 
Howard,  O.  O.,   64. 


Hudson,  H.  A.,  462. 
jHuff,  Geo.  H.,  456. 
"  Hunchback,"  205,  210. 
Hunt,  Perley  M.,  471. 
Hunt,  S.  C.,  323,  369. 
Hunter,   Col.    David,   64,    69, 

82,  84. 

Hunter,  M.  C.,  456. 
Hunter,  Pat.  Henry,  378. 
Huntington.    H.    W.,    419. 
Kurd,  Luther,  447. 
Hurd,    Surg.    S.    H.,   439. 
Kurd,  Wm.  H.,  326,  439,  484 
Hurlburt,    Jas.    D.,   427. 
Huston,   W.   W.,   384. 
Hutchins,  Capt.  John,  11,  79 

342. 

Hutchinson,  B.  F.,  389. 
Hutchinson,    C.    K.,    389. 
Hyde,   R.  J.,  363. 

Illustrations1 — Medal  of  Hon 
or,  21 ;  Uniform,  B  and  I,  21 
Regimental  Kitchen,  35 


Charging  up  Steep  Hill,  39; 
Why  Don't  You  Take  it? 
40;  Cavalry  Quarters,  43; 
Long  Bridge,  48;  Old  Stone 
House,  70;  Henry  House 
in  Battle  Days,  74;  Cub- 
Run  Bridge,  75;  Henry 
House  (1910),  86;  Home 
Again,  92;  Parish  Prison, 
X.  O.,  104;  P.  P.  Interior, 
108;  Old  Cotton  Mill,  Salis 
bury,  115;  Residence  of  J. 
R.  Grist,  139;  Kinston, 
167;  Whitehall,  171;  Golds- 
boro,  181 ;  Camp  Peirson, 
194;  Headquarters,  Freed- 
men's  Bureau,  Xewbern, 
218;  Joe  Sinclair's  Dog, 
250;  Xewbern  Monument, 
256;  Fort  McIIenry,  282; 
Bombardment  of  Fort  Mc- 
Henry,  292;  Fort  Federal 
Hill,  294;  Whiting's  Pass, 
299;  Fort  Marshall,  301; 
Map  of  Baltimore,  463. 

Indian  Clubs,  201. 

Ingalls,  Amos  P.,  389. 

Ingalls,  James,  419. 

Ingalls,  Wm.,   374. 

Ingoldsby   Legend,    289. 

Ireland,  Edward  C.,  433. 

Ireland,  H.  A.,  345. 

Ireland,  Jas.  L.,  447. 

Ivers,  R.  A.,  401. 

Jacobs,   Andrew   X.,   451. 
[Jacobs,    Aug.,    465. 
Jacobs,  Geo.  F.,  390. 
!  Jacobs,  H.  B.,  345. 
Jackman,   Wm.,   396. 
Jackson,  Chas.  E.,  440. 
Jackson,  Edward  P.,  440. 
Jackson,  H.  H.,  341. 
Jackson,  Jas.  M.,  455. 
Jackson,  J.   W.,  41. 
Jackson,    Miss.,   97. 
Jackson  Square,  36. 
Jackson,  "  Stonewell,"  74. 
James,  Frank  A.,  447. 
James,   George,   419. 
James,  John,  407. 
;  Jameson,   Andrew,   412. 
;  Jeffard,  J.  F.,  353. 


INDEX. 


499 


Jeffrey,   J.    N.,   324.                    Keene,  A.  C.,  407. 

Jenkins,  Ellis,  401. 

Keene,  Henry  C.,  485. 

Jenkins,    Horatio,    Jr.,    363. 

Keene,  Lewis  H.,  345,  442. 

Jersey  City,  313. 

Keene,  Wm.  W.,  322. 

Jewell,  Chas.  H.,  480. 

Keffe,  Wm.,  378. 

Jewett,  J.  H.,  384. 

Kehew,   F.   A.,   358. 

Jillson,  Jas.,  427. 

Kehew,  John  H.,  326. 

"  Jim  "   and   his   mother,   24. 

Kehoe,  Geo.  H.,  369. 

"  John,"    oo. 

Keith,   Henry  A.,  467. 

Jones,  Andrew  B.,  486. 

Kelley,    Edward,    358. 

Jones,  Chas.,  396. 

Kelley,   Geo.   A.,  413,  469. 

Jones,  Edward,  462. 

Kelley,   Jas.   W.,   358. 

Jones,  Capt.  E.  J.,  254. 

Kelley,    Michael,    375. 

Jones,    Eliphalet    J.,    401.        ;Kelley,  Thos.  B.,  358. 

Jones,  Enoch  C.,  401. 

Kelley,  Walter  C.,  475. 

Jones,  George,  484. 

Kelly,  Owen,  487. 

Jones,  Geo.  H.,  439. 

Kenah,  Ezra  B.,  419,  475. 

Jones,  Howard,  456. 

Kandall,  Wm.  T.,  413. 

Jones,  James  B.,  401. 

Kennefick,    Patrick,    378. 

Jones,  John  F.,  487. 

Kennedy,  E.   H.,  456. 

Jones,   Col.   J.   R.,  232. 

Kennedy,  James,  433. 

Jones,   J.   Wesley,   49. 

Kennedy,  Jos.  W.,  250. 

Jones,  L.  F.,  413. 

Kenney,  John,  378. 

Jones,  M.  D.,  336. 

Kent,   John,   397. 

Jones,  Oscar,  462,  466. 

Key,  Francis  Scott,  281,  292, 

Jones,   Perez   C.,   487. 

311. 

Jones,  Samuel,  358. 

Keyes,  H.  W.,  29,  33,  46,  59, 

Jones,  Win.,  433. 

62,    321. 

Jones,  Wm.  E.,  407. 

Keyes.  Sumner  W.,  482. 

Johnson,  A.   X.,  353. 

Kidder,  Alanson  F.,  476. 

Johnson,   Chas.   A.,   353.           Kidder,  Geo.  H.,  332. 

Johnson,  F.  E.,  390,  451.         Kief,   Thos.,   341. 

Johnson,  F.  W.,  445   (2).        Kiernan,  F.  T.,  341. 

Johnson,   Henry,   353.               jKilborn,  Albert,  337. 

Johnson,  John  H.,  412.             Kilborn,   Chas.,   363. 

Johnson,  Jos.,  363,   410.           Kilborne,  W.  A.,  413. 

Johnson,  L.  E.,  396.                    Kilham,   Geo.   W.,   337,   393  J 

Johnston,   Major,   300.                  454. 

Johnston,    Jas.    R.,  452,  482. 

Killduff,  Wm.  J.,  442. 

Johnston,   Gen.   Joe,   69. 

Kimball,  Chas.,  376. 

Jordan,  Henry  L.,  476.            Jvimball,  Chas.  E.,  390. 

Jordan,  Jas.  W.,  427. 

Kimball,   Chas   H.,   387. 

Jourdan,  John,  427,  430. 

Kimball,    Chas.  L.,  467. 

Journal,  Boston,  23. 

Kimball,  Chas.  M.,  6,  412  (2), 

Joyce,  Patrick,  433. 

413. 

Judge,  C.  W.,  341. 

Kimball,  Geo.  A.,  384. 

July  4,  60. 

Kimball,  Geo.  U.,  405. 

June   17,  58. 

Kimball,  G.    W.,    288,     413, 

472. 

Kaler,   Cornelius,  341. 

Kimball,  Hiram  A.,  390. 

Kane,  Marshall  G.  P.,  285.    Kimball,  I.  W.,  407. 

Keefe,  Jas.   J.,  456. 

Kimball,  L.  B.,  456. 

Keenan,  James,  487. 

Kimball,  Wm.  L.,  358. 

|King,   Jos.   E.,   396. 
Kingman,  John,  485. 
Kingsbury,  Geo.  G.,  467. 
Kingsbury,  L.  H.,  Jr.,  398. 
Kingsley,   A.    A.    (2),   401. 
Kinsley,  F.  R.,  360. 
Kinsley,  Wallace,  380. 
Kinsley,  Willard  C.,  63,  363. 
Kinston,    163,    164. 
Kirby,  J.  W.,  463. 
Kittridge,  Rev.  A.  E.,  23. 
Knapp,  Samuel,  447, 
Knight,  Jason  H.,  329. 
Knowles,   Chas.    K.,    341. 
Knowlton,  Jas.  H.,  288,  413, 

472. 

Knowlton,   Samuel,   221. 
Knox,  Jos.  H.,  417. 
Knox,  Jos.  J.,  413,  472. 
Kulm,  Chas.  H.,  345. 
Kurtz,  Chas.,  428. 

Lahey,   Michael,  485. 
Laighton,    Thos.,   396. 
Lake,  Alpheus   A.,   337,   456. 
Lamb,  Edward  C.,  442. 
Lamon,  Geo.  W.,  413. 
Lamos,  Chas.  T.,  349. 
"  Lancet,"   Gunboat,   200. 
Lancy,  S.  O.,  428. 
Lander,   F.   A.,   405. 
Lander,    Wm.    D.,    456. 
Lander,  Gen.  F.  W.,  123. 
Lander,  Camp,   124. 
Lane,   Charles,   485. 
Lane,  C.  D.  W.,  369,  370. 
'Lane,  F.  L.,  76. 
Lane,  Geo.,  19. 
Lane,   Frank  W.,  337. 
Lang,  Alfred  T.,  443. 
Larrabee,  Wm.  H.,  422. 
Larreau,  Edward,  463. 
Latham,  Andrew  M.,  484. 
Latham,   Stephen  B.,  482. 
Lauriat,  Geo.  W.,  352. 
Lavally,  Louis,  482. 
Lawrence,  Color  Bearer,  shot, 

2. 
Lawrence,  Daniel  W.,  16,  439, 

462. 
Lawrence,  Eber  H.,  288,  413, 

472. 
Lawrence,  L.  P.,  345. 


500 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Lawrence,    Roswell,   482. 
Lawrence,   S.   A.,   462,  463. 
Lawrence,  Gen.  S.  C.,  front., 

6,    10,    19,   26,   29,   30,   38, 

46,  49,  51,  55,  60,  63,  65, 

71,  72,  76,  81,  90,  91,  92, 

248,  318,  319. 
LawTence,   Wm.,  407. 
Lawrence,  Wm.  H.,  77,  343. 
Lawrence,  Wm.   H.   H.,  467. 
Leach,  Aug.  H.,  472. 
Leach,  Chas.  E.,  396. 
Leach,  Harris,  358. 
Leache,  Josiah,  Jr.,  353. 
Leavitt,  I.   P.,  326. 
Leavitt,    J.   W.,    384. 
LeBaron,  Jos.  S.,  413. 
Ledwith,  Bernard,  443. 
Lee,  Col.  H.  C.,  140,  141,  160, 

186,  192,  200,  219,  243. 
Lee,  John  W.,  358. 
Lee,  Lyman  W.,  405. 
Lee,   Nicholas,   384. 
Lee,  Gen.  Rob't  E.,  59. 
Leighton,    Nehemiah,   349. 
Leman,  Fred.  W.,  419. 
Lenahan,  M.  W.,  456. 
Leonard,  A.  G.,  450. 
Leonard,  Jas.,  326. 
Leonard,  M.  B.,  451. 
Leonard,   Wendell,   443. 
Leonard,    Wm.,    472. 
Leonard,  Wm.  A.,  378. 
Leslie,  Albert  S.,  337. 
Le  Terre,  E.  L.,  417. 
Lethbridge,  Willard  H.,  467. 
Letters  from  camp,   153. 
Letters  from  Cape  Cod  boy, 

125,  152,  155,  164,  170,  174. 
Letters   from   Darius   Baker, 

142. 
Letters  from  E.  A.  Perry,  142, 

etc. 

Letters  from  prisoner,   114. 
Levitt,  John  C.,  384. 
Lewis,  Aug.  B.,  345. 
Lewis,  Chas.  E.,  396. 
Lewis,  Chas.  H.,  476. 
Lewis,  Geo.  F.,  447. 
Lewis,  "Limber,"  263. 
Libbey,   Allen,   402. 
Libby,  Chas.  W.,  6,  297,  456, 

457. 


Libby,  Henry,  326. 
Lincoln,  Chas.  E.,  419. 
Lincoln,  Edwin  H.,  399. 
Lincoln,  Geo.  E.,  384. 
Lincoln,  Geo.  W.,  443. 
Lincoln,  James,  Jr.,  398. 
Lincoln,  Josh.  W.,  337. 


Low,  Isaac  M.,  77,  101,  349. 
Low,  Solomon,  548. 
Lowe,  Isaac,  77. 
;Lowe,  Jas.  W.,  359. 
I  Lowell,  F.  H.,  428. 
Lufkin,  Wm.,  326. 
Lunt,  George,  9. 


[Lincoln,  President,  45,  56,  57,  Lunt,  Wm.  J.,  390. 


119. 

Lincoln,  Revere,  467. 
Lindley,  Austin  W.,  433. 
Linehan,  Dennis,  359. 
Linnell,  Jos.,  413. 
Litchfield,    Jos.    V.,    407. 
Litchfield,  Lorenzo,  472. 
Little,  Geo.  H.,  387,  449. 
Little,  James,  413. 
Littlefield,   Clarence,   6,   286, 

472. 

Livingston,  B.  T.,  354. 
Livingston,  M.  V.,  341. 
Locke,  Jas.  D.,  407. 


JLutted,  Wm.,  440. 
iLyman,   Jos.    D.,   434. 
| Lyman,  Richard  F.,  482. 
Lynch,  John,  396. 
Lynde,  Granville,  487. 
Lynn,  125. 

Lyon,  Walter  F.,  467. 
Lyons,  John  E.,  354. 
Lyons,  Jos.  W.,  467. 

McAlear,  Jas.,  407. 
McAllaster,  Benj.  F.,  476. 
McAnaney,    Thos.,    402. 
McAuslan,  Jas.,  463. 


Locke,  Capt.  J.  W.,  12,  329. | McAuslan,  Wm.  H.,  419,  474. 
;Locke,   Wm.   E.,   384.  AlcCabe,  Jas.  F.,  434,  456. 

;Lockwood,  Gen.  H.  H.,  278.    McBride,   Michael,   434. 
Loftus,   M.  J.,  428.  McCall,  Peter,  487. 

Long,   John,   378.  McCart,  Jas.,  447. 

Long  Bridge,  41,  46,  47,  48,  McCarta,  E.  S.,  402. 

49.  McCarty,  Daniel,  378. 

Lonsdale,  Jas.,  451.  McClannin,   Jos.   W.,   466. 

Looney,    Timothy,    407.  ! McClelland,  Hon.  G.  W.,  49. 

Lord,  Byron,  332.  |  McCloud,  James,  378. 

Lord,  Chas.   L.,  337. 
Lord,  Geo.  H.,  332. 
Lord,  Henry  T.,  413. 
Lord,  Lewis  O.,  345. 
Lord,  Stephen,  407. 
Loring,  Benj.  J.,  Jr.,  354. 
|  Loring,  F.  A.,  345. 
Loring,  Geo.  H.  M.,  476. 


Loring,  John  H.,  369. 
Lothrop,  Dr.  S.  K.,  199. 
Loud,  A.  J.,  324. 
Loud,  Geo.  W.,  463. 


McCloud,  John,  337. 
McCloud,   Peter,  378. 
McCormick,  Jas.  H.,  447. 
McCurdy,  Geo.  A.,  249,  402. 
McCurdy,   Jas.,   447. 
McDavitt,  Wm.,  349. 
McDermot,  Frank,  447. 
[McDonald,     Geo.    W.,     exe- 
!      cuted,  291. 
Macdonald,  Jas.  P.,  476. 
I  McDonald,  Jos.  H.,  456. 
McDonald,   Lawrence,   378. 


Loureiro,   Constantine,  476.   j McDonald,  Win.,  286. 


Love  story,  56. 
Love,  Walter  W.,  443. 
Lovejoy,  A.  B.,  413. 
Lovejoy,  Fred  A.,  476. 
Loveless,  Eli  W.,  384. 
Levering,  Henry,  447. 
Lovett,  Fred  H.,  467. 
Low,  Geo.  H.,  390. 


McDowell,  Gen.  Irvin,  36,  53, 

63,  64,  68,  70. 
McDuffie,  Hugh,  359. 
Mace,  H.  W.,  463. 
McEleney,   Philip   J.,   456. 
McElroy,   Edward,   375. 
McElroy,   Edward,   396. 
McFarland,  Chas.,  77,  359. 


INDEX. 


501 


McFarland,  Wm.,  396. 
McGee,  Edward,  332. 
McGee,    John,    463. 
McGillicuddy,     Daniel,     155 

407. 

McGillicuddy,    Jas.,    407. 
McGilpin,   John,   443. 
McGrath,  John,  375. 
McGrath,   Patrick,   378. 
McHenry,  Jas.,  281. 
Mclntire,    Jas.,    456. 
Mclntire,    John,    428. 
Mclntire,  John,  337,  458. 
Mclntyre,  Geo.  A.,  443. 
Mack,  Edward  A.,   456. 
McKay,  E.  W.,  390. 
McKay,  Gordon,  332. 
McKay,  John,  487. 
McKay,  Thos.  M.,  332. 
McKendry,   Frank,   460. 
McKenzie,  John,  332. 
McKeon,   Frank,  443. 
McKinney,  Andrew,  407. 
Mackintire,  Chas.,  390. 
McKibbin,  R.  B.,  249. 
McLean,  John  F.,  4G6. 
McLeod,   Geo.    H.,   394. 
McLeod,    John,    396,    458. 
McMahon,   Michael,  349. 
McMastcr,   J.    X.,   445. 
McXamara,    Frank,   443. 
McXamara,  John,  487. 
McX'amara,  Jos.  D.,  434. 
Macomber,    Chas.,   456. 
Macon,   Michael,  443. 
McSweeney,      Bernard,      77, 

101,  349. 

Madden,  Thos.   F.,  456. 
Magoon,  Hon.  T.,   17. 
Maguire,   Thos.,    396. 
Mahoney,  Jas.,  378. 
Mahoney,  Sylvester,  378. 
Mail  for  Fifth  arrives,  156. 
Mallon,   Andrew  J.,   419. 
Manassas,  93. 
Mankin's  Woods,  276,  277. 
Mann,  Chas.  H.,  419. 
Mann,  E.  C.,  6,  380. 
Manning,  Chas.  L.,  390. 
Manning,  Jas.,  345. 
Manning,  Lewis  A.,  387,  479. 
Manning,  Wm.,  384. 
Mansir,  John,  402. 


iMansfield,  Ezra  A.,  467.         < Medal  of  honor,  21. 
| Mansfield,  Gen.  J.  K.  F.,  46,|Medford,  123. 


49. 


Meek,  Henry  M.,  451. 


Mansfield,  John  R.,  326.         Melcher>  Levi  L     326 
Mansfield    Theo.  F,  467.        M  Chag 

Maps: — Washington  to   Bull,,  . 

Run,  67;  Bull  Run  Battle-  Melvln'  Asa'  b'  57'  354'  355« 


field,  83;  X.  C.  Coast,  132; 


Melvin,   Jas.   C.,   6. 


Goldsboro  Expedition,  158;  Meh'in'  Wm.  w-  369,  419. 

Goldsboro  Battlefield,  l75JMerriam,    Frank   E.,   472. 
Map  of  Baltimore,  436.  'Merrill,  A.  K.,  370. 

March  Bros.,   23.  j  Merrill,   Hayden  A.,  451. 

Marchand,  Allen,  402.  Merrill,    Henry   O.,    359. 

Marden,  Charles,  396.  J  Merrill,  John  A.,  428. 

Marden,  David,  472.  JMerritt,  Orlando  P.,  476. 

Marden,  Capt.  Geo.  H.,  272,|Meserve,  Ebenezer,  341. 

334,    393,    453.  (Messer,    Capt.    Carlos  P.,    6, 

JMarden,  John  E.,  393,  454.   ,      12,  338. 
Marden,  John  W.,  390.  Mcsser,   Geo.  E.,  355. 

Marion,    Horace    E.,    6,    257,  Metzgar,  Wm.,  451. 

413,  469.  Mice  annoy,  198. 

Marple,  S.  R.,  394.  Michigan  regiments,    1st,  52, 

Marsh,  Geo.  A.,  451.  j      64. 

Marsh,  Geo.  E.,  6,  257,  390,  Middleton,  Jas.  W.,  458. 

391.  Miles,  Alonzo,  463. 


Marshall,  C.  G.,  359. 
Marshall,  James,  378. 
Marshall  House,  41,  45. 


Miles,  Col.  D.  S.,  64,  69. 
Miles,  Rev.  J.  B.,  247. 
Miles,   Lewis  H.,  463. 


Martha's     A'ineyard     Camp,  Miller,    Mrs.   Dr.,    166. 

120.  ! Miller,  Eugene  J.,  337,  455. 

Martin,  John  W.,  487.  Miller,   Geo.   W.,   407. 

Martin,  Thos.,  413.  Aliller,   John   F.,   477. 

/'Maryland,  My  Maryland, "|Miller'   Thos.,  432. 


307. 

Mason,  Chas.  L.,  450. 
Mason,  Daniel,  456. 
Mason,  E.   H.,  407. 
| Mason,  Jos.  F.,  417. 
Mason,  Theo.  L.,  419. 
[Mason,  William,  443. 
Alass.    Regts.    at    X'ewbern, 

135,   189. 


Miller,  Wm.,  407. 
Miller,   Wm.    A.,   447. 
Miller,  Wm.  D.  F.,  417,  474. 
Millett,  B.  H.,  359. 
Mills,  Chas.  E.,  341. 
Mills,  John  A.,   385. 
Mills,  John  E.,  339. 
Mills,  John  F.,  330. 
Mills,  Palemon  C.,   346. 


Matthews,  Ebenezer  B.,  407.  Mills,   Wm.   W.,   341. 
Matthews,    Edmund,    398.       Mimic    attack    and    repulse, 
Maxfield,  Jas.,  Jr.,  326.  196. 

Maxfield,  John  M.,  355.  Minneaugh,   Michael,   385. 

May,  Wm.  O.,  349.  Minnesota  regiments,  1st,  53, 


jMaynard,  Geo.  W.,  259,  384. 
Maynard,  John  F.,  467. 


Meader,   John   K.,   249,   419.  Miskelley,  E.  H.,  419. 


64,  65,  83,  84. 
Minot,  Johan,  458. 


Means,   Rev.    Mr.,    supt.    of 

freedmen,  193. 
'Means,  Geo.  W.,  407. 


Miskelley,  Jas.  W.,  419. 
"  Miss   as   good   as   a   mile," 
241. 


502 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Mitchell,  Geo.  E.,  6,  117,  164, 
183,221,255,257,385,386. 

Mitchell,   H.  H.,   322. 

Mixter,   C.   S.,   348. 

Mobile,  97. 

Monocacy  Junction,   311. 

Monument,  First  soldiers',  21. 

Moonlight   lark,   42. 

Mooney,  C.  A.,  363. 

Mooney,  Jas.,  349. 

Moore,  Benj.,  343. 

Moore,    Benj.    X.,    390,   449. 

Moore,  D.  P.,  76,  327. 

Moore,  Geo.  W.,  390. 

Moore,   John  A.,   260,   482. 

Moore,  Milton,  6,  413. 

Moore,  Wm.   F.,  364. 

Moore's  (Rebel)  Battery,  142. 

Moran,  John,  487. 

Morehead   City,    134,   244. 

Morgan,  C.  C.,  447. 

Morgan,  Thos.,  463. 

Morley,  Alex.,   378. 

Morrill,  Geo.  E.,  419. 

Morrill,  Jas.  M.,  332. 

Morris,  Geo.   O.,  350. 

Morris,   John,   378. 

Morris,  Gen.  W.  W.,  279, 
281,  287,  300. 

Morrison,   D.   P.,  337. 

Morrison,   I.   T.,   346. 

Morrison's  Battery,  174,  180. 

Morse,  Chas.  S.,  451. 

Morse,  Ezra,  249,  402. 

Morse,  Geo.  E.,  350. 

Morse,  Geo.  J.,  465. 

Morse,  Geo.  W.,  327. 

Morse,  Jas.  A.,  419. 

Morse,   J.    T.,   463. 

Morse,  Leopold,  18. 

Morse,    Sanford    A.,    487. 

Moser,  John  H.,  327. 

Moses,    Geo.,    332. 

Moses,  Jas.,  327. 

Mosman,   Melzar  H.,   257. 

Motley,   Patrick,   451. 

Moulton,  Elbridge,  402,  472. 

Moulton,  Frank  B.,  396. 

Moulton,  H.  W.,  327. 

Moulton,   H.   M.,   385,  386. 

Moulton,   Jos.,   370,   416. 

Mullalley,    John,   434. 

Mullett,  Thos.  W.,  419,  475 


iMulliken,   Chas.   F.,   355. 
Mulreany,  Patrick,  378. 
[Mulrooney,    Wm.,    379. 
JMundy,  Thos.  B.,  443. 

Munroe,  B.  F.,  451. 

Alunroe,  Stephen,  327. 

Munsey,  Jos.  C.,  327. 
iMurch,   Chas.,  341. 
JMurdock,   Alex.,   413. 
i Murphy,    Michael,    379. 
!  Murphy,  Michael  K.,  413. 
Murphy,    Richard,    428. 

Murphy,   T.    G.,    359. 

Murray,  George,  487. 

Murray,  John,  379. 

Murray,   Thos.,   463. 

Murray,  Wm.  F.,  396. 

Murrey,    Edward,    477. 

Murrey,    Michael,    477. 

Muster-out    (9  mos.),  248. 

Myrick,  Geo.,  398. 

Myrick,    Isaac,    Jr.,    398. 

Myrick,   Jos.  A.,  402. 

Nas.h,    Wm.    H.,    419. 
Xason,   David   A.,   440. 
Nason,    Geo.    W.,    6,    22,    77, 

117,   258,    364. 
Nay,   Jos.   B.,   357. 
Neagle,  M.  A.,  376. 
Xealey,  Chas.,  355. 
Xedtlinger,  Edward,  385. 
XTegro   school,    207. 
Xeiss,  Geo.  B.,  447. 
Nelson,  Albert,  394. 
Nelson,   X.   F.,  364. 
Nelson,  Samuel,  434. 
Nevers,  Chas.  W.,  390,  391. 
Newborn,  134,  150,  186,  217, 

226,  236,  242,  263. 
Newbern     Monument,     255, 

256. 
Newbern  National  Cemetery, 

264. 

Newbern  Progress,   193. 
Newcomb,    Edward,    419. 
Newell,   Frank  A.,  472    (2). 
Newell,  Fred  A.,  6,  472   (2) 
Newell,    Jas.    H.,    348. 
Newhall,  Alfred  A.,  473. 
Newhall,  Everett,  405. 
Newhall,  Geo.  W.,  477. 
.i  Newhall,   R.   H.,   370. 


Newhall,   Stephen   H.,   487. 

New  Orleans,  97,  113. 

Newport,  R.  I.,  30. 

Newton,  Capt.  Chas.  B.,  241, 
421. 

Newton,  Christopher  C.,  482. 

Xewton,  F.  B.,  463. 

Newton,   F.    M.,  428. 

Xew  Year's  Day,   191. 

Xew  York,  28,  88,  274. 

Xew  York  Tribune,  28. 

Nichols,   Chas.   H.,   337. 

Nichols,  Enoch,  451. 

Nichols,   Geo.,   370. 

Nichols,  Geo.  C.,  434. 

Nichols,  Geo.  W.,  332. 

Nichols,  John  M.,  463. 

Nichols,    R.    F.,    350. 

Nickles,  J.   R.,   193,  413. 

Nicolay,   J.   G.,   75. 

Niles,  Jas.,  396. 

Niles,   Thos.,   370. 

Nimblet,   Benj.   F.,   327. 

Xine  Months'  Service,   119. 

X"orcross,  Arthur,  467. 

Xorris,   True   L.,   487. 

Xorth,  Jas.  D.,  327. 

Xorth  Carolina  Coast,  132; 
Map,  133. 

Northern  and  Southern  Sol 
diers  Compared,  195. 

Norton,    George,    337. 

Norton,  Geo.  A.,  374. 

Xorton,  H.  D.,  334. 

Xorton,    John,   443. 

Xorton,    John    B.,    314,    366. 

Xorwood,  Howard  J.,  477. 

Nourse,  Adrian  T.,  463. 

Nourse,  Andrew  L.,  428. 

Nourse,  Fred  F.,  463. 

X'ourse,  Jos.  B.,  428. 

Xourse,  Parkman,  463. 

Nourse,  Roscoe  H.,  463. 

Nourse,  S.  W.,  451. 

X'ova  Scotians,  18. 

Noyes,  A.  S.,  341. 

Nutter,  Mr.,  310. 

Nutter,  Jos.  S.,  387. 

Oakley,  Geo.,  335. 
Oakman,  W.  S.,  76,  337. 
Oaks,  J.  G.,  463. 
Ober,  Oliver  M.,  434,  445. 


INDEX. 


503 


Obor,  Peter,  434. 
Oberlin,  Ohio,  104,  112. 
O'Brien,  John,  396. 
O'Brien,  John,  428. 
O'Brien,  Michael,  407. 
Ockirigton,  J.  P.,  402. 
O'Connell,  Daniel,  4f>3. 
O'Connell,  Michael,  407. 
O'Hara,  Stephen,  77,  101,  350. 
Old  Ford,  143. 
Old  .scenes  revisited,  259. 
O'Leary,  Arthur  W.,  447. 
Oler,  Herman,  402. 
Oliver  Ditson  &  Co.,  IS. 
Oliver,  J.  W.,  304. 
Oliver,  S.  F.,  407. 
"  On  to  Richmond,"  04. 
One  Hundred  Days'  Service, 

209. 

O'Xeil,  M.  F.,  37.-). 
O'Xeil,  Thos.,  379,  390. 
Orange-  &    Alexandria    R.    R., 

o.-). 

Ordway,  Timothy  C.,  4S2. 
Osborn,   Amos,  390. 
Osborne,  I.  J.,  431. 
Osborne,  John  H.,  327. 
Osborne,  Laban  S.,  327. 
Osgood,  Amos  G.,  477. 
Osgood,  Geo.  H.,  4/>I. 
Osgood,  Jos.  H.,  341,  390. 
Otis,  Horace  W.,  (5,  257,  432, 

434. 

Otis,  James,  443. 
Otis.  Gen.  J.  L.,  describes 

Battle     of      Kinston,      100; 

Whitehall,  172;  Goldsboro, 

179. 
Otis,    Ward    M.,    0,   257,    434 

(2). 

Overcoats,   Poor,    127. 
Owens,  John  F.,  403. 

Packard,  John  A.,  447. 

'adric-k,  the  Pilot,  221. 

'age,  Alvin.  413. 

Jage,  Caleb  A.,  447. 

\tge,  Cyrus  A.,  405. 

3age,  E.  C.,  40S. 
Page,  H.  S.,  3SS. 

'aige,  Frank,  42S. 

'aige,  Orra,  4S7. 
Paine,  B.  F.,  402. 


Paine,  J.  W.,  305. 

Paine,  Win.  H.,  451. 

Palfrey,  Frank  A.,  111. 

Palfrey,    Gen.     H.    W.,     102, 

110;  biographical,   110. 
; Palmer,  Chas.  D.,  407. 

Palmer,  C.  H.  P.,  338. 

Palmer,  K.  J.,  340. 

Palmer,  Geo.  E.,  447. 

Palmer,  Gen.  I.  X.,  200,  201, 

214,    227,    229,    231,    238. 
I  Palmer,  J.   M.,  339. 

Palmer,   Lloyd  G.,  370. 

Palmer,  Samuel,  Jr.,  39(5,  477. 

Palmer,  Win.  H.,  327. 
| Parish   Prison,    102,    104;    In 
terior,    108. 

Parker,    B.    F.,    379. 

Parker,  Chas.,  390. 
'Parker,  Chas.,  413,  409. 

Parker,  Daniel,  419. 

Parker,  Geo.,  413. 

Parker,  Geo.  H.,  403. 

Parker,  John  A.,  402. 

Parker,  John  L.,  120. 

Parker,  Jos.  A.,  Jr.,  305. 

Parker,  Jos.  H.,  305. 

Parker,  Josiah  W.,  249,  405. 

Parker,  Xath.m  D.,  323,  332. 

Parker,  Oliver,  359. 

Parker,  S.  H.,  400. 

Parker,  Warren  F.,  305. 

Parker,  Wm.  D.,  332. 

Parkhurst,  Herbert,  473. 

Parkinson,  Jacob,  451. 

Parmalee,  H.  H.,  341. 

Parmenter,  Henry  L.,  482. 

Parmenter,  John  W.,  482. 

Parmenter,  Wm.  A.,  482. 
;Parshley,  Alonzo,  419,  474. 

Parshley,  Sylvester,  419. 

Parsons,  Benj.  B.,  385. 
| Parsons,  Benj.  W.,  332. 
[Parsons,  Jos.  M.,  324,  354. 
! Parsons,  Wm.  II. ,  434. 
jPassday,  Universal,  37. 

Puttee,  Geo.  E.,  385. 

Pattee,  Wm.  H.,  17,  343. 

Patten,  Geo.  W.,  371. 

Patten,  Jas.  W.,  70,  327. 

Patten,  W.  S.,  413. 

Paul,  Albert  H.,  3S5. 

Paul,  Jas.  E.,  3(51,  380. 


Paul!,  Isaac  D.,  449. 

j  Pay-day,  191. 

;Payne,  E.  D.,  117,  402. 

'Peabody,  Daniel  D.,  487. 

Peabody,  Wm.  M.,  327. 

Peach,  Geo.  S.,  357. 

Peach,  Wm.,  Jr.,  359. 

Peacock,  Edward,  447. 

IPeak,  Geo.  E.,  77,  150,  340. 

Peak,  H.  X.,  408. 

Pearson,  Amos,  451. 

Pearson,  Horace  R.,  291,  473. 

Pearson,  Jonas  M.,  340. 

Pease,  Albion  P.,  419. 

jPeasley,  A.  J.,  390. 

:Peasley,  Thos.  W.,  390. 

Peck,  Gen.  J.  J.,  159. 

Pecker,  John  B.,  341. 

Pedrick,  Jos.  W.,  42s. 

Peeler,  Albert,  337. 

Peirce,  E.  X.,  77,  150,  152. 

Peirson,  Geo.  E.,  12,  20,  42, 
44,02,  73,88,  US,  121,  127. 
149,  192.  197,  200,  201, 
2(11,  219,  227,  231,  242, 
243,  240,  200,  273,  274, 
277,  279,  2S(),  300,  315, 
321.  323,  373,  437. 

Pemberton.    F.    A.,   390. 

Pemberton,  Robt.,  77,  355. 

Penderghast,  Thos.,  435. 

Pennell,  Jos.  W..  4S7. 

Penney,  Ch  is.  H.,  337. 

Pennsylvania  Avenue,  47. 

Pennsylvanians,  30. 

Perham,  A.  H.,  337,  394. 

Perkins,  Captain,  49. 

Perkins,  A.  H.,  390. 

Perkins,  Aug.,  249,  402. 

Perkins,  Charles  H.,  371. 

Perkins,  Henry,  398. 

Perkins,  Jas.,  388. 

Perkins,  Jos.  X.,  359. 
Terkins,  Jos.  S.,  432. 

Perkins,  Wm.  H.,  390. 

Perley,  E.  G.,  390. 

Perrigo,  Jas.  G.,  473. 

Perry,  Aug.  E.,  487. 

Perry,  Chas.  W.,  407. 

Porry,  Crosby  A.,  403. 

Perry,  E.  A.,  0,  142,  173,  188, 

424,   427,  428. 
iPerrv,  Emery  B.,  473. 


504 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Perry,  Henry  H.,  422. 
Perry,  Henry  W.,  327,  473 
Perry,  Ira  G.,  485. 
Perry,  Russell,  402. 
Perry,   Win.   A.,   451. 
Persimmon,  The,  145. 
Persons,  Oscar,  365. 
Peterson,  Alex.,  440. 
Peterson,  Leonard,  332. 
Pettee,  Herman  A.,  473. 
Pettigrew,  General,  205. 
Pettingill,  Amos,  445. 
Peyton,  James,  487. 
Pfaff,  F.  W.,  70,  337. 
Phelps,  E.  F.,  355. 
Philadelphia,  88,  275,  313. 
Philbrook,  D.  T.,  341. 
Phillip,  Harrison  L.,  487. 
Phillip,  L.  W.,  341. 
Phinney,  Jos.  W.,  440. 
Phinney,  Prince  A.,  443. 
Phippen,  Chas.  H.,  327. 
Pickering,  B.  F.,  357. 
Pickett,  General,  180,  230. 
Pierce,  Chas.  C.,  405. 
Pierce,  Chas.  F.,  460. 
Pierce,  D.  H.,  359,  396. 
Pierce,  E.  N.,  37,  346,  405. 
Pierce,  Nicholas,  467. 
Pierce   Co.,   S.    S.,    bottle 

ale,    143. 

Pierce,   Warren  T.,   473. 
Pierce,  Wm.  D.,  428. 
Pike,  Wm.  F.,  443. 
Pingree,  Wm.  F.,  388. 
Piper,  Fred  G.,  463. 
Pitt,  Richard,  343. 
Place,  Chas.  W.,  451. 
Plaisted,  Geo.,  419. 
Plummer,  E.  F.,  390. 
Plunket,  Jas.  F.,  378. 
Plymouth,  148,  206,  229. 
Plympton,  Wm.  P.,  443. 
Poem,  219. 
Pohick  Church,  79. 
Point  Lookout,  311. 
Pollard,  Chas.  C.,  402. 
Pollock,  John,  357. 
Pomeroy,  Thos.  J.,  420. 
Pompey,  Stanley,  192. 
Pond,  Fred  A.,  473. 
Pond,  John  A.,  435,  447. 
Poole,  Chas.  F.,  477. 


Poole,  Parker  T.,  473. 
Poor,  Charles,  487. 
Poor,  Edwin  H.,  420. 
Poor,  Frank  W.,  451. 
Poor,  Geo.  H.,  391. 
Poor,  Jas.,  Jr.,  327. 
Poor,  Jas.  W.,  396,  458. 
Poor,  John  A.,  385,  386. 
Poor  whites,  230. 
Porter,  Col.  Andrew,  82. 
Portraits — 

Adams,  Chas.   (l),  427. 

Adams,  Chas.  (K),  434. 

Babcock,  E.  B.,  423. 

Babcock,  W.  T.,  425. 

Bailey,  A.  R.,  117,  432. 

Bailey,  Chas.  H.,  370. 

Bailey,  W.  C.,  380. 

Baker,  Darius,  399,  404. 

Balcom,  Geo.,  423. 

Barnes,  Jos.  WT.,  423,  427. 

Bates,  W.  C.,  (2),  100. 

Bennett,  F.  W.,  425. 

Black,  Lewis,  408. 

Bliss,  Chas.  H.,  429. 

Brigham,  W.  F.,  480. 

Brooks,  Webster,  399. 

Brown,  E.  A.,  424. 

Burroughs,  G.  W.,  380,44; 

Buxton,  Geo.  F.,  328. 

Childs,  Geo.  T.,  321. 

Churchill,  J.  K.,  370. 

Coffin,  E.  M.,  471. 

Comey,  A.  B.,  399. 

Currier,  Chas.,  409. 

Eustis,  Wm.  T.,  117,  267. 

Ferguson,  T.  T.,  412. 

Gilson,  H.  A.,  (2),  383. 

Girouard,  J.  B.,  425. 

Grammer,  W.  T.,  268. 

Harrington,  C.  T.,  331. 

Haynes,  A.  S.,  424,  434. 

Hervey,  Frank,  408. 

Hildreth,  Wm.  H.,  391. 

Hill,  J.  Q.,  457. 

Hobbs,  Chas.  E.,  445. 

Homer,  G.  H.,  457. 

Horton,  J.  A.,  462. 

Howard,  J.  H.,  328. 

Howard,  T.  F.,  267. 

Howe,  E.  D.,  427,  430. 

Howes,  H.  F.,  414. 

Johnson,  F.  W.,  445. 


Johnston,  J.  R.,  452. 
Jones,  Oscar,  462. 
Jourdan,  J.  W.,  430. 
Kimball,  C.  M.  (2),  412. 
Kingsley,  A.  A.,  401. 
Lane,  C.  D.  W.,  370. 
Lawrence,  D.  W.,  462. 
Lawrence,  S.  A.,  462. 
Lawrence,     S.    C.,    front., 

318. 

Libby,  C.  W.,  457. 
Mann,  E.  F.,  383. 
Marion,  H.  E.,  414,  415. 
Marsh,  Geo.  E.,  391. 
Mitchell,  Geo.  E.,  117,  384, 

386. 

Moulton,  H.  M.,  386. 
Nason,  Geo.  W.,  117. 
Nevers,  C.  W.,  391. 
Newell,  Frank  A.,  472. 
Newell,  Fred  A.,  472. 
Oliver,  J.  W.,  364. 
Otis  Brothers,  434. 
Payne,  E.  D.,  117. 
Peirson,  Geo.  H.,  118,  266. 
Perry,    E.    A.,    424,    427. 
Poor,  John  A.,  386. 
Rice,  Wm.  B.,  459. 
Rix,  Asa  W.  S.,  328. 
Russell,   John   H.,   452. 
Sampson,   Geo.   H.,  408. 
Sawyer,  J.   H.,  471. 
Sawyer,  R.  C.,  429. 
Sinclair,  Joe,  380. 
Small,  D.  A.,  391. 
Staples,  Fort,  415. 
Stock,  Henry,  408. 
Thacher,  F.,  401. 
Turner,  Edwin,  117. 
Watson,  T.  R.,  384. 
Weston,  H.  G.,  415. 
Wheeler,  J.  W.,  457. 
Whitcomb,  O.  A.,  117. 
Whitney,  J.  F.,  452. 
Williams,  F.  G.,  445. 
Wood,  Chas.  A.,  423. 
Wood,  Chas.  W.,  425,  430. 
Woodbury,  P.  O.,  445,  471. 
Worcester,  W.  E.  C.,  372, 

480. 

Wyer,  E.   C.,  404,  462. 
Wyman,    B.    F.,    401,    404. 
Post  24,  296. 


INDEX. 


505 


Potomac  River,  51. 
Potter,  Gen.  E.  E.,  240. 
Potter,  John  H.,  193,  385. 
Pousland,  John  H.,  327. 
Powell,  John  F.,  408. 
Powers,  Capt,  A.  A.,  272,  478. 
Powers,  Amos  P.,  482. 
Powers,  Andrew  A.,  421. 
Powers,  Chas.  H.,  365. 
Powers,  Edward  L.,  482. 
Powers,  Jas.  X.,  408. 
Powers,  Jos.  E.,  447. 
Prados,    Major,   95. 
Pratt,  Calvin  L.,  327. 
Pratt,    Edwin,    332. 
Pratt,  J.   M.  P.,  70,  337. 
Pratt,  Lewis  R.,  327. 
Pratt,   Thos.    S.,   448. 


Putney,  Alvardo,  448. 
Putney,  Horace  B.,  458. 

Quigg,  John,  463. 
Quigley,  Jos.,  371. 
Quimby,  Chas.  C.,  365. 
Quimby,  Lester  F.,  487. 
Quincy,  H.  A.,  72,  322. 
Quincy  Irishman,  31. 
Quinn,  John,  359. 
Quint,  X.  F.,  388. 

Raddin,  Albert,  451. 
Rahr,  C.  E.,  332. 
Ramsdell,  E.  W.,  77,  346. 
Ramsdell,  P.  A.,  357. 
Ramsey,  Lieut.  D.,  85. 
i Ramsay,  Royal,  371,  420. 


Prentiss,  Chas.  H.,  249,  405,  Rand,  J.  Hovey,  467. 


475. 

Prescott,  Albert,  367. 
Prescott,  Geo.,  417. 
Prescott,  Capt.  Geo.  L. 

44,    351. 

Prescott,  Geo.  W.,  477. 
Prescott,  Melvin,  420. 
Prescott,  W.  R.,  448. 
Prescott  House,  314. 
President,  The,  36. 
Pressey,  Chas.  A.,  385. 


Rand,  Xahum,  435. 
Randall,  Herbert  X.,  483. 
Randall,  John  C.,  397,  458. 
11,  'Randall,  John  W.,  448. 
|Ransom,  Gen.  M.  W.,  232. 
Ransom,  Wm.  p].,  329. 
Rats  in  camp,  152. 
Raverty,  Hugh,  487. 
Rawle's  Mills,  143,  266. 
Ray,  Albert  F.,  342. 
Ray,  Thos.  A.,  391. 


Preston,  Rev.  Geo.  M.,  123.    {Raymond,  C.  H.,  371. 


Preston,  Luther  H.,  448. 
Price  and  Birch,  55. 
Priest,  Chas.  H.,  435. 
Priest,  Francis  H.,  435. 
Priest,  Geo.  O.,  428,  460. 
Priest,  Oilman,  428. 
Priest,  Micah  B.,  422. 


Raymond,  Joel,  Jr.,  420. 
Rayner,  John,  333. 
Rayner,  Ozias,  333. 
Readville,  273. 
[Rebels  attack  Xewbern,  203; 
E.  F.  WTyer's  account,  204. 
Recruit  tries  to  escape,  296. 


Prince,  Gen.  Henry,  195,  216,  Recruits  arrive,  61. 

244.  I  Reed,  Alvin  R.,  408. 

Prisoners  at   Bull   Run,   93.    JReed,  Frank  P.,  449. 
Prisoners  of  War,  93;  Play  in  Reed,  Freeman  H.,  33; 


prison,    116. 
Proctor,  E.  W.,  451. 
Proctor,  Wm.  T.,  463. 
Prouty,  Albert  B.,  467. 
Prouty,  Wm.  X.,  346. 
Providence,  R.   L,   274. 
Puffer,  Chas.,  355. 
Puffer,   John   S.,   355. 
Putnam,  Judge  A.  A.,  258. 
Putnam,  George,  458. 
Putnam,  Thos.  L.,  449. 


Reed,  Henry,  463. 
Reed,  H.  F.,  346. 
Reed,  Jas.  H.,  350. 
Reed,  Thos.  B.,  420. 
Reed,  Wm.  C.  B.,  477. 
j Re-enlistment,  238. 
JReeves,  Sergeant,  258. 
[Regimental  band,  249. 
[Regimental  kitchen,  35. 
[Regimental  roster,  317. 
Regiments  fall  out  of  line,  69 


Reports: — Col.  Andrew  Port 
er's,  82;  Col.  Wm.  B.  Frank 
lin's,  84;  Spinola's,  214; 
Foster's,  224;  Col.  Peir- 
son's,  233. 

jReturn  from  Goldsboro,  183. 

jReturn  of  flags,  315. 

Return,  Tarboro  march,  146. 

Review,  Great,  200. 

jReynolds,  E.  W.,  355. 

JReynolds,  Jas.,  376. 

JReynolds,  S.  H.,  352. 

jRhoades,  Geo.  L.,  435. 

Rhode  Island  Brigade,  82. 

Rhodes,  A.  P.,  391. 

Rhodes,  Jos.,  391. 

Rice,  Aug.  R.,  420. 

Rice,  Chas.  W.,  483. 

Rice,  Fred  B.,  6. 
Hire,  Henry  M.,  483. 

Rico,  Moses  P.,  460. 

iRice,  Win.  B.,  6,  459  (2). 

Rice,  Win.  S.,  77,  101,  351. 

iRich,  Stillman,  408. 

Richards,  Chas.  F.,  23,  371. 

:Richards,  Chas.  II.,  458. 

! Richards,  Edward  H.,  467. 
Richards,  F.  J.,  342. 

Richards,  John  M.,  414. 

Richards,  M.  F.,  77,  346. 

Richards,  Samuel,  348. 

Richardson,  Alvah,  337. 

Richardson,  Clark,  414. 

JRichardson,  C.  T.,  346. 
Richardson,  C.  W.,  152,   414. 

Richardson,  D.  K.,  4S7. 

Richardson  E.  F.,  435. 

jRichardson,  Geo.  A.,  463. 

•  Richardson,  Geo.  H.,  397, 
476. 

Richardson,  Geo.  W.,  402. 

Richardson,   H.   H.,  359. 

Richardson,  Johnson,   414. 

Richardson,  S.  O.,  58. 

Richardson,  Wm.  H.,  shoots 
himself,  62,  350. 

.Richardson,  Wm.  H.,  359. 

.Richardson's  Brigade,  69. 

'Richmond,  Jas.,  448. 

Richmond,   Va.,   95. 

Ricker,  Chas.  W.,  327. 

JRicker,  Geo.  F.,  448. 
.|Ricketts'  Battery,  83,  84,  85. 


506 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Ricketts,   Capt.    Jas.  B.,    64, 

85. 

Riggs,  E.  M.,  359. 
Riggs'    Battery,    178,    180. 
Riley,   Hugh   F.,    350. 
Riley,  Michael,  409. 
Riley,  M.  T.,  379. 
Riley,  Wm.  J.,  402. 
Ring,  G.  W.,  385. 
Rinn,  Samuel,  249,  410. 
Rix,  Asa  W.  S.,  327,  328. 
Roach,  G.  H.,  375. 
Roanoke  Island,  149,  229. 
Robbins,  Andrew,  488. 
Robbing,  Elbridge,  Jr.,  355. 
Robbins,  Jos.  N.,  355. 
Robbins,  S.  W.,  397. 
Roberts,  John  W.,  385,  477. 
Robertson,  Chas.   M.,  420. 
Robertson,  John,  337. 
Robertson,  L.  O.,  488. 
Robertson,  Win.  H.  H.,  477. 
Robie,  Henry  L.,  458. 
Robinson,  Chas.,  458. 
Robinson,  Chas.  H.,  333. 
Robinson,  Chas.  T.,  380,  444. 
Robinson,  Edwin,  443. 
Robinson,  Edwin  H.,  346. 
Robinson,  Frank  T.,  5,  286. 
Robinson,  Frank  T.,  420. 
Robinson,  H.  H.,  381,  385. 
Robinson,  J.  W.,  448. 
Robinson,  Wm.  E.,  360. 
Roby,  Geo.  W.,  350. 
Rochester,  D.  M.,  451. 
Roe,  Chas.  E.,  483. 
Roe,  Lt.  Coniclr.  F.  A.,  148. 
Roe,  Walter  W.,  443. 
Rogers,  Eugene  L.,  467. 
Rogers,  John  S.,  355. 
Rogers,  M.  H.,  397. 
Rogers,  O.  W.,  340,  365. 
Rogers,  T.  G.,  342. 
Romance    in     Rebel     Prison, 

103. 

Rood,   Chas.    H.,   448. 
Rose,  F.  J.,  391. 
Rose,  Jas.  H.,  335. 
Rose,  John  F.,  479. 
Rose,  John  W.,  334. 
Rosebrook,  S.  H.,  432. 
Roulstone,    Edwin   A.,   420. 


Roulstone,     Thos.     R.,     417, 

474. 

Rounds,   H.   F.,  451. 
Rounds,  Ira  F.,  451. 
Roundy,  John  D.,  333. 
Rourke,  Jas.  E.,  402. 
Rowe,  C.  B.,  381. 
Rowe,  Chas.  A.,  337. 
Rowe,  Henry,  488. 
Rowe,  Howard  F.,  455. 
Rowell,  Gideon,  451. 
Roy,  August,  440. 
Rudderham,  Chas.,  452. 
Runyan,  Gen.  Theo.,  64,  69. 
Russell,  Austin  W.,  463. 
Russell,  Chas.,  346,  405. 
Russell,  D.  ().,  405. 
Russell,  Geo.  S.,  464. 
Russell,  Hubbard,  Jr.,  346. 
Russell,  Jeremiah,  Jr.,  435. 
Russell,  John  H.,  452  (2). 
Russell,  Wm.  ().,  448. 
Rust,  Elbridge,  391. 
| Ryan,  J.  J.,  375. 
Ryan,  Thos.,  379. 
Ryan,  Wm.  P.,  350. 

Safford,  Asa,  452. 

Salem,  20,  125. 

Salem,  Mayor  of,  127. 

Salisbury,  X.  C.,  99,  114. 

Salisbury,  Wm.  G.,  467. 
Walter,  Thos.  T.,  339. 

Salter,  Wm.,  339. 
'Salty  stew,  131. 

Sampson,  Geo.     H.,    6,    408, 
409. 

Sampson,   L.  T.,  355. 

Sanborn,  John  F.,  392. 

Sanborn,  John  H.,  409. 
jSanborn,  Tudor,  448. 
iSanderson,  Fred,  458. 
jSandford,  General,  51. 

Sanger,  Chas.  E.,  435. 

Sangster's  Station,  65. 

Sargent,  Andrew  J.,  477. 

Sargent,  M.  H.,  22. 

Saunders,  Sidney,  467. 

Sawtelle,  Wm.  H.,  473. 

Sawyer,  Geo.,  346. 
iSawyer,  John  H.,  6,  422,  471 
479. 

Sawyer,  Leonard  J.,  339. 


Sawyer,  R,  C.,  428,  429. 
Sayers,  James,  409. 
Schillinger,  Benj.  F.,  365,  420. 
Schneider,   Jacob,    350. 
Schouler,  Gen.  Win.,  18,  119, 

255. 

Schromm,  John,  443. 
Schwartz,   Jas.    L.,   420. 
Scoboria,  P.  G.,  402. 
Scott,  Henry,  483. 
Scott,  Gen.  W.,  36,  45,  47. 
Seabury,  J.  W.,  402. 
Searl,  Geo.,  392. 
Seavey,  Albert,  420,  458. 
Seeley,  Montressor,  414,  468. 
Selvey,  Wm.,  337. 
Semons,  F.  A.,  327. 
Sendell,  H.  J.,  397. 
Severn    River,  30. 
Sewall,  Alfred  C.,  477. 
Seward,  Sec.  Wm.  H.,  36. 
Seymour,  Herbert  F.,  477. 
Shanlcy,  Win.,  77,  101,  359. 
Shannon,  John  F.,  452. 
Shannon,  Wm.,  376. 
Sharp,  Wm.,  402. 
Shattuck,  E.  L.,  385. 
Shattuck,  L.  H.,  365. 
Shaw,  Albert,  379. 
Shaw,  Jas.  S.,  77,  101,  342. 
Shaw,  John  G.,  467. 
Shaw,  Jos.  E.,  255,  257. 
;Shaw,  Wm.  E.,  365. 
Sheehan,  C.  H.,  443. 
Sheehan,  John,  379. 
Sheehan,  Timothy,  379. 
Sheep-stealing,  68. 
Shepard,  Chas.  H.,  54,  329. 
Shepard,  L.  J.,  371. 
Sherman,  G.  B.,  346. 
[Sherman,  Geo.  E.,  355. 
Sherman,  Wm.  H.,  333. 
Sherman,  Gen.  W.  T.,  53. 
Shopland,  Frank,  379. 
Shove,  Edward,  452. 
Shute,  A.  M.,  342. 
Shute,  Jas.  G.,  435. 
Shute,  Jas.  M.,  374. 
Shuter's  Hill,  52. 
Sibley,  Mark  X.,  435. 
Signal  Corps  detail,  152. 
Simmons,  S.  B.,  107. 
Simonds,  X.  A.,  365. 


INDEX. 


507 


Simonds,  X.  P.,  477. 
Simonds,  Wm.  F.,  458. 
Simpson,  Jas.  W.,  371. 
Sinclair,  Joe,   6,  249;  his  dog 

250,   253;   380,    386. 
Singer,  John  C.,  440. 
"  Singular  Fad,"  107. 
Skerry,  M.,  145. 
Skerry,  Michael,  403. 
Skinner,  Jacob  H.,  488. 
Slattery,  John  J.,  4(57. 
Slave  pen,  55. 
Slaves  join  the  inarch,  186. 
Sleeper,  Jacob  H.,  347. 
Sleeper,  Jas.  H.,  03,  324. 
Sleepy  Creek,  177. 
Sloe-urn,  Col.  H.  W.,  93. 
Sloe-urn,  S.  P.,  403. 
Sloper,  Henry,  327. 
Sloper,  Win.  A.,  327. 
Small,  D.  A.,  391,  392. 
Smith,  Aug.  E.,  428. 
Smith,  Chas.,  397. 
Smith,  Chas.  H.,  458. 
Smith,  Daniel  F.,  338. 
Smith,  Edward  F.,  458. 
Smith,  F.  B.,  409. 
Smith,  Geo.  W.,  428. 
Smith,  Granville  C.,  464. 
Smith,  H.  J.,  327. 
Smith,  H.  J.,  342. 
Smith,  John  W.,  355. 
Smith,  Jonas  L.,  346. 
Smith,  Jos.,  346. 
Smith,  Lewis,  76,  337. 
Smith,  Xahum  F.,  342. 
Smith,  Xorman,  473. 
Smith,  Rich.  E.,  452. 
Smith,  Robert,  327. 
Smith,  S.  Franklin,  483. 
Smith,  Sanford  A.,  350. 
Smith,  Sidney  L.,  467. 
Smith,  Stephen,  429. 
Smith,  Stephen  F.,  488. 
Smith,  Thos.,  333. 
Smith,  Thos.  G.,  435. 
Snow,  David,  403. 
Snow,  Henry,  350. 
Snow,  Win.,  127. 
Snow,  Win.  F.,  374,  381. 
Snow,  Zoeth,  Jr.,  398. 
Snow  Hill,  309. 
Snyder,  Geo.  W.,  52. 


Somerville,  20. 
iSonnet  on  Bones,  105. 
South  Amboy,  X.  J.,  275. 
South  Framingham,  26. 
South  Reading,  68. 
Souther,  Geo.  G.,  355. 
Southwick,  B.  F.,  387,  449. 
Southwick,  Win.  H.,  392. 
Spaulding,  Wm.,  416,  474. 
Spear,  Charles,  440. 
Spear,  Wm.  H.,  414. 
Speight,  Captain,  28. 
Spencer,  E.  R.,  414. 
Spinney,  R.  M.,  350. 
Spinola,  Ge 

999 


Stevens,  John    P.,    127,    240, 

410. 

jStevens,  John  W.,   387. 
Stevens,  Orin  W.,  414. 
Stevens,  Oscar  F.,  414. 
Stevens,  Samuel  H.,  448. 
Stevens,  Samuel  M.,  343. 
IStevenson,   Col.   T.   G.,    141, 

161,  173,  18(5,  355. 
Stewart,  Chas.  W.,  350. 
Stiles,  Mr.,  111. 
Stiles,  A.  W.,  403. 
Stiles,  Augustus,  453. 
Stiles,  Charles,  453. 
F.  B.,  202,  214,  Stiles,  Chas.  D.,  324. 
Stiles,  S.  D.,  420. 


Spinola's    trip,    213;    Troops  Stiles,  Wm.  W.,  327. 

involved,   214,   215,   216.       Stimpson,  A.  M.,  409. 
Spoerell,  George,  429,  483. 
Spooner,  Stephen,  403. 
Sprague,  Alice  A.,  258. 
Sprague,  Gen.  A.  B.  R.,  258. 
Spring,  Henry  X.,  4(50. 
Stackpole,  Edwin,  A.,  435. 
Stackpole,  Win.  A.,  453. 
Stanley,  Gustavus,  453. 
Stanley,  Harrison,  342. 
Stanley,  John  S.,  435. 
Stanton,  Jacob  C.,  435. 


Staples,  Fort,  414,  415. 
Stark,  Kirk,  34,  35(5. 
Starkey,  Chas.  D.,  429. 
! Starkweather,  J.  F.,  414 


Stimpson,  John  F.,  342. 
Stock,  Henry,  408,  409. 
Stoddard,  Eliot,  4(57. 
Stoddard.  Geo.  G.,   19,  347. 
Stodder,  Jos.   F.,  458. 
Stodder,  Wm.  A.,  454. 
Stokoe.  Robert    II.,  403. 
Stone,   Hev.  A.   L.,   19.V 
Stone.  Chas.  II.,  477. 
Stone,  Gen.  C.  P.,  53. 
Stone,  Col.  E.  F.,  124. 
Stone,  Frank  S.,  448. 
Stone,  F.  T.,  392. 
Stone,  H.  P.,  337. 

, ,  „„  Stone,  Orville  E.,  483. 

•"  Stars  and  Stripes,"  97,  102,  Stone,  Mayor  P.  J.,  247. 

105,    109.  'Stone,  John   E.  357. 

Staten,  E.   H.,  323,  324.  Stone  House,  Old.  70. 

Steamers: — Mississippi,     129,  Stoodley,  Jos.  E.,  420. 
130,  16(5;  Merrimack,    129,  Stout,  Edward,  38(5. 
130,       132;       Scout,       138;  Stow-men,  273. 
Xortherner,  209,  212;  Emi-  Stowe,  A.  F.,  342. 

220.  Stowers,  Thos.  P.,  414. 

488.  jStratton,  Isaac,  483. 

P.,     123,  Stratton,  Isaac  C.,  429. 
Stratton,  J.  L.  X.,  114. 
Strong,  Geo.  C.,  64. 
Strout,  Chas.  W.,  335. 
Studley,  T.  R.,  453. 
Sturtevant,  Geo.  C.  C.,  4(55. 
[Sturtevant,  Geo.  E.,  488. 
Sturtevant,  Cieo.  F.,  386. 
Sudley    Church,  70. 


lie,  212;  Escort 
Stearns,  Elijah  W. 
Stebbins,  Rev.  R 

248. 

Steeds  presented,  55. 
Steele,  Wm.  H.,  342. 
Stephens,  Alfred,  409. 
Stephens,  John  R.,  333. 
Stetson,  Jos.,  350. 
Stevens,  Chas.  E.,  443. 
Stevens,  E.  C.,  420. 
Stevens,  Francis  E.,  464 
Stevens,  George,  443. 


Sudley's  Ford,  (59,  73,  86. 
Sullivan,  Bart.,  350. 


508 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Sullivan,  D.  J.,  375. 

Temple,  Geo.  L.,  429. 

Sullivan,  D.  S.,  443. 

Temple,  Henry  M.,  429. 

Sullivan,  Humphrey,  Jr.,  337. 

Tenney,  Geo.  L.,  443. 

Sullivan,    Thos.    V.,    6,    410, 

Tenney,  W.  E.,  415. 

473. 

Tenney,  Wm.  H.,  483. 

Summaries   of    three-months' 

Testaments  given,  19,  22. 

men,  371. 

Thacher,  Franklin,  401,  403. 

Sumner,  Chas.,  125. 

Thanksgiving,  154,  291. 

Sumner,  Geo.,  110. 

Thatcher,  Thos.  N.,  453. 

Sumner,  John  A.,  357. 

Thayer,  I.  E.,  371. 

Sumner,  J.  A.  P  ,  392 

Thaver,  S.  J.  F.,  386. 

Sumner,  Stephen,  420. 

Thompson,  Chas.,  333. 

Sumner,  Wm.  F.,  356. 

Thompson,  F.  H.,  386. 

"  Sunny  South,"  133,  145. 

Thompson,  G.  A.,  77,  359. 

Swallow,  Thos.  J.,  443. 

Thompson,  Geo.  E.,  464. 

Swan,  Wm.  R.,  11,  334. 

Thompson,  Isaac,  397. 

Sweeney,  C.  H.,  365. 

Thompson,  Jas.  E.,  443. 

Sweeney,  Jas.,  397. 

Thompson,  John  F.,  333. 

Sweet,  Albert  A.,  473. 

Thompson,  John  N.,  359. 

Sweet,  H.  W.,  453. 

Thompson,  Wm.  L.,  387,  449. 

Sweetser,  Capt.  F.  M.,  6,  272, 

Thorpe,  A.  M.,  346. 

484. 

Thurlow,  Stephen  E.,  488. 

Sweetser,  Jas.  W.,  42,  329. 

Tibbets,  A.  W.,  371. 

Sweetser,  Marshall  P.,  484. 

Tibbets,  David  W.,  458. 

Sweetser,  Oliver,  333. 

Tibbetts,  Chas.  H.,  333. 

Sweetser,  Thos.,  333. 

Tibbetts,  Frank  L.,  76,   101, 

Swett,  Jas.  H.,  449. 

333. 

Swett,  Jos.  H.,  392. 

Tibbetts,  Geo.  W.,  443. 

Swift's  Creek,  140. 

Tibbetts,  Phineas  T.,  334. 

Symonds,  B.  R.,  392. 

Tibbitts,  A.  W.,  23,  371. 

Symonds,  Chas.  A.,  388,  453. 

Tidd,  A.  E.,  312. 

Symonds,  N.  A.,  328. 

Tidd,  Horace,  312. 

Tidd,  John  E.,  355. 

Tabor,  N.  Z.,  415. 

Tillson,  Elijah  A.,  488. 

Taft,  Albert,  M.,  448. 

Tilton,  S.  S.,  453. 

Tannatt,  Geo.  S.,  397. 

Tisdale,  Wm.,  467. 

Tarboro,  264. 

Titus,  Daniel  F.,  420. 

Tarboro  march,  137. 

Titus,  Geo.  F.,  477. 

Target-shooting,  297. 

Toby,  Wm.,  357. 

Tay,  Francis  J.,  409. 

Tolman,  Henry  J.,  458,  483. 

Tay,  John  B.,  415. 

Tompkins,  S.  G.,  386. 

Taylor,  Dennis,  415,  473. 

Tood,  Lieut.,  96. 

Taylor,  Henry,  342. 

Toole,  Patrick,  435. 

Taylor,  Jas.  H.,  346. 

Towle,  James,  409. 

Taylor,  Owen,  350. 

Towle,  Sidney,  409. 

Taylor,  Seth  E.,  488. 

Towne,  Chas.  A.,  392. 

Taylor,  Wm.  D.,  421. 

Towne,  Howard  M.,  458. 

Taylor,  W.  F.,  355. 

Townsend,  Edwin  A.,  467. 

Teague,  Wm.  H.,  359. 

Townsend,  Geo.  W.,  329. 

Tebo,  Peter,  464. 

Transcript,   Boston,  26,  27. 

Teel,  Geo.  C.,  392,  453. 

Trappe,  Village  of,  303. 

Teel,  Geo.  E.,  346. 

Trask,  Chas.,  392. 

Teel,  Geo.  M.,  405. 

Trask,  Henry,  359. 

Trask,  S.  P.,  453. 

Treadwell,  Surg.  J.  B.,  278, 
438. 

Trescott,  E.  W.,  465. 

Tripp,  Frank  D.,  449. 

Troops  leaving  for  South  Car 
olina,  195. 

Troup,   Geo.   H.,  440. 

Trowbridge,  Aug.  S.,  422. 

Trowbridge,   James   C.,   483. 

Trumbull,  J.   B.,  397. 

Tuck,    S.    W.,    348. 

Tucker,  Geo.  A.,  444. 

Tucker,    Nathan    T.,    464. 

Tuffts,  R.  W.,  328. 

Tufts,  Albert,  392,  448. 

Tufts,  Aug.,  346. 

Tufts,  Wm.  C.,  473. 

Tupper,  Geo.  F.,  346. 

Turnbull,  Chas.  C.,  458. 

Turner,  Edwin,  117,  381. 

Turner,  J.  H.  R.,  346. 

JTurner,  S.  H.,  77,  346. 

'Turner,  Wm.  J.,  444. 

Tuttle,  H.  O.,  342. 

Twiss,  A.  J.,  333. 

Tyghe,  Joseph,  435. 

Tyler,  Chas.  H.,  448. 

Tyler,  Daniel,  409. 

Tyler,  Gen.  Daniel,  64,  69, 
70,  82,  84. 

Tyler,  Gen.  E.  B.,  310. 

j Tyler,  Wm.    N.,  333. 

iTyree,  John  C.,  444. 

Underbill,  S.  Aug.,  467. 
Underwood,  Granville,  483. 
Uniform,  Cos.  B    and  I,  21. 
Uniform  and  buttons,  289. 
Upton,  Geo.  A.,  392. 
Upton,  Samuel,  397. 
U.  S.  Naval  Academy,  30,  31. 
U.  S.  Treasury  Building,   34, 

36. 
Usher,  J.  F.,  346. 

|"  Vacant  Chair,"   The,   79. 
Vance,   Gen.   Zeb.,   225. 
Van  de  Sande,  John,  365. 
Varrell,  John  H.,  420. 
Vaux,    Wm.    V.,    330. 
Very,    H.    V.,    359. 
Veteran  Organization,  316. 


INDEX. 


509* 


Vibbert,   Albert   H.,   448. 
Viles,  E.  F.,  376. 
Vinal,  Geo.   E.,  467. 
Volunteer    Refreshment    Sa 
loon,  275,   313. 
Vottier,  Alex.  G.,  477. 

Wade,  Jas.  P.,  338. 
Wade,   Martin   V.,  415,  473. 
Wadsworth,  Jas.  S.,  64. 
Walberg,  Frank,  381,  446. 
Walcott,  Geo.  E.,  465. 
Walden,  Win.  H.,  397. 
Walker,  E.  M.,  365. 
Walker,    James,    127,    410. 
Walker,  James  H.,  415,  473. 
Walker,  Judson,  409. 
Walker,  Wm.  H.,  333. 
Walkup,  Jas.  E.,  392. 
Wall,  F.  A.,  398. 
Wallace,  Chas.  E.,  464. 
Wallace,  Geo.  W.,  72,  77,  339. 
Wallace,  H.  D.,  350. 
Wallace,   Kinsley,   365. 
Wallace,  Gen.  Lew,   270,  278, 

304,   308,   311,   312. 
Wallberg,  V.,  6,  231,335,393. 
WTalsh,  John  E.,  440. 
Ward,  Geo.  F.,  473. 
Ward,  John,  397,  454. 
Wardwell,  Cyrus  T.,  77,  101, 

350. 

Wardwell,    D.    J.,    348. 
Wardwell,  D.  K.,  11,  12,  17, 

18,  347. 

Wardwell,   Henry,  453. 
Wardwell,  Henry   F.,  333. 
Wardwell's  Tigers,  17. 
Ware,  Geo.,  355. 
Warland,    Thos.    F.,    355. 
Warner,   L.   D.,   392. 
WTarren,  E.  J.,  328. 
Warren,  H.  M.,  333. 
Warren,  Jos.   G.,   350. 
Warren,   Thos.   A.,   350. 
Washington,   31,   33,   36,   87. 
Washington,  General,  51. 
Washington,  N.  C.,  99,   138, 

140;   Attacked,    207,    209, 

222,  264. 
Washington  to  Bull  Run,  map, 

67. 
Washington's   birthday,   200 


Waterman,  Anthony  A.,  476. 
Waterman,   Frank   O.,   476. 
Waterman,  Jas.  L.,  392,  449. 
Watkins,  Chas.  S.,  342. 
Watson,  J.  C.,  22,  361. 
Watson,  T.  R.,  381,  384. 
Watson,  Wm.  W.,  365. 
Watts,  H.  C.,  355. 
Waugh,  Henry  H.,  449. 
Waugh,  Wm.  V.,  473. 
Way,  Mr.,  19. 
WTebb,  E.  F.,  356. 
Webb,  Mayor  S.  P.,  20. 
Webber,  M.  S.,  328. 
Webber,  W.  B.,  342. 
Webster,  C.  A.,  392. 
Webster,  Geo.,  359. 
Webster,  Geo.  A.,  475. 
Webster,  Geo.  H.,  420. 
Weed,  Geo.  C.,  483. 
Weeks,  Henry  W.,  467. 
Weeks,  Wm.  H.,  328. 
Welch,  Matthew,  375. 
Welch,  Wm.  P.,  453. 
Wellington,  E.  R.,  448. 
Wellington,  Lowell,  Jr.,  356. 
[Wellington,  S.  R.,  448. 
'Wellington,  Goss  &  Co.,  23. 
Welsh,  John,  379. 
Welsh,  Patrick,  379. 
Wemyss,  Chas.  C.,  458. 
jWenharn,  123,  126,  128,  248. 
Wentworth,   L.   E.,   324. 
Wenzell,  Dana  M.,  403. 
Wescott,  Eugene,  365. 
Wessells,    Gen.    H.    W.,    159, 

161,  200,  205. 
West,   Geo.,   328. 
West  Pointer  reproved,  44. 
Weston,   H.   G.,  6,  249,  252, 

258,  415   (2). 
Weston,  R.  H.,  333. 
Wheeler,    Caleb   H.,   356. 
Wheeler,   Edward   S.,    6,    77, 

101,   114,  356. 
Wheeler,   H.   L.,   6,   77,    101, 

114,   356. 
Wheeler,   Jedediah   W.,   457, 

464. 

jWheeler,  John  S.,  473. 
WTheeIer,   Jos.,   356. 
Wheeler,  Lowell  S.,  483. 
.  Wheeler,  Sam.  B.,  328. 


Wheeler,   Wm.    H.,   403. 
Wheeler,   Wm.    N.,   409. 
Whelon,  John  N.,  431. 
Whidden,  A.  H.,  392. 
Whipple,   A.   W.,   64. 
Whitcomb,    David    B.,    429, 

479.' 

Whitcomb,  F.  E.,  249,  386. 
Whitcomb,  Geo.  F.,  22,  365. 
Whitcomb,    Lyman    R.,    440. 
Whitcomb,   O.   A.,    117,  431. 
White,  Chas.  H.,  429. 
White,  Eben,  23,  371. 
White,  Eben,   Jr.,   475. 
White,  Edson  H.,  453. 
White,  Fred  A.,  448. 
White,   Henry   F.,   359. 
White,    Henry   M.,   488. 
White,   Herbert    H.,   488. 
White,  John   M.,  409. 
White,  Jos.  A.,  386. 
White,  N.  H.,  430. 
White,   Thos.,   359. 
White,  Wallace  B.,   350. 
White,  Willard  L.,  488. 
White,  Wm.  H.,  33s. 
Whitehall,    170,    261. 
White  House,  36,  46. 
Whitfield,  Colonel,  262. 
Whiting,  Henry  L.,  420. 
Whiting,  Ithamor,  464. 
Whiting,  John  F.,  6,298,460. 
Whiting,   Sidney  S.,   361. 
Whitney,  Edward,  464. 
Whitney,  Edwin  F.,  197,  420. 
Whitney,  Ceo.  T.,  356. 
Whitney,  J.  Francis,  452,  480. 
Whitney,  John  W.,  464. 
Whitney,  Moses,  45S. 
Whittaker,   Geo.   L.,  468. 
Whittemore,   Henry,  453. 
Whittemore,     Theodosius  J., 

420. 

Whit  ten,  Rufus  R.,  473. 
Whittier,  Wm.  P.,  356. 
Whittle,    Albert    C.,    394. 
Whittle,   Chas.   P.,   335,   393, 

394,  454. 

Whittle,  Geo.  W.,  394. 
Who  was  he?  290. 
"  Why  don't  you  take  it?  " 

40. 
Wiggin    A.  J.,  392. 


510 


FIFTH  REGIMENT,  M.V.M. 


Wiggin,  Isaac  H.,  350. 
Wiggins,   Jas.,   379. 
Wightman,   Mayor,  89. 
Wilcox,  Col.  O.  B.,   53,  64. 
Wilcutt,  Wm.  C.,  350. 
Wild,  Gen.  E.  A.,  244. 
Wild,  Silas  A.,  405. 
Wilder,   C.   B.,  240. 
Wilder,  G.  W.,  464. 
Wilder,  John  W.,  464. 
Wiley,  Benj.   D.,  475. 
Wiley,  Geo.  H.,  357. 
Wiley,  Jos.  E.,  333. 
Wiley,  Samuel,  360. 
Wiley,  Samuel  A.,  420. 
Wiley,  Wm.,  333. 
Wiley,  Z.  T.,  453. 
Wilkins,  E.  L.,  333. 
Wilkins,  Lewis,  483. 
Wilkinson,  Wm.,  403. 
Wilkinson's  Point,  236. 
Willan,  Thos.,  338. 
Willard's  Hotel,  87,  88. 
Willett,  Geo.  A.,  386. 
Williams,  Albert,  386. 
Williams,  Chas.  A.,  328. 
Williams,  D.  O.,  186,  397. 
Williams,  E.  J.,  77,   101,  351 
Williams,  F.  G.,  445  (2),  473 
Williams,  Geo.  F.,  473. 
Williams,  Geo.  W.,  20. 
Williams,  Henry,  444. 
Williams,  Horace  P.,  6,  18,  41 

52,  85,  347. 

Williams,  Samuel,  Jr.,  420. 
Williams,  Samuel  W.,  360. 
Williams,  Thos.,  397. 
Williams,  Wm.  D.,  360. 
Williamson,  Geo.  W.,  405. 
Williamston,  143,  147. 
WTillis,  C.  W.,  409. 
Wills,  Robert,  468. 
Wilson,  Daniel  H.,  435. 
Wilson,  Geo.  E.,  476. 
Wilson,  Henry,  483. 
Wilson,  Senator  Henry,  59. 
Wilson,  Jacob  H.,  360. 
Wilson,  James,  328. 


Alison,  James,  435. 
Alison,  John,  351. 
Alison,  Jos.  W.,  488. 
Alison,  Wm.  H.,  351. 
Winchester,  B.  J.,  392. 
Winchester,  P.  L.,  388. 
Alnder,  John  H.,  96. 
Alng,  Daniel,  398. 
Winn,  Abel  T.,  415. 
Winn,  Jos.  E.,  356. 
Winn,  Otis  K.,  415,  469. 
Winnard,  Edwin,  448. 
Winslow,  E.  E.,  386. 
Winslow,  Zenas,  432. 
Winter,  Wm.,  110. 
Winters,  R.  M.,  397. 
Winthrop,  R.  C.,  120. 
Winthrop,  Theo.,  32. 
Winthrop  Square,  247. 
Wirz,  Capt.  Henry,    96,    101, 

102. 

Woburn,  61,   123,  248. 
Woburn  man  discovered,  224. 
Woburn    Phalanx,    126,    154 

225. 

Wollnier,   John  A.,   464. 
Women  rebels,   149. 
Wood,  Chas.  A.,  423,  483. 
Wood,  Chas.  T.,  416. 
Wood,  Chas.  T.,  483. 
Wood,  Dexter  T.,  409. 
Wood,  Henry,  430. 
WTood,  S.  S.,  352. 
Wood,  Stillman  P.,  483. 
Wood,  Wm.  W.,  6,  193,  425; 

430,   479. 
Woodbury,    Alfred     I.,    430 

483. 

Woodbury,   Henry  A.,  422. 
Woodbury,  H.  W.,  6,  458. 
Woodbury,   P.   O.,   444,   445 

471. 

Woodington,  164,  262. 
Woodman,  Milton   C.,  488. 
Woods,  Chas.  E.,  469. 
Woods,  Fred  H.,  473. 
Woodwell,   Chas.   H.,   386. 


Woolley,   L.   L.,   249,  405. 

Worcester,   26. 

Worcester,  Maj.  Wm.  E.  C., 

209,    236,    273,    312,    372, 

373,  437,  480. 
Word  upon  Exchange,   108. 
Wordell,  Uriah,  453. 
Wordell,  Weston,   453. 
Works,  Geo.  L.,  430. 
Wormwood,  Jas.  G.,  249,  431. 
Worthen,  H.   R.,  338. 
Wotton,  Bernard,  76,  338. 
Wotton,  W.   M.,  444. 
Wright,   Aaron  W.,   430. 
Wright,  Albert  A.,  430,  479. 
Wright,  Chas.  E.,  430,  483. 
Wright,   Daniel,  Jr.,  473. 
Wright,  Edward  E.,  430,  479. 
Wright,   Eugene,  356. 
Wright,  Jos.   R.,  444. 
Wright,  O.  S.,  339. 
Wright,  S.  A.,  367. 
Wright,  Thos.  H.,  458. 
Wyer,   Edwin  F.,   6,   61,   79, 

143,    166,    204,    209,    221, 

225,    257,    273,    279,    286, 

300,  302,  366, 398,  404,  438, 

462,  468. 
Wyman,  B.   F.,  6,  249,  401, 

403,  404. 

Wyman,  Geo.  P.,  342. 
Wyman,  John,  416. 
Wyman,  Jos.  S.,  356. 
Wyman,  L.  F.,  366. 
Wyman,    S.    E.,    410,    469. 

Yankees,   225. 
Yeager,  Chas.  H.,  351. 
Yendley,  Jas.  B.,  338. 
York,  Wm.  S.,  287,  473. 
Young,  Carlos  G.,  468. 
Young,  Frank  A.,  468. 
Young,  Joseph,  366. 
Younie,  John,  386. 

Zoller,  Geo.  H.,  338. 


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